Erma Bombeck Quotes

I firmly believe kids don't want your understanding. They want your trust, your compassion, your blinding love and your car keys, but you try to understand them and you're in big trouble.

Erma Bombeck

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• If I were the president, I would tape everything that is said around me and what I said, because we know how sometimes things get misconstrued.

  

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• If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.

  

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• I'm very ambitious, but I also love myself - which means I try to take care of myself.

  

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• The problem of distinguishing prime numbers from composite numbers and of resolving the latter into their prime factors is known to be one of the most important and useful in arithmetic.

  

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• So if I get these actors for 30% of their price by coming in so late with an offer when they know they are not getting another offer then I do it this way.

  

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• The nearest approach I have ever seen to the symmetry of ancient sculpture was among the Arab tribes of Ethiopia. Our Saxon race can supply the athlete, but not the Apollo.

  

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• Probably I understand very much the people who rise against injustice.

  

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• I'm for people bettering themselves, no matter who they are and where they are, doing all they can to be all they can be.

  

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• If you're looking for the safe choice, you shouldn't be supporting a black guy named Barack Obama to be the next leader of the free world.

  

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• Let us learn from the lessons of September 11 and not wait for a major strike before we act. We must work together - Democrats and Republicans, Congress and the White House, government and the private sector - to make our country a safer and more prosperous place.

  

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• I guess I'm a bit of a romantic.

  

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• There is only one way to achieve happiness on this terrestrial ball, and that is to have either a clear conscience or none at all.

  

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• I was in Congress for six months, and they put me on blood pressure medication. I flew helicopters in combat and I was fine, and I survived 13 months in recovery in the hospital... I got to Congress, and six months later I'm on blood pressure medication. Fourteen months later, they doubled the dosage!

  

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• In February of this year I returned to China to research my next book. The authorities know about the novels of mine that have been published in the west, including the latest one, Beijing Coma, about a student shot in Tiananmen Square, but so far have allowed me to return.

  

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• Television is a visual medium. You have to create some kind of visual interest. And it's entertainment for your eyes.

  

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• People are starved for the truth, and when something comes along that even looks like the truth, people will latch onto it because everything's so false.

  

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• By taking a second wife he pays the highest compliment to the first, by showing that she made him so happy as a married man, that he wishes to be so a second time.

  

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• I obviously spent a lot of time in New York City, and I loved it, but Chicago has a very different history than New York City does.

  

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• A lot of people have asked me to do answer phone messages for them.

  

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• I am a believer in the evolutionary process, and yet I have sympathy for the friends of mine who are creationists. I don't find the positions incompatible.

  

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• You tell your kids that no matter what, you set your goals and you go for them. Whatever it is you achieve, never give up. You want your kids to have that good attitude, the confidence, and the will power to believe in themselves.

  

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• I firmly believe kids don't want your understanding. They want your trust, your compassion, your blinding love and your car keys, but you try to understand them and you're in big trouble.

  

  Erma Bombeck
  • Believe
  • Kids
  • Compassion