Erma Bombeck Quotes

Those magazine dieting stories always have the testimonial of a woman who wore a dress that could slipcover New Jersey in one photo and thirty days later looked like a well-dressed thermometer.

Erma Bombeck

Quotes to Explore

We are all afraid for our confidence, for the future, for the world. That is the nature of the human imagination. Yet every man, every civilization, has gone forward because of its engagement with what it has set itself to do.

Jacob Bronowski
- World
- Nature
- Future
The biggest difference between L.A. and Edmonton was that instead of people looking at me I was looking at them.

Wayne Gretzky
- People
- Me
- Difference
The secret of my influence has always been that it remained secret.

Salvador Dali
- Power
- Always
- Influence
What we see today is an American economy that has boomed because of policies and developments of the 1950s and '60s: the interstate-highway system, massive funding for science and technology, a public-education system that was the envy of the world and generous immigration policies.

Fareed Zakaria
- World
- American
- Today
I once saw an elaborate landscape in a gallery, drawn in pencil, that took my breath away. Then I realized the artist probably didn't have enough confidence to use a pen.

Garry Shandling
- Artist
- Confidence
- Pen
My parents had to go to Ohio to get married in 1965 because it was still illegal in Mississippi. My white father and black mother.

Natasha Trethewey
- Mother
- Father
- Parents