Erma Bombeck Quotes

My second favorite household chore is ironing. My first being hitting my head on the top bunk bed until I faint.

Erma Bombeck

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• I have 179 children that I take care of full-time: close to 40 in Uganda and the rest in Sudan.

  

  Sam Childers
  • Time
  • Children
  • Rest

• I have never found out that there was in my family an artist or anyone interested in the arts or sciences, and I have never been sufficiently interested in my 'family tree' to bother. My father and mother had come to America on one of those great waves of immigration that followed persecution and pogroms in Czarist Russia and Poland.

  

  Jacob Epstein
  • Great
  • Family
  • America

• When I was in high school, I started getting into Japanese wrestling. For me to watch those matches, I had to order VHS tapes through catalogues, and these tapes were, like, $20 each.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • School
  • Wrestling
  • Matches

• My books have contradictions all the time - and people are fine with that.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • People
  • Time
  • Books

• There are certain things you don't discuss with Ansel, especially if you don't agree.

  

  Imogen Cunningham
  • You
  • Things
  • Agree

• Wear comfortable clothes when you fly; my preference is T-shirt and jeans.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Fly
  • Clothes
  • Jeans

• I ate better in Liberia than I did in Ohio.

  

  Hailey Gates
  • Better
  • Did
  • Ohio

• The corporate right fires up the religious right against gay marriage and abortion and uses their votes to push their deregulation and tax cuts for the rich. It's an old trick. The House of Saud has the same arrangement with the Mullahs in Saudi Arabia.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Up
  • House
  • Marriage

• You have to be quite stupid to act.

  

  Rachel Weisz
  • You
  • Stupid
  • Act

• Poor people have more fun than rich people, they say; and I notice it's the rich people who keep saying it.

  

  Jack Paar
  • People
  • Fun
  • Saying

• I'd never hurt another person.

  

  Adam Carolla
  • Never
  • Hurt
  • Person

• I'll always take Scrabble and chess if I'm going filming. But I do have the Scrabble dictionary, which can be infuriating for other players.

  

  Saffron Burrows
  • Always
  • Chess
  • Take

• I got irritated with people asking us the same questions. Like, 'Are you a real band?' Journalists wanted to slay us, tried to cut us down, and I just started caring less and less about doing interviews. With Facebook and Instagram, you kind of don't need to anyway. But now and again, we'll do something when there's new information to share.

  

  Yolandi Visser
  • People
  • Real
  • Band

• I remember when I got into Juilliard - which was just crazy to me, that I would be studying at a school like that - the choice to cut all my hair off was really symbolic for me.

  

  Samira Wiley
  • School
  • Remember
  • Crazy

• I've gone to Detroit. I've been to Ferguson; I've been to Baltimore, because I want our party to be bigger, better and bolder, and I'm the only one that leads Hillary Clinton in five states that were won by President Obama. I'm a different kind of Republican.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Different
  • Want
  • Party

• I'm a boxer who believes that the object of the sport is to hit and not get hit.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Hit
  • Object
  • Boxer

• This sight was terrible, more terrible than words convey, for words are cowards as men are, and hide things as men do.

  

  Tanith Lee
  • Men
  • Words

• Sanjay Leela Bhansali brings out the best in me, both personally and professionally. I think we have a Karmic connection and I hope he'll agree!

  

  Rani Mukerji
  • Hope
  • Connection

• The best way for women to acquire knowledge is from conversation with a father, a brother, or a friend, in the way of family intercourse and easy conversation, and by such a course of reading as they may recommend.

  

  Anna Letitia Barbauld
  • Women
  • Family
  • May

• You look at, like, a 'People' magazine, which used to be a really good, you know, nice magazine you could go to for real stories. It wasn't like a 'Star' or an 'US Weekly' and they have somebody with plastic surgery on the cover, Heidi Montag. And it's obviously what consumers want, because why else would they be doing it?

  

  Chelsea Handler
  • People
  • Good
  • Real

• Have you noticed that if you leave the laundry in the hamper long enough, it's ready to wear again?

  

  Elayne Boosler
  • Long
  • Wear
  • Laundry

• You may lose your wife, you may lose your dog, your mother may hate you. None of those things matter. What matters is that you achieve success and become free. Then you can do whatever you like.

  

  Kevin O'Leary
  • May
  • Mother
  • Success

• Well, I realized finally that all of the hard work paid off.

  

  David Naughton
  • Work

• My second favorite household chore is ironing. My first being hitting my head on the top bunk bed until I faint.

  

  Erma Bombeck
  • Family
  • Parenting
  • Chores