Quote by Erma Bombeck
In general, my children refused to eat anything that hadn't danced

In general, my children refused to eat anything that hadn’t danced on TV. – Erma Bombeck

Other quotes by Erma Bombeck

Once you get a spice in your home, you have it forever. Women never throw out spices. The Egyptians were buried with their spices. I know which one Im taking with me when I go. – Erma Bombeck

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Home
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Being a child at home alone in the summer is a high-risk occupation. If you call your mother at work thirteen times an hour, she can hurt you. – Erma Bombeck

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Back to School
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Im trying very hard to understand this generation. They have adjusted the timetable for childbearing so that menopause and teaching a sixteen-year-old how to drive a car will occur in the same week. – Erma Bombeck

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Youth
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The more facts you tell, the more you sell. An advertisements chance for success invariably increases as the number of pertinent merchandise facts included in the ad increases. – Dr. Charles Edwards

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Advertising

My real talent was for losing clients. – Jay Chiat

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Advertising

Advertising is the principal reason why the business person has come to inherit the earth. – James R. Adams

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Advertising

The trouble with us in America isn’t that the poetry of life has turned to prose, but that it has turned to advertising copy. – Louis Kronenberger

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Civility costs nothing. – Proverb

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Manners

Some in my party threaten to send a message that they dont know a just war when they see it, and more broadly that theyre not prepared to use our military strength to protect our security and the cause of freedom. – Joe Lieberman

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strength

My dad was an engineer and so I had this picture of science and technology and pursuits of the mind as being more impressive than artistic pursuits, which I saw a as kind of frivolous. – Scott McCloud

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dad

I wanted to reimagine the role, in a way that was respectful of its traditional responsibilities but made them part of a wider pattern of poetry about national incidents, events, preoccupations and to spend a great deal of time going to schools trying to demystify poetry. – Andrew Motion

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Poetry