Great dreams... never even get out of the box. It takes an uncommon amount of guts to put your dreams on the line, to hold them up and say, "How good or how bad am I?" That's where courage comes in.
- Erma Bombeck - In Art
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Dreams have only one owner at a time. That's why dreamers are lonely.
- Erma Bombeck - In Dreams
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It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.
- Erma Bombeck - In Dreams
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When humor goes, there goes civilization.
- Erma Bombeck - In Humor
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When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, "I used everything you gave me".
- Erma Bombeck - In Life
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The art of never making a mistake is crucial to motherhood. To be effective and to gain the respect she needs to function, a other must have her children believe she has never engaged in sex, never made a bad decision, never caused her own mother a moment's anxiety, and was never a child.
- Erma Bombeck - In Nature
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You hear a lot of dialogue on the death of the American family. Families aren't dying. They're merging into big conglomerates.
- Erma Bombeck - In Nature
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Thanksgiving dinners take eighteen hours to prepare. They are consumed in twelve minutes. Half-times take twelve minutes. This is not coincidence.
- Erma Bombeck - In Sports
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Don't confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other.
- Erma Bombeck - In Success
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