Famous Quotes & Sayings

Erma Bombeck

I've always felt there are two things a woman should never do after the age of thirty-five: stand in natural light and have a baby...

Erma Bombeck

I've always been intrigued with the variety of answers this generation will give their children who ask, "Where did I come from, Mommy?" They will range from "Number 176 vial in Buffalo, New York," to "You were defrosted."

Erma Bombeck

The age of your children is a key factor in how quickly you are served in a restaurant. We once had a waiter in Canada who said, "Could I get you your check?" and we answered, "How about the menu first?"

Erma Bombeck

If I raised my hand to wipe the hair out of my children's eyes, they'd flinch and call their attorney.

Erma Bombeck

I got so much food spit back in my face when my kids were small, I put windshield wipers on my glasses.

Erma Bombeck

My son did not show signs of a money deficiency until he opened his small fist in the nursery and found it was empty.

Erma Bombeck

Having a delivery covered by Medicare just isn't going to fly. It's too risky for a woman to put a baby down and not remember where she left it.

Erma Bombeck

Let us hope manufacturers can come up with a diaper that is environmentally sound. To go back to cloth would send us back to the day when breathing and raising a baby at the same time were incompatible.

Erma Bombeck

Babies on television never spit up on the Ultrasuede.

Erma Bombeck

Babies should enjoy the freedom to vocalize whether it be in church, a public meeting place, during a movie, or after hours when the lights are out. They have not yet learned that joy and laughter have to last a lifetime and must be conserved.

Erin McKean

Singing when no one else is around is always good. I especially like belters. Good, loud singing is probably better medicine than half the stuff they sell in pill bottles, and it's cheaper, too. I also think people should never turn down an opportunity to hold a baby. There's something about the feel of a new baby in your arms that just fixes you.

Erin McKean

I also think people should never turn down an opportunity to hold a baby. There's something about the feeling of a new baby in your arms that just fixes you.

James Taylor

I tend to like things that I've written recently because it's fresh but then there are things that I think really turned out well. I'd say I'm still pretty proud of Sweet Baby James.

I have to stick Chloe about 10 times a day. It's hard to have to stick a baby but that's the only way I can keep her alive.

Newt Gingrich

I pledge right here working with the president that we will work in a bipartisan basis ... to enact in 1999 the right savings and the right steps to reform the system for the baby boomers and their children,

In the next couple of years children of the baby boomers will be looking for rentals.

In the middle of winter it's a very helpful thing for rinsing off your pet or washing your car. In the spring, when the water is still frigid, it's great for filling up the baby pool or the regular pool.

If you see a patient in labor with meconium in the amniotic fluid, you shouldn't do amnioinfusion, ... What you do want to do is to prevent the baby from becoming hypoxic.

Heidi Klum

If you worked really hard before and don't go too crazy, you shouldn't have to work as hard afterward (to lose the baby weight)

Flavor Flav

One thing you can't do with babies, you can't give them steak.

Henry Louis Gates

Everybody wants to have sex - you don't have to have a baby when you're 16. You don't have to do drugs. I think our Sunday schools should be turned into Black history schools and computer schools on the weekend, just like Hebrew schools for Jewish people, or my Asian friends who send their kids to schools on the weekend to learn Chinese or Korean.

Henny Youngman

A baby-sitter is a teenager who gets two dollars an hour to eat five dollars' worth of your food.

Helen Keller

Long before I learned to do a sum in arithmetic or describe the shape of the earth, Miss Sullivan had taught me to find beauty in the fragrant woods, in every blade of grass, and in the curves and dimples of my baby sister's hand.

Cat Stevens

Ooh baby, baby, it's a wild world, it's hard just to get by upon a smile.

Cate Blanchett

Onscreen, babies and animals are my inspiration. They're so alive and there and not messed up in the head the way I am.

Cassandra Clare

Baby?" She perched beside him in the chair. "You're kidding me right?" "I was trying it out, no?" "no," she said firmly Simon & Clary

George Eliot

Ah, I often think it's wi' th' old folks as it is wi' the babies; they're satisfied wi' looking, no matter what they're looking at. It's God A'mighty's way o' quietening 'em, I reckon, afore they go to sleep.

Gary Player

There is absolutely nothing humorous at the Masters. Here, small dogs do not bark and babies do not cry.

Gary Numan

I have one brother, John, an airline pilot, who is seven years younger. He's adopted, though we're still blood related - he's my cousin. My parents couldn't have any more children after me, so when Dad's brother died, they adopted John, then just a baby.

Christopher Bond

Hold on to your wallets folks because with the passage of this trillion-dollar baby, the Democrats will be poised to spend as much as $3 trillion in your tax dollars. Taxpayers will be on the hook for spending that will stimulate the debt, stimulate the growth of government, but will do little to stimulate jobs or the economy.

Francis Ford Coppola

Cinema without risk is like having no sex and expecting to have a baby.

Francesca Lia Block

Everything was fine, but Weetzie wanted a baby. “How could you want one?” My Secret Agent Lover Man said. “There are way too many babies. And diseases. And nuclear accidents. And crazy psychos. We cant have a baby,” he said.

Francesca Lia Block

There’s nowhere to escape,” Dobey said, jamming his hands into his pockets and staring into the Valley. That’s not true, baby,” said Desiree. She took his hands and pulled him to her, wrapping her legs around his torso. She could feel the sobs in both of them, but quiet, silenced by the kiss. They could escape inside each other.