Erma Bombeck Quotes

A kitchen without an ironing board? Are you kidding? It's un-American. It's like Simon without Garfunkel.

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• It's very scary to me that people actually think we should just follow our leaders. If we can't learn from our history, we're nowhere.

  

  Natalie Maines
  • People
  • History
  • Learn

• I think comedy is one of the hardest things to do.

  

  Faith Ford
  • Think
  • Comedy
  • Things

• I think my novel, 'Walden Two,' has made people stop and look at the culture they have inherited and wonder if it is the last word or whether it can be changed.

  

  B. F. Skinner
  • People
  • Culture
  • Stop

• Today, currently, business owners can go out and find out if the person they are hiring is eligible to work here or if they are not. We need to think about how we are impacting workers.

  

  Gary Miller Bad Brains
  • Work
  • Business
  • Today

• I don't like fashion. I don't like art. I do like smashing up expensive things.

  

  Wendy O. Williams
  • Up
  • Art
  • Fashion

• It's not 2038 that Social Security is bankrupt. It's now.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Security
  • Social
  • Now

• The true delight is in the finding out rather than in the knowing.

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • True
  • Knowing
  • Finding

• In all my life, I have never been free. I have never been able to do anything with freedom, except in the field of my writing.

  

  Langston Hughes
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Free

• I like doing my makeup myself! It's a hobby of mine. I like to play around. I've learned all the best tricks from the pros!

  

  Natasha Poly
  • Best
  • Myself
  • Makeup

• I never quite toed the line.

  

  Dan Stevens
  • Never
  • Line
  • Quite

• The problem with motor neurone disease is they don't know when it starts. People go into hospital having fallen but get wrapped up and sent away, unless they're seen by an incredibly astute doctor. It is only when several things begin to go wrong that it'll be diagnosed.

  

  Eddie Redmayne
  • People
  • Up
  • Problem

• You get tragedy where the tree, instead of bending, breaks.

  

  Ludwig Wittgenstein
  • Tree

• I am very much obliged to my dear little George for his message - for his love at least; his duty, I suppose, was only in consequence of some hint of my favourable intentions towards him from his father or mother. I am sincerely rejoiced, however, that I ever was born, since it has been the means of procuring him a dish of tea.

  

  Jane Austen
  • Mother
  • Father
  • Tea

• When your kids are their hungriest, put out raw vegetables and dip - simple. It takes two seconds.

  

  Andie MacDowell
  • Kids
  • Simple

• The kinds of shows that seem to work now, the comedy shows, are those which require very little attention. They're superficial and I like articulate comedy.

  

  Mary Tyler Moore
  • Work
  • Attention
  • Comedy

• Millennials don't go to rallies.

  

  Alexandra Petri

• I've been picked on my whole entire life, and I feel like I started the IAmMoreThan campaign on Instagram to try to find other people who have been bullied and totally overcame it and did something amazing with it.

  

  Kylie Jenner
  • People
  • Life
  • Amazing

• Help us to recognize your voice, help us not to be allured by the madness of the world, so that we may never fall away from you, O Lord Jesus Christ.

  

  Albrecht Durer
  • World
  • May
  • Help

• Perhaps because my relationship with my father went through such a long, bumpy time, it's been very important for me to work to try to keep lines of communication open between my sons and myself to try to avoid my father's mistakes. At least if you're making mistakes, make different mistakes.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Time
  • Work
  • Different

• When you are older, you will learn that the first and foremost thing which any ordinary person does is nothing.

  

  Eliezer Yudkowsky

• Good food and a warm kitchen are what makes a house a home. I always tried to make my home like my mother's, because Mom was magnificent at stretching a buck when it came to decorating and food. Like a true Italian, she valued beautification in every area of her life, and I try to do the same.

  

  Rachael Ray
  • Life
  • Good
  • Home

• Sitting around our kitchen table from a very early age on, we talked politics, and we talked policy. Never once can I ever remember my dad saying, 'Go away, this is an adult conversation.'

  

  Cheri Bustos
  • Remember
  • Age
  • Dad

• A kitchen without an ironing board? Are you kidding? It's un-American. It's like Simon without Garfunkel.

  

  Erma Bombeck
  • Kitchen
  • Boards