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Year Quotes by Erma Bombeck
- Why would anyone steal a shopping cart? It's like stealing a two-year-old.
- Mothers are not the nameless, faceless stereotypes who appear once a year on a greeting card with their virtues set to prose, but women who…
- What does it profit a 78-year-old woman to sit around the pool in a bikini if she cannot feed herself?
- Remember, you can lead a fifty-seven-year-old body to motherhood, but you can't make it stay awake.
- Last year I gave seventy-four phone hours to soliciting baked goods for the Bake-A-Rama. I was named Top Call Girl by the League.
- Friends are "annuals" that need seasonal nurturing to bear blossoms. Family is a "perennial" that comes up year after year, enduring the droughts of absence…
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- Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside… — Lance Armstrong
- I joined the swim team when I was 12, and I was the worst kid in the pool - I was put… — Lance Armstrong
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- Science has not yet mastered prophecy. We predict too much for the next year and yet far too little for the next… — Neil Armstrong
- Drop the last year into the silent limbo of the past. Let it go, for it was imperfect, and thank God that… — Brooks Atkinson
- Democracy is not something you put away for ten years, and then in the 11th year you wake up and start practicing… — Chinua Achebe
- The damage done in one year can sometimes take ten or twenty years to repair. — Chinua Achebe
- I didn't go to school for a full year until I was 12. In the summer I was a wild child in… — Margaret Atwood
- Beginning to dismantle the Pentagon would save $1 trillion a year - a small government proposal if ever there was one. — Bill Ayers
- I live in a high rise with my family part of the year in New York and I don't know three quarters… — Dan Aykroyd
- The Postal Service delivers mail six days a week to nearly 140 million addresses. Every year this number increases by 2 million. — Joe Baca