Erma Bombeck Quotes

I'm going to stop punishing my children by saying, “Never mind! I'll do it myself.

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• I was thinking of going to London drama schools or to New York, because France didn't accommodate the things I wanted to do in film.

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • Thinking
  • Drama
  • New York

• Fashion is very tough, and we shouldn't forget that before designers were money-makers, they were artists.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Money
  • Fashion
  • Forget

• Part of the reason I sort of shot out like a cannon out of Michigan and left home at such an early age is because I had to feel independent.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • Home
  • Age
  • Independent

• But there's a huge blessing that comes from being a part of a show like 'The Cosby Show' that sets such a high standard of quality - it touched so many people on so many different levels.

  

  Malcolm-Jamal Warner
  • People
  • Different
  • High

• Exercise is the yuppie version of bulimia.

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
  • Exercise
  • Version
  • Bulimia

• People used to say I'm weak in comedy. But, with 'Mahesh Khaelja' and 'Dookudu,' I have proved that I am good at comedy.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Good
  • Comedy
  • Weak

• The textile industry became a huge deal in 19th century America, kind of like the tech industry is today. And that immigrant tradition continues, especially in tech, America's most dominant and dynamic industry today.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • America
  • Today
  • Tradition

• My mom is a therapist, and my dad has a doctorate in psychology, and growing up, I felt 'very understood.'

  

  Rachel Platten
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Dad

• Bullies always have another target.

  

  Karen Handel
  • Always
  • Another
  • Target

• Globalization is exposing new fault lines - between urban and rural communities, for example.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • New
  • Fault
  • Globalization

• The GAO just released a report that said 22 percent of federal programs fail to meet their objectives. The truth is we don't know how taxpayer money is spent in Washington, D.C., which is why I think we ought to put every agency budget up on the Internet for everyone to see.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • Up
  • Money
  • Why

• Boxing's in my genes. I come from a fighting background. My dad and both my uncles were good boxers. I'm blessed with the art of war.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Good
  • Art
  • War

• Without a musket to raise, a barricade to storm, a flag to wave, the question hit me in the face like the cold air: 'Who am I?'

  

  Gary Ackerman
  • Question
  • Storm
  • Flag

• The first movie that I saw was Godzilla and I loved it.

  

  Pam Grier
  • Movie
  • First
  • Loved

• How many more school shootings do we need before we start talking about this as a social problem, and not merely a random collection of isolated incidents?

  

  Jackson Katz
  • School
  • Problem
  • Start

• I love Africa in general South Africa and West Africa, they are both great countries.

  

  Paris Hilton
  • Great
  • Countries
  • West

• I'm not too interested in books about India.

  

  Beatrice Wood
  • Books
  • India
  • Too

• I am definitely going to college!

  

  Adam Hicks
  • College
  • Going

• We have to get better at that. All of the Stanley Cup winning teams throughout the past few seasons, when they needed to play defense, they did it. If you can play defense, that's when you know it's game over.

  

  Steve Yzerman
  • Game
  • Play
  • Defense

• Brother Cannon remarked that people wondered how many wives and children I had. He may inform them that I shall have wives and children by the million, and glory, and riches, and power, and dominion, and kingdom after kingdom, and reign triumphantly...

  

  Brigham Young
  • People
  • Children
  • Kingdom

• Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent.

  

  Marilyn vos Savant
  • Up
  • Giving

• I'm going to stop punishing my children by saying, “Never mind! I'll do it myself.

  

  Erma Bombeck
  • Mind
  • Children