Erma Bombeck Quotes

There's something wrong with a mother who washes out a measuring cup with soap and water after she's only measured water in it.

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• I look for someone whose upbringing was somewhat similar to mine because they can understand me - love for the family and everything else. You see someone's relationship with their parents, and you realize what that person's going to be like as a parent.

  

  Maksim Chmerkovskiy
  • Family
  • Love
  • Parents

• Dried porcini add a substantial, deep flavour to otherwise more neutral vegetables. I use them in risottos, mashed roots and winter soups.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Deep
  • Winter
  • Roots

• Ted Kennedy is the only person alive who might know more than we do about Chappaquiddick, and he may not.

  

  Adam Clymer
  • May
  • Know
  • Alive

• Almost all of us growing up have played baseball on some level. It has an inside track with people. It has a unifying effect.

  

  Vin Scully
  • People
  • Up
  • Growing

• I think when you're a TV presenter, you have to have a reason for doing it, and a lot of them have been around a long time and grafted for that. The reason why it works with me on 'The Xtra Factor' is because I was a contestant on it, and I have a relationship with the viewers at home.

  

  Olly Murs
  • Time
  • Long
  • Why

• Human beings are at their core defined by what they worship rather than primarily by what they think, know, or believe. That is bound up with the central Augustinian claim that we are what we love.

  

  Dallas Willard
  • Believe
  • Think
  • Human

• When I'm working, even though it's sometimes challenging and difficult, there's still no place I would rather be.

  

  Dakota Fanning
  • Sometimes
  • Place
  • Working

• I love acting. Acting is a true love of mine, acting and math. Although they are both creative, they use very different sides of your brain. And I love both. Acting is my first love, and that's my main career, it really is.

  

  Danica McKellar
  • True
  • Career
  • Brain

• One of the Republicans' major products is dream making. People are dying to get into this country... not out of it.

  

  J. C. Watts
  • People
  • Country
  • Dream

• I love scoring for the fans, for the team, for myself. That's not to say that I won't pass if I see a teammate in a better scoring position. But I like to score.

  

  Patrick Kane
  • Like
  • Fans
  • Position

• The nature of this melancholy becomes clearer, once one asks the question, with whom does the historical writer of historicism actually empathize. The answer is irrefutably with the victor. Those who currently rule are however the heirs of all those who have ever been victorious. Empathy with the victors thus comes to benefit the current rulers every time.

  

  Walter Benjamin
  • Time
  • Nature
  • Question

• The good thing about feature films is that the budgets tend to scale.

  

  Burnie Burns
  • Good

• The writing process, it's too mysterious to try and describe.

  

  Mick Jones Foreigner
  • Writing
  • Mysterious

• Both the Left and the Right need to connect as people rather than as political entities.

  

  Charlie Sykes
  • People
  • Political

• So many people are accustomed to written information that you really have to have a few more bells and whistles in this day and age.

  

  Chris Bell Big Star
  • People
  • Age

• Whenever I write, I try and approach my stories from some kind of universal theme or idea or emotion.

  

  Jeff Nichols

• We are constantly under lots of pressure, so I take lots of time to recover and do all the things I need for my body to be in the perfect state to compete the next day.

  

  Ana Ivanovic
  • Time
  • Perfect

• I wasn't concerned with the money stuff; I only wanted to play football.

  

  Drew Busby
  • Money
  • Football

• Critics... They're like traffic cops. They say what they have to say, then leave, and another guy moves in ,and he has his say - and it's often just the opposite. The result is either critical acclaim or critical murder, and neither has any bearing on my music or direction.

  

  Jeff Buckley
  • Music
  • Guy

• Temporary tax cuts don't create permanent confidence, nor permanent jobs.

  

  Mark McKinnon
  • Confidence

• I, for my part, acknowledge another precept which says that man must deal the final blow to those whose downfall is destined by God.

  

  Adolf Hitler
  • God
  • Blow
  • Acknowledge

• You're either a goddess ... or a doormat.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Goddess
  • Doormat

• I want you to see me naked and performing one or two dozen mad acts, which will take me less than half an hour, because if you have seen them with your own eyes, you can safely swear to any others you might wish to add.

  

  Miguel de Cervantes
  • Wish
  • Mad
  • Performing

• There's something wrong with a mother who washes out a measuring cup with soap and water after she's only measured water in it.

  

  Erma Bombeck
  • Fun
  • Mother
  • Water