Erma Bombeck Quotes
The odds of going to the store for a loaf of bread and coming out with only a loaf of bread are three billion to one.
Quotes to Explore
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I learned during all my career to enjoy suffering.
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Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery.
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It is annoying to be honest to no purpose.
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Attraction doesn't stop when a child is born. It's the opposite. Being a mum and dad makes you even sexier.
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Science does not know its debt to imagination.
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Definition, rationality, and structure are ways of seeing, but they become prisons when they blank out other ways of seeing.
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We have plenty of technologies we could use to destroy the planet, and we don't. There's more love on this planet than hate; there's more creativity than destructive power.
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I always have the impression that I write the same book.
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I never discuss discussions.
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Any little touch a defender can make on me when I'm in the air literally moves me. On the ground, I can use my muscle, but in the air, it's harder to fight that off.
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I got my own sound; nobody sounds like me.
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I love outdoor winter activities like snow tubing and snowball throwing.
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I need to put the right things in my body before and after I work out, so I end every workout with some sort of protein shake to help me get the most out of my training.
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All our forms are unique - movies, music and literature - and you have to leave the person who is doing it to do their best.
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I do boxing; I do a little jiu jitsu, which I am obsessed with.
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If you think too-big-to-fail banks are not worthy of investment because of their impossible-to-read balance sheets, well then, don't buy them.
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I have always been terrified of the death of my parents. I never knew if I could count on myself. I never knew if that would send me over the edge.
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What can you do if they have slapped you with a legal notice? You have to reply. For all you know, they have taken you to jail or something.
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My life is a fairy tale. You could not make it up.
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Instead of buying into the global agenda, which is using food as just industrial stuff, we would say we view food as biological, a living thing, that belongs in smaller communities.
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So much of the world's suffering results from the sinful action or inaction of ourselves and others. For example, people look at a famine and wonder where God is, but the world produces enough food for each person to have 3,000 calories a day. It's our own irresponsibility and self-centeredness that prevents people from getting fed.
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The people who are out to destroy the environment think they're going to get away with it. Are they breathing different air than we're breathing? Are they eating different food? I mean, where do they think they're going to go? What do they think is going to be better than what they have destroyed? I just don't get it.
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The odds of going to the store for a loaf of bread and coming out with only a loaf of bread are three billion to one.
