Erma Bombeck Quotes

Some say our national pastime is baseball. Not me. It's gossip.

Erma Bombeck

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• Whoever sets any bounds for the reconstructive power of the religious life over the social relations and institutions of men, to that extent denies the faith of the Master.

  

  Walter Rauschenbusch
  • Life
  • Men
  • Power

• As a child, I was hyper, I was a clown and I was sensitive. Today I'm all of the above, except I've refrained from bouncing off the walls.

  

  Nadine Velazquez
  • Today
  • Child
  • Walls

• The goal of physiological research is functional nature.

  

  Walter Rudolf Hess
  • Nature
  • Goal
  • Research

• The grandchildren should not bear the debts of the grandparents.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Should
  • Grandparents
  • Grandchildren

• I remember feeling that Michael was extremely sensitive when it came to that moment. Most directors are and they usually rely, at least in my experience, on the actress to take over. And Michael is a gentleman.

  

  Madeleine Stowe
  • Experience
  • Remember
  • Feeling

• I didn't know I wanted to do films until I started to do them. Very few films are made in Mexico and film-making belonged to a very specific group, a clique.

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • Know
  • Group
  • Mexico

• Stop doing things that waste time. Don't replace time with your family or things that you need to do. I needed to put together two fantasy teams this weekend because that's something I enjoy, but I did stop playing Nintendo Wii for hours on end.

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
  • Time
  • Family
  • Together

• My generation's parents told their children, 'Become an accountant, a lawyer, or an engineer; that will give you a solid foothold in the middle class.' But these jobs are now being sent overseas. So in order to make it today, you have to do work that's hard to outsource, hard to automate.

  

  Dan Pink
  • Work
  • Children
  • Today

• John Paul was the first modern pope to grow up in a secular culture: He attended public schools, danced with girls - indeed, as a teenager he had a crush on a beautiful Jewish girl who fled his hometown just ahead of the arrival of the Germans.

  

  Carl Bernstein
  • Up
  • Beautiful
  • Girl

• I always knew I wanted to work in entertainment, but I actually really wanted to be a singer more than an actress.

  

  India de Beaufort
  • Work
  • Entertainment
  • Singer

• Just like my father, I've always loved education. In school I was a member of the honor society.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • School
  • Father
  • Society

• My parents were keen for me to have the education they themselves never had. They weren't able to guide me towards particular books, but they encouraged me to read, which I did, randomly and compulsively.

  

  Ian Mcewan
  • Parents
  • Education
  • Me

• I think the truth is always simple. It has pretty much got to be. It needs to be simple enough for a child to understand. Otherwise it'd be too late. By the time you figured it out it would be too late.

  

  Cormac McCarthy
  • Time
  • Truth
  • Pretty

• I'm the oldest and I've got two sisters.

  

  Lisa Snowdon

• I've felt real pain, and sometimes I channel the exhale coming out of that to write, and those are the songs that give me the most power and the most strength.

  

  Jillian Rose Banks
  • Real
  • Power
  • Pain

• There are so many things that have to go right for a movie to be good that it's a miracle whenever one is.

  

  Alessandro Nivola
  • Good
  • Movie
  • Miracle

• I think Janeane Garofalo is incredibly funny, and I love Dennis Miller.

  

  Kristen Johnston
  • Funny

• My sweetest hope is to lose hope.

  

  Pierre Corneille
  • Hope

• How did it happen that their lips came together? How does it happen that birds sing, that snow melts, that the rose unfolds, that the dawn whitens behind the stark shapes of trees on the quivering summit of the hill? A kiss, and all was said.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Together
  • Kiss
  • Rose

• The things I was allowed to experience, the people I was able to call friends, teammates, mentors, coaches and opponents, the travel, all of it, are far more than anything I ever thought possible in my lifetime.

  

  Curt Schilling
  • People
  • Experience
  • Friends

• I'm a sports-watcher. I played football and baseball, coached baseball. So I watch those things.

  

  Phil Jackson
  • Football
  • Sports
  • Baseball

• My dad introduced me to baseball. Then one of my friends asked if I could play on a team; my dad said I could, and I just fell in love with the game.

  

  Bert Blyleven
  • Friends
  • Game
  • Team

• Some say our national pastime is baseball. Not me. It's gossip.

  

  Erma Bombeck
  • Baseball
  • Gossip