Erma Bombeck Quotes

Most children's first words are 'Mama' or 'Daddy.' Mine were, 'Do I have to use my own money?'

Erma Bombeck

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• Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.

  

  Igor Stravinsky
  • Great
  • Art
  • Steal

• Fear is the major cargo that American writers must stow away when the writing life calls them into carefully chosen ranks.

  

  Pat Conroy
  • Life
  • Writing
  • American

• A novelist can never be his own reader, except when he is ridding his manuscript of syntax errors, repetitions, or the occasional superfluous paragraph.

  

  Patrick Modiano
  • Never
  • Own
  • Errors

• We had to get serious and hit all aspects. We had to graduate. That's what you got to do: reach all people across the nation.

  

  Quavo Migos
  • People
  • You
  • Serious

• The interest on our debt is going to collapse this country.

  

  Ted Yoho
  • Country
  • Interest
  • Debt

• I do interval training, high intensity dance, and yoga. I do run a lot, but more for speed.

  

  Rachele Brooke Smith
  • High
  • Dance
  • Training

• There is simply no room for racial, hurtful language spoken to your colleagues or anyone else.

  

  Pam Bondi
  • Language
  • Colleagues
  • Racial

• Because of the many dimensions of forms of though which you can also put into physical form, you have the possibility to create much which we cannot fashion in the same manner.

  

  Hans Bender
  • You
  • Fashion
  • Create

• One of the joys of being at St. George is you were operating under the radar screen a lot of the time, and you could actually get on with things a lot more quickly and easily.

  

  Gail Kelly
  • Time
  • You
  • More

• Punishment is justice for the unjust.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Justice
  • Punishment
  • Legal

• I think I was very lucky to have grown up with an artist's studio in the house. It was a kind of life that was possible. Yeah, it made it kind of harder because the standards were higher, but there was no pressure.

  

  Caio Fonseca
  • Life
  • Up
  • House

• Private equity funds a substantial amount of new businesses and is the source of capital to rejuvenate failing businesses, which are major drivers of job growth in this economy.

  

  N. Robert Hammer
  • Job
  • Growth
  • Economy

• I don't go out, so I don't get attention from girls. They're not going to have posters of me on their walls. I just try to get on with my life.

  

  Gareth Bale
  • Life
  • Me
  • Attention

• People expect you to change when you become a mother, and of course my priorities changed when I had Violet. She's number one in my life and the best thing that ever happened to me, but I still have fun. I am still myself, but that is made out to seem like I am rebelling against motherhood.

  

  Imelda May
  • People
  • Life
  • She

• The modern artist... is working and expressing an inner world - in other words - expressing the energy, the motion, and other inner forces.

  

  Jackson Pollock
  • World
  • Words
  • Energy

• I don't do the whole, 'Put my name on it, make me famous' thing.

  

  T-Pain
  • Me
  • Famous
  • Name

• I did not expect to encounter what has beset me since my elevation to the presidency. God knows, I have endeavored to fulfill what I considered to be an honest duty, but I have been mistaken; my motives have been misconstrued and my feelings grossly betrayed.

  

  Zachary Taylor
  • God
  • Me
  • Feelings

• A diary is more or less the work of a man of clay whose hands are clumsy and in whose eyes there is no light.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Work
  • Light
  • Eyes

• My priority is having the ability to be creative and to come up with the right decisions and not be fettered. If there are a lot of people involved in decision making, it can become frustrating.

  

  Duncan Jones
  • People
  • Up
  • Decision

• My deranged mother has written another book. This one is called The Bough and is even worse that the others. I refer not to its quality-it exhibits the usual 'coruscating wit' and 'penetrating social observation'-but to the extent to which it utilizes, as a kind of mulch pile, the lives of her children.

  

  Donald Barthelme
  • Children
  • Book
  • Mother

• It just seems that you were talking positively about McDonald's, that they are... attempting this healthy lifestyle, and yet when we're talking right now... it seems that you're saying they need to make more responsibility.

  

  Maria Bartiromo
  • Responsibility

• Man, even now, can do wonders to animals: my cat and dog live together in my house and seem to like it. It may have been one of man's functions to restore peace to the animal world, and if he had not joined the enemy he might have succeeded in doing so to an extent now hardly imaginable.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • World
  • Live
  • May

• According to the people who dearly would love to throw him out of office, Barack Obama was elected to be 'above politics.' He wasn't elected to be president, after all. He was elected as an avatar of American tolerance. His attempts to get himself reelected imply a certain, well, ingratitude.

  

  Charlie Pierce
  • People
  • American
  • Tolerance

• Most children's first words are 'Mama' or 'Daddy.' Mine were, 'Do I have to use my own money?'

  

  Erma Bombeck
  • Children
  • Daddy