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

• What I want to say is that nobody is unbeatable. There's a kid out there who probably wants to beat me. I train hard and try to be the best that I can be, but I don't disrespect my opponents. I am not disillusioned, either.

  

  Chad le Clos
  • Disrespect

• For what we engage, we transform. And what we engage with our hearts is transformed forever.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Forever
  • Transform
  • Engage

• For all their incoherence and senseless rage, their message is attractive to those layers of the population who yearn for some order in their lives. If the fanatics promise to feed them and educate their children they are prepared to forgo the delights of CNN and BBC World.

  

  Tariq Ali
  • World
  • Children
  • Promise

• We are battling fanatics who kidnap and behead civilians and shoot fleeing children in the back. There can be no dialogue with such people, and the American people understand this.

  

  Kay Bailey Hutchison
  • People
  • Children
  • American

• To educate children is not merely to provide for their material, or even their intellectual life, but to assure them of the sympathy of their parents, to inspire them with confidence and the certainty that there is always one place where they can unburden their hearts and forget their pains and sorrows, trivial though these may ofttimes appear to us.

  

  Alfred Dreyfus
  • Children
  • Confidence
  • Educate

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

  

  Erma Bombeck
  • Children
  • Daddy