Erma Bombeck Quotes

If I raised my hand to wipe the hair out of my children's eyes, they'd flinch and call their attorney.

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• The way we do music in Brazil is very different because we are so moved by music; we grow up with that.

  

  Camila Alves
  • Up
  • Music
  • Different

• My daughter passed away in 2003.

  

  Daniel Cormier
  • Daughter
  • Away
  • Passed

• It doesn't have to be a mountain you have to be climbing. I hope to change people's opinion about Saudi in general and Saudi women and Saudi women's opinion about themselves. I really hope they can step out of their comfort zone and just dream: try to push your limits.

  

  Raha Moharrak
  • People
  • Women
  • Hope

• It's my view that any conservative who loves his country has to be extremely concerned.

  

  Vincent Bugliosi
  • Country
  • View
  • Conservative

• Ultimately, you have to pursue your own path, not someone's idea of the right path. You need to stay on your path.

  

  Baz Luhrmann
  • You
  • Path
  • Own

• I think young adults get a bad rap for being self-absorbed and self-centered. My experience going around the United States and speaking in schools is that teenagers here are very interested in the fate of their peers around the world.

  

  Patricia McCormick
  • World
  • Experience
  • Bad

• Twitter is worth it if you like tweeting. Same is true of Facebook. Or Pinterest. Nothing wrong with having a social presence.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • True
  • Same
  • Presence

• I write for a radio show that, no matter what, will go on the air Saturday at five o'clock central time. You learn to write toward that deadline, to let the adrenaline pick you up on Friday morning and carry you through, to cook up a monologue about Lake Wobegon and get to the theater on time.

  

  Garrison Keillor
  • Up
  • Time
  • Morning

• The rage was in me, and if it wasn't for the rage, then I wouldn't know how to be calm. They feed off of each other. Just like when Malcolm X fed off Martin Luther King. They needed each other.

  

  Gary Sheffield
  • Know
  • Calm
  • Needed

• Almost overnight, white people have gone from being very powerful to potentially irrelevant. Their future in South Africa is not what many had envisaged, so it involves a lot of reinvention.

  

  Damon Galgut
  • People
  • Future
  • Powerful

• One of my favorites is Angela Merkel because I think she's been an extraordinary, strong leader during difficult times in Europe, which has obvious implications for the rest of the world and, most particularly, our country... her bravery in the face of the refugee crisis is something that I am impressed by.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • World
  • Country
  • She

• When a person inflates his own importance, he does not see his own sins; and his sins get bigger right along with him.

  

  Leo Tolstoy

• Seven years ago, my father and I realized that our relationship was extremely unique, especially in the African-American community. He raised me to not only understand the fundamentals of basketball and to try to be a player with a high basketball IQ, but he wanted me to understand that my image and my name meant more than stats.

  

  Allan Houston
  • American
  • High
  • Father

• Scripts are very different to books. They are blueprints for building, not the building.

  

  David Hewson
  • Different

• There is no middle ground in Hollywood; you're a failure or you're a success. That mentality is wild.

  

  Javier Bardem
  • Success
  • Failure

• The worst resentment that anybody can have is one you feel justified to keep.

  

  Louis Gossett, Jr.

• Low-value payments are now possible. Now, Ripple can make it easy for Facebook and Uber and Amazon to make payments to developers in real time. It's online and completely global.

  

  Chris Larsen
  • Time
  • Real
  • Value

• More essential than working on attitudes and behaviors is examining the paradigms out of which those attitudes and behaviors flow.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Attitude
  • Belief
  • Behavior

• Being that I always perform, I started working out with a trainer to get that endurance and stamina. Now, I guess you could call me a gym rat.

  

  Fat Joe
  • Me
  • Always
  • Gym

• Hope is like one of those orchids that grows around toxic waste: lovely in itself - and an assertion, if you like, of indefatigable good - but a sure sign that something nasty lies underneath.

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • Good
  • Hope
  • Lies

• Without the brave efforts of all the soldiers, sailors, airmen, and marines and their families, this Nation, along with our allies around the world, would not stand so boldly, shine so brightly and live so freely.

  

  Lane Evans
  • World
  • Live
  • Brave

• Because religion has such a compelling hold on the deep psyches of so many people, feminists cannot afford to leave it in the hands of the fathers.

  

  Carol P. Christ
  • People
  • Deep

• If I raised my hand to wipe the hair out of my children's eyes, they'd flinch and call their attorney.

  

  Erma Bombeck
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