Erma Bombeck Quotes

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Erma Bombeck

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• Help the man-in-the-street make sense of the bewildering.

  

  Owen Arthur
  • Help
  • Sense
  • Bewildering

• I'm lucky that I have my family, I'm lucky that my parents are still together. Those are the things that I cherish.

  

  Hailey Bieber
  • Family
  • Together
  • Parents

• Hip-hop is making a lot of noise. It should get some more spotlight.

  

  Nas
  • Hip Hop
  • Noise
  • Spotlight

• It's really important, especially for young girls, to see that if you fall down, you get back up. If you get sick, you get back up. People are going to say what they want.

  

  Kat Graham
  • People
  • Up
  • Important

• I never really do much research before signing a film. It is just the script and character that I concentrate on.

  

  Kareena Kapoor Khan
  • Character
  • Never
  • Research

• If you don't have a dream, how are you going to make a dream come true?

  

  Oscar Hammerstein
  • True
  • Dream
  • You

• I grew up in an acting family. I was heavily discouraged from doing it myself when I was young, which is the only responsible route to take with any child, because it's not necessarily the easiest of lives.

  

  Jack Davenport
  • Up
  • Family
  • Myself

• Democrats hate Democrats most of all.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Hate
  • Most
  • Democrats

• He whose wisdom cannot help him, gets no good from being wise.

  

  Quintus Ennius
  • Good
  • Help
  • Wisdom

• The biological evolutionary perception of life and of human qualities is radically different from that of traditional religion, whether it's Southern Baptist or Islam or any religion that believes in a supernatural supervalance over humanity.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Life
  • Different
  • Humanity

• I still have the mentality of a 19-year-old mind.

  

  Doyle Brunson
  • Mind

• Oh, it's essential. I mean, you have to - if I'm writing about the Middle East, I have to go there, and if possible, stay long enough to get a real feeling for what's going on.

  

  Joe Sacco
  • Long
  • Writing
  • Real

• The production of wealth is the result of agreement between labor and capital, between employer and employed. Its distribution, therefore, will follow the law of its creation, or great injustice will be done.

  

  Leland Stanford
  • Great
  • Done
  • Law

• I think I'd have to say my favorite IWC. They have been around for so long and the craftsmanship is top notch. A watch maker that has been in business over 100 years has to know what they are doing.

  

  Brian McKnight
  • Long
  • Business

• I met Jason on a charity walk in 2001, and we got married on a friend's boat in Panama two years later. It was the perfect wedding for two people who'd already been married and who weren't teenagers.

  

  Mariella Frostrup
  • People
  • Perfect
  • Friend

• Objectification, whatever its form, is not something anyone should have to 'just deal with.'

  

  Lauren Mayberry Chvrches

• This is my home. Home is where the disease is. As long as I stay in America, I'll never run out of subjects for songs.

  

  Eric Reed Boucher
  • Long
  • Home
  • America

• I think the best SF writers are very aware of what we, in the scientific community, are doing, thinking, and discovering.

  

  David Grinspoon
  • Thinking
  • Community

• Clothes are particularly hard to value. While cars and high-tech gadgets - Maseratis, Audemars Piguet watches, and first-generation iPhones - offer not only performance but the cachet of a visibly rich item, clothing does less to convey what you spent on it. Clothes get stained and snagged, and they go out of style quickly.

  

  Christina Binkley
  • High
  • Style
  • Value

• Better to be ignorant of a matter than half know it.

  

  Publilius Syrus

• Beware how in making the portraiture thou breakest the pattern: for divinity maketh the love of ourselves the pattern; the love of our neighbours but the portraiture.

  

  John Locke Nazareth
  • Love
  • Divinity
  • Portraiture

• Sometimes, with luck, we find the kind of true friend, male or female, that appears only two or three times in a lucky lifetime, one that will winter us and summer us, grieve, rejoice, and travel with us.

  

  Barbara Holland
  • Friend
  • Travel
  • Lifetime

• Bobby Fischer has an enormous knowledge of chess and his familiarity with the chess literature of the USSR is immense.

  

  Boris Spassky
  • Knowledge
  • Literature
  • Chess

• How come anything you buy will go on sale next week?

  

  Erma Bombeck
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