When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit… — Erma Bombeck Copy Share Image
If I had my life to live over again, I would have waxed less and listened more. ... I would have cried… — Erma Bombeck Copy Share Image
I learned the importance of a man's chair early in life. I learned that he may love several wives, embrace several cars,… — Erma Bombeck Copy Share Image
“ If I had my life to live over... Someone asked me the other day if I had my life to live… — Erma Bombeck Copy Share Image
I've decided life is too fragile to finish a book I dislike just because it cost $16.95 and everyone else loved it.… — Erma Bombeck Copy Share Image
Grandparenthood is one of life's rewards for surviving your own children. — Erma Bombeck Copy Share Image
When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit… — Erma Bombeck Copy Share Image
...I remember thinking how often we look, but never see...we listen, but never hear...we exist, but never feel. We take our relationships… — Erma Bombeck Copy Share Image
When children reach the age of sixteen, they discover the meaning of life: car keys. — Erma Bombeck Copy Share Image
Mothers are not the nameless, faceless stereotypes who appear once a year on a greeting card with their virtues set to prose,… — Erma Bombeck Copy Share Image
If I had my life to live over I would have burned the pink candle sculpted like a rose before it melted… — Erma Bombeck Copy Share Image
One thing they never tell you about child raising is that for the rest of your life, at the drop of a… — Erma Bombeck Copy Share Image
Pregnancy is the only time in a woman's life she can help God work a miracle. — Erma Bombeck Copy Share Image
For the first two years of a child's life, we spend every waking hour tryibg to get the child to communicate. Then… — Erma Bombeck Copy Share Image
Family life got better and we got our car back - as soon as we put 'I love Mom' on the license… — Erma Bombeck Copy Share Image
“For from this day forward his world can only widen. An existence that began in a crib, grew to a house, and… — Erma Bombeck Copy Share Image
Adults are always telling young people, 'These are the best years of your life.' Are they? I don't know. Sometimes when adults… — Erma Bombeck Copy Share Image
Early in my life I had made a pact with myself. I would never eat anything that moved when I cooked it,… — Erma Bombeck Copy Share Image
If I had my life to live over, instead of wishing away nine months of pregnancy, I'd have cherished ever moment and… — Erma Bombeck Copy Share Image
The family. We were a strange little band of characters trudging through life sharing diseases and toothpaste, coveting one another's desserts, hiding… — Erma Bombeck Copy Share Image
It's [motherhood] the biggest on-the-job- training program in existence today. — Erma Bombeck Copy Share Image
Motherhood isn't just a series of contractions; it's a state of mind. From the moment we know life is inside us, we… — Erma Bombeck Copy Share Image
The family. We are a strange little band of characters trudging through life sharing diseases and toothpaste, coveting one another's desserts, hiding… — Erma Bombeck Copy Share Image
To my way of thinking, the American family started to decline when parents began to communicate with their children. — Erma Bombeck Copy Share Image
The woman who says, 'My kids are all speaking to one another and they love us' is a psychopathic liar. — Erma Bombeck Copy Share Image
To say, "Well, I write when I really get into it" is a bunch of bull. Put the paper in the typewriter, stare at… — Erma Bombeck Copy Share Image
Just think of all those women on the Titanic who said, 'No thank you' to desert that night. And for what?! — Erma Bombeck Copy Share Image
The mole rat is the only rodent born without a fur coat. With a good lawyer, someone would pay for that little oversight. — Erma Bombeck Copy Share Image
Making coffee has become the great compromise of the decade. It's the only thing "real" men do that doesn't seem to threaten their masculinity.… — Erma Bombeck Copy Share Image