Erma Bombeck Quotes About Dreams

Quotes about: Dreams

• It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.

  Erma Bombeck

  Dream, Courage, Kindness

• Dreams have only one owner at a time. That's why dreamers are lonely.

  Erma Bombeck

  Inspirational, Dream, Lonely

• It takes an uncommon amount of guts to put your dreams on the line.

  Erma Bombeck

  Dream, Lines, Uncommon

• There are people who put their dreams in a little box and say, 'Yes, I've got dreams, of course I've got dreams.' Then they put the box away and bring it out once in awhile to look in it, and yep, they're still there. These are great dreams, but they 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

  Dream, People, Acting

• You always hear about fashion's success stories. How a starlet lost an earring one night and by the next morning, the entire country was wearing one earring. Or how sweaters made a comeback in a drugstore, or a First Lady influenced how we dressed during her reign. But what about the losers? The fashions that came and went out the same day? The hopes and dreams of designers that were shattered by the sound of fifty million women ... laughing themselves to death.

  Erma Bombeck

  Country, Dream, Fashion

  Erma Bombeck (2013). “The Erma Bombeck Collection: If Life Is a Bowl of Cherries, What Am I Doing in the Pits?, Motherhood, and The Grass Is Always Greener Over the Septic Tank”, p.107, Open Road Media

• I'm real ambivalent about [working mothers]. Those of use who have been in the women's movement for a long time know that we've talked a good game of "go out and fulfill your dreams" and "be everything you were meant to be." But by the same token, we want daughters-in-law who are going to stay home and raise our grandchildren.

  Erma Bombeck

  Daughter, Mother, Dream

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