Erma Bombeck Quotes

Maybe age is kinder to us than we think. With my bad eyes, I can't see how bad I look, and with my rotten memory, I have a good excuse for getting out of a lot of stuff.

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• Most importantly, nothing has happened to change my conviction that freedom and the love of liberty remain the essential defining attributes of our national character as a people.

  

  Ibrahim Babangida
  • People
  • Love
  • Character

• One city can look at other cities relative to their city and learn something. It's a matter of sharing the patterns of what exists in one society based on landscape or cultural values versus other cities.

  

  Jack Dangermond
  • Society
  • City
  • Values

• Every European goes on the streets and sees medieval churches. Not if you live in Indianapolis.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Live
  • You
  • Streets

• Be generous to the poor orphans and those in need. The man to whom our Lord has been liberal ought not to be stingy. We shall one day find in Heaven as much rest and joy as we ourselves have dispensed in this life.

  

  Saint Ignatius
  • Life
  • Day
  • Joy

• Music is the biggest tool of revolution - the best way to reach out to the youth and involve them. If you can't contribute to the world with your art, I don't see the meaning of life.

  

  Kailash Kher
  • Life
  • World
  • Music

• For the highest exercise of judicial duty is to subordinate one's personal pulls and one's private views to the law of which we are all guaradians - those impersonal convictions that made a society a civilized community, and not the victims of personal rule.

  

  Felix Frankfurter
  • Society
  • Law
  • Community

• The long and winding road that leads to your door Will never disappear, I've seen that road before it always leads me here, Leads me to your door.

  

  Paul McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings
  • Long
  • Road
  • Door

• These stories get made up, and I don’t know from where. I have no idea. I didn’t make that one up - sometimes I make my own stories up - but I didn’t make that one up.

  

  Michael Lee Aday
  • Up

• I like it when things are where they're supposed to be.

  

  Matt Lauer

• Joy comes from places you least expect it. It's usually the simple things, like watching my son play basketball or going through Central Park when the blossoms are blooming.

  

  Dave Gahan Depeche Mode
  • Simple
  • Joy
  • Son

• As a director, just to be able to jump in to do something that's different, and to explore comedy and be challenged by that, is great. Some directors never get that opportunity.

  

  David Leitch
  • Great
  • Different
  • Opportunity

• The national team comes before everything.

  

  Lorrie Fair
  • Team

• We've been working with Paul Bettner and the Playful team since the beginning of Oculus. Paul was one of, I think, seven $5,000 Kickstarter backers.

  

  Brendan Iribe
  • Team
  • Beginning

• I love the digital camera because it makes shooting easier and economical. I shoot fast, and I can shoot a lot. I shoot rehearsal; I just keep on shooting nonstop.

  

  Anurag Kashyap

• I've tried to approach environmentalism the same way I do my climbing: by setting small, concrete goals that build on each other.

  

  Alex Honnold
  • Small
  • Goals

• A writer falls in love with an idea and gets carried away.

  

  Doris Lessing

• To play a Punjabi guy in 'Rab se Sohna Isshq,' I had to put on muscle.

  

  Ashish Sharma
  • Guy

• At various points, in big ways and small, we get knocked down. If we stay down, grit loses. If we get up, grit prevails.

  

  Angela Duckworth
  • Up
  • Small
  • Grit

• I know I don't go looking for directors. I always wonder why they chose me.

  

  Ciaran Hinds
  • Why
  • Wonder

• Actually, I never thought of me being president of Brazil. First of all, I'm not a politician. I never have been, and I think I'm a very unlikely person for this kind of job because of my frankness. I've never dealt with political parties. I have no connections with political parties. So, I don't think so.

  

  Joaquim Barbosa
  • Job
  • Political

• Losing the ability to make these distinctions is one sign of what psychoanalyst William Niederland called “soul murder.” Erasing awareness and cultivating denial are often essential to survival, but the price is that you lose track of who you are, of what you are feeling, and of what and whom you can trust.

  

  Bessel van der Kolk
  • Trust
  • Psychoanalysts
  • Soul Murder

• The move to hide aging is sort of sad. But it's a wonderful thing to celebrate our aging.

  

  Jesse Ball
  • Sad

• I first met Jimmy Page in London in 1961, and he was listening to James Burton, Scotty Moore and Cliff Gallup with Gene Vincent, as was I ... these were the rock and roll guys who really sparked our interest in the guitar, and later we delved into other things and went different directions ... during my time with Eric Clapton, we talked about what we'd listened to early on, and he was a huge fan of Chuck Berry and Jerry Lee Lewis

  

  Albert Lee
  • Music
  • Different
  • Interest

• Maybe age is kinder to us than we think. With my bad eyes, I can't see how bad I look, and with my rotten memory, I have a good excuse for getting out of a lot of stuff.

  

  Erma Bombeck