Erma Bombeck Quotes About Parents

Quotes about: Parents

• All of us have moments in our lives that test our courage. Taking children into a house with a white carpet is one of them.

  Erma Bombeck

  Funny Inspirational, Children, Parenting

• When my kids become wild and unruly, I use a nice, safe playpen. When they're finished, I climb out.

  Erma Bombeck

  Funny, Family, Mom

• 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

  Summer, Mother, Hurt

• It was a bitter moment for us. We weren't two mature parents. We were just two kids playing grown-up. We still needed Mommy and Daddy's permission, blessings, and money to survive.

  Erma Bombeck

  Kids, Blessing, Two

• Somewhere it is written that parents who are critical of other people's children and publicly admit they can do better are asking for it.

  Erma Bombeck

  Children, People, Parent

  Erma Bombeck (2013). “Motherhood: The Second Oldest Profession”, p.94, Open Road Media

• My sister and I never engaged in sibling rivalry. Our parents weren't that crazy about either one of us.

  Erma Bombeck

  Sister, Sibling, Crazy

• It is upsetting to many parents that their teen-agers introduce them to their friends as encyclopedia salesmen who are just passing through ... if they introduce them at all. I have some acquaintances who hover in dark parking lots, enter church separately and crouch in furnace rooms so their teen-agers will not be accused of having parents.

  Erma Bombeck

  Dark, Parent, Upset

  Erma Bombeck, Bil Keane (2011). “Just Wait Till You Have Children of Your Own!”, p.101, Fawcett

• Good kids are like sunsets. We take them for granted. Every evening they disappear. Most parents never imagine how hard they try to please us, and how miserable they feel when they think they have failed.

  Erma Bombeck

  Sunset, Kids, Thinking

• When the history of guilt is written, parents who refuse their children money will be right up there in the Top Ten.

  Erma Bombeck

  Money, Children, Parent

  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.320, Open Road Media

• To my way of thinking, the American family started to decline when parents began to communicate with their children.

  Erma Bombeck

  Family, Children, Thinking

  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.71, Open Road Media

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