Erma Bombeck Quotes

I was too old for a paper route, too young for Social Security and too tired for an affair.

Erma Bombeck

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• There is a humanitarian impulse that one aspires to and there are days when one doesn't do it very well.

  

  Ralph Fiennes
  • Very
  • Days
  • Humanitarian

• My biggest hero was Roman Gabriel, who was the QB of the Rams, and Roger Staubach. Those were the two guys I tired to emulate when I was little.

  

  Warren Moon
  • Hero
  • Tired
  • Two

• A writer wants something more than money for his work: he wants permanence.

  

  A. A. Milne
  • Work
  • Money
  • Writer

• This country is becoming increasingly authoritarian. It's based on capital punishment.

  

  Kate Millett
  • Country
  • Punishment

• I grew up in Pittsburgh, and regularly, my parents would take us to the Holiday House Supper Club to see acts like Nancy Wilson, Sarah Vaughn, Ben Vereen, Freda Payne, Stephanie Mills, and The Temptations, to name a few.

  

  Tamara Tunie
  • Up
  • House
  • Parents

• I do not watch horror films. At all. I am not a horror film girl; I don't have the stomach for it. I've seen a few in my lifetime, like 'The Shining' or 'Carrie,' but I can't sleep for, like, a week after I see something like that.

  

  Malin Akerman
  • Sleep
  • Films
  • Horror

• It is the union of independence and dependence of these branches - legislative, executive and judicial - and of the governmental functions possessed by each of them, that constitutes the marvellous genius of this unrivalled document.

  

  J. Reuben Clark
  • Genius
  • Independence

• When I was fifteen, I dreamed of living in the big city, as many a young person does if he is artistic and sensitive. By 'artistic and sensitive' I mean short, skinny, unkissed, bad at sports, and carrying a C average in high school.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • School
  • Bad
  • High

• I love football.

  

  Kaitlin Olson
  • Love
  • Football
  • I Love

• I have a rich, full, textured life.

  

  Lainie Kazan
  • Life
  • Rich
  • Full

• As governor of California in 1970, Reagan endeared himself to millions of conservatives nationwide when he publicly rebuked the anti-war movement that was exploding on college campuses.

  

  Jackson Katz
  • War
  • College
  • California

• The essential functions of the mind consist in understanding and in inventing, in other words, in building up structures by structuring reality.

  

  Jean Piaget
  • Up
  • Mind
  • Reality

• Into whatever houses I enter, I will go into them for the benefit of the sick, and will abstain from every voluntary act of mischief and corruption; and, further from the seduction of females or males, of freemen and slaves.

  

  Hippocrates
  • Sick
  • Seduction

• It can be difficult to discuss America’s immigration policies when it’s considered racist merely to say, ‘We liked America the way it was.'

  

  Ann Coulter
  • America
  • Immigration

• My standup is observational, but it's self-observational, and it's self-deprecating, definitely.

  

  Chelsea Handler

• People are tired of seeing politicians as all talk and no action.

  

  Donald Trump
  • People
  • Action
  • Tired

• If you've got a shot at having some 30 million people give you thumbs up or thumbs down every week, you take it.

  

  Joe Penny
  • People
  • Up

• I don't think many people can say they've been the lead in a Spielberg film and still been able to live their normal life that they had before.

  

  Jamie Bell
  • People
  • Life
  • Live

• I just know I can't force things. I've just got to play the right way, make sure I'm making the right play at the right time.

  

  Jalen Brunson
  • Time

• If you lose your soul, there is a danger of its being destroyed. Therefore, you may not love it, since you do not want it to be destroyed. But in not wanting it to be destroyed, you love it.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • May
  • Soul

• And it occurred to me that people who don't talk about themselves are limiting their own potential. They think they're guarding themselves for some sort of abstract dange, but they're actually allowing other people to decide who they are and what they're like.

  

  Chuck Klosterman
  • People
  • Potential
  • Dange

• I went through a period where I was really tired of seeing and reading about myself.

  

  Michael Stipe R.E.M.
  • Reading
  • Period
  • Tired

• I was too old for a paper route, too young for Social Security and too tired for an affair.

  

  Erma Bombeck
  • Tired
  • Security
  • Affair