Quotes of Erma Bombeck

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Graduation day is tough for adults. They go to the ceremony as parents. They come home as contemporaries. After twenty-two years of child-raising, they are unemployed.

- Erma Bombeck

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“ 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

“ I held my heart back from positively accepting anything, since I was afraid of another fall, and in this condition of suspense I was being all the more killed. ”

- St. Augustine of Hippo

“ Tough times never last. Tough people do ”

- Robert Schuller

“ When your only competition is becoming a better you, you will always win the game. ”

- Jackie Griffin

“ Unrequited love’s a bore. ”

- Lorenz Hart

“ Never apologize for burning too brightly or collapsing into yourself every night. That is how galaxies are made. ”

- Tyler Kent White

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

- Trevor Carss

“ You must learn to let go. Release the stress. You were never in control anyway. ”

- Steve Maraboli

“ The New England conscience doesn't keep you from doing what you shouldn't-it just keeps you from enjoying it. ”

- Cleveland Amory

“ There are four basic human needs; food, sleep, sex and revenge. ”

- Banksy

“ Battered was my heart in the deep search, branded with cracks like slices of silver birch. An ignorant dream, a wish, just fool's gold that was the tale that love had sold. ”

- Sara Secora

“ 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

“ You can never plan the future by the past. ”

- Edmund Burke

“ Numbers by popular consensus don’t make a wrong thing right, and if you are misunderstood for being right, don’t be afraid because they are not yet in the right time zone. ”

- Erwin D. Maramat

“ Don't let him take who you are. Make him fear who you'll become. ”

- Mary Weber

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

- Andrew Carnegie

“ My young sisters, we have such hope for you. We have such great expectations for you. Don't settle for less than what the Lord wants you to be... Give me a young woman who loves home and family, who reads and ponders the scriptures daily, who has a burning testimony of the Book of Mormon... Give me a young woman who is virtuous and who has maintained her personal purity, who will not settle for less than a temple marriage, and I will give you a young woman who will perform miracles for the Lord now and throughout eternity. ”

- Ezra

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

- W. E. B. Du Bois

“ Anything I ever did for a person was out of love, nobody can ever finesse me. ”

- Genereux Philip

“ Our great human adventure is the evolution of consciousness. We are in this life to enlarge the soul, liberate the spirit, and light up the brain. ”

- Tom Robbins

“ There is a distinct, awful pain that comes with loving someone more than they love you. ”

- Steve Maraboli

“ Denna is a wild thing," I explained. "Like a hind or a summer storm. If a storm blows down your house, or breaks a tree, you don't say the storm was mean. It was cruel. It acted according to its nature and something unfortunately was hurt. The same is true of Denna. ”

- Patrick Rothfuss

“ Keep your face always toward the sunshine and shadows will fall behind you. ”

- Walt Whitman

“ Legacy is greater than currency ”

- Gary Vaynerchuk

“ There are two ways of meeting difficulties: you alter the difficulties, or you alter yourself to meet them. ”

- Phyllis Bottome