Quotes of Erma Bombeck

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There's something wrong with a mother who washes out a measuring cup with soap and water after she's only measured water in it.

- Erma Bombeck

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“ My mama always used to tell me: ‘If you can’t find somethin’ to live for, you best find somethin’ to die for.’ ”

- Tupac Shakur

“ Finding the lesson behind every adversity will be the one important thing that helps get you through it. ”

- Roy T. Bennett

“ Mistakes are not bad; excuses are. ”

- Udai Yadla

“ He didn't realize that love as powerful as your mother's for you leaves its own mark. ”

- J.K. Rowling

“ Because, if you could love someone, and keep loving them, without being loved back . . . then that love had to be real. It hurt too much to be anything else. ”

- Sarah Cross

“ If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there’d be peace. ”

- John Lennon

“ I wonder if you have noticed a rather rummy thing about it viz. that it is everywhere. You can't get away from it. Love, I mean. Wherever you go, there it is, buzzing along in every class of life. Quite remarkable. ”

- P. G. Wodehouse

“ Bagiku ada sesuatu yang paling berharga dan hakiki dalam kehidupan: 'dapat mencintai, dapat iba hati, dapat merasai kedukaan'. Tanpa itu semua maka kita tidak lebih dari benda. Berbahagialah orang yang masih mempunyai rasa cinta, yang belum sampai kehilangan benda yang paling bernilai itu. Kalau kita telah kehilangan itu maka absurdlah hidup kita. ”

- Soe Hok Gie

“ Yet there are moments when the walls of the mind grow thin; when nothing is unabsorbed, and I could fancy that we might blow so vast a bubble that the sun might set and rise in it and we might take the blue of midday and the black of midnight and be cast off and escape from here and now. ”

- Virginia Woolf

“ There are many Mondays to go before I die. I may as well look forward to them. ”

- Trevor Carss

“ All worries are less with wine. ”

- Amit Kalantri

“ Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure. ”

- George Edward Woodberry

“ I was blind and heart broken and didn't want to do anything and Gus burst into my room and shouted, "I have wonderful news!" And I was like, "I don't really want to hear wonderful news right now," and Gus said, "This is wonderful news you want to hear," and I asked him, "Fine, what is it?" and he said, "You are going to live a good and long life filled with great and terrible moments that you cannot even imagine yet! ”

- John Green

“ I thought it (love) meant like you hold out your hand and someone takes it, holds it hard, and pulls you safe from the river. You talk. You tell him bits of yourself. You say here's where I hurt and you give it to him and he holds it and gives you where he hurts in return and you hold it and that's how you learn to love. ”

- Elizabeth George

“ The purpose of life is not to be happy—but to matter, to be productive, to be useful, to have it make some difference that you lived at all. ”

- Leo Rosten

“ Never run from the truth. It is always there; it never changes – save your energy. ”

- Steve Maraboli

“ Do your duty and a little more and the future will take care of itself. ”

- Andrew Carnegie

“ I was watching the first raindrops falling down on the porous ground. Each drop disappeared eagerly into the sand without any hesitations. The Earth, in turn, embraced it warmly like it has gotten back something precious that once belonged to it. I, somehow, thought that this particular image suited more our story than anything else ”

- Ismaaciil C. Ubax

“ Education must not simply teach work – it must teach Life. ”

- W. E. B. Du Bois

“ I love my attitude problem. ”

- Unknown

“ I try to avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward. ”

- Charlotte Bronte

“ It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not. ”

- Andre Gide

“ The road to success is always under construction. ”

- Steve Maraboli

“ Her footprints are leaving green marks on the desert heart of mine ”

- Ismaaciil C. Ubax

“ Isn't it strange how we all start as strangers? Fall in love, share infinities, hurt each other, fall out of love to eventually end as the strangers we once were? ”

- Fiphie