Erma Bombeck Quotes

Cats invented self-esteem.

Erma Bombeck

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• In China, a lot of the opening up of private entrepreneurship is happening because women are starting businesses, small businesses, faster than men.

  

  Hanna Rosin
  • Up
  • Men
  • Women

• I've never managed to keep a journal longer than two weeks.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Never
  • Two
  • Journal

• All I want to do is get back to a principle-based Congress.

  

  Dan Webster
  • Want
  • Back
  • Congress

• I've seen my parents dragged through the mud. But I wouldn't be the person I am today without them.

  

  Samira Wiley
  • Today
  • Parents
  • Person

• Where I'm from is like 'Hustle & Flow' versus '8 Mile.' It's that really grimy, box-Chevy, dope-boy, working-class music.

  

  Yelawolf
  • Music
  • Boy
  • Flow

• In the Jewish tradition, there is at the same time Jerusalem in the heavens and Jerusalem on the ground. Jerusalem is a living city, but also the heart, the soul of the Jewish people and the state of Israel.

  

  Yitzhak Rabin
  • People
  • Time
  • Heart

• I'm just going to go live life. I'm going to go enjoy life. I have nothing left to hide. I am kind of a free person, a free soul.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • Life
  • Live
  • Soul

• There are several very good websites which describe the details of preparedness planning for citizens.

  

  Irwin Redlener
  • Good
  • Planning
  • Details

• School choice is the civil rights issue of the 21st century.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • School
  • Choice
  • Civil Rights

• People are at their happiest if they are true to themselves. I think that applies to their chosen profession, friends and relationships. It goes for your health too. If you are true to yourself, it seems to me everything should work out pretty well.

  

  Bebe Neuwirth
  • People
  • Work
  • Friends

• The biggest battle that I have is being a woman in the world. That takes center stage for me.

  

  Zoe Saldana
  • World
  • Me
  • Woman

• The greater, far the greater number of those who rave and rail, and inquire and accuse, neither suspect nor fear, nor care for the publick; but hope to force their way to riches, by virulence and invective, and are vehement and clamorous, only that they may be sooner hired to be silent.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • May
  • Hope
  • Fear

• Every time you smile, I smile And every time you shine, I'll shine for you.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Time
  • Smile
  • Shine

• That is why a criminal trial is not a search for truth. Scientists search for truth. Philosophers search for morality. A criminal trial searches for only one result: proof beyond a reasonable doubt.

  

  Alan Dershowitz
  • Why
  • Truth
  • Doubt

• My brother was 13 when people started telling me that he was a 'hipster.' I was 11 and thought it was so stressful, like, 'How do you not be called that?'

  

  Frankie Cosmos
  • People
  • Brother
  • Hipster

• I still have a sweet tooth, so I bake a lot, but I'd much rather have one of my sweet potato brownies than a processed chocolate bar.

  

  Ella Woodward
  • Sweet
  • Chocolate

• I grew up in the '70s and '80s, at a time that I'd argue was the absolute golden age of American popular culture. Because not only did we have all of the fantastic new stuff in print and on screens, but we had a constant supply of everything that came before, as well.

  

  Chris Roberson
  • Up
  • Time
  • American

• There's not a pill or an injection that's going to give me, going to give any player the hand-eye coordination to hit a baseball.

  

  Mark McGwire
  • Hand
  • Player
  • Baseball

• We can trace things back to the earlier stages of the Big Bang, but we still don't know what banged and why it banged. That's a challenge for 21st-century science.

  

  Martin Rees
  • Why
  • Science
  • Challenge

• In 1949, the country of Palestine was partitioned after the war in such a way that the State of Israel-proper consisted of 78 percent of this country of Palestine. What was left to the Arabs was 22 percent, the West Bank and the Gaza Strip.

  

  Uri Avnery
  • Country
  • War
  • Israel

• Sometimes when I'm healthier on a big day, I feel better about myself. If I eat terribly and I don't sleep well and I drink too much - three or four or five days in a row - it really catches up to me. It's good to have one fun day, as I call it, whether it be a Saturday, a Sunday, a Monday. It doesn't matter.

  

  Molly Sims
  • Sometimes
  • Matter
  • Saturday

• My ginger tabby cat Oscar - he's got his own passport - he comes everywhere with me.

  

  Ashley Madekwe
  • Cat

• Cats invented self-esteem.

  

  Erma Bombeck
  • Cat
  • Esteem