Erma Bombeck Quotes

My grandparents had always helped look after me, they were always there.

My sense of personal strength has always come from my family.

I'm really close to my parents and my sisters. It is awesome to have a built-in support system and people who love you unconditionally. I wouldn't be the person I am without my crew!

For the record, my mother is an astonishing and loving grandmother.

My overwhelming memory of being a child is the huge amount of love I felt for my mum. She was my everything, because she was both my mum and my dad.

I've always stayed really close with my mother and my father.

I'm really close to my parents.

I have 22 grandchildren and great-grandchildren, and they keep me young.

My family's close.

For the most part, having a strong family gets you through anything.

My uncles are always busy away acting, so I barely even see them much at all, but I always know that they are so supportive. Anytime I do see them, they always check up on it and make sure everything's okay and let me know that they're there for me.

My sister-in-law, my mother, grandmother, and the entire family have been the biggest support for me.

Recently I was tenderly hugging one of our precious little five-year-old granddaughters and said to her, "I love you, sweetheart." She responded rather blandly: "I know." I asked, "How do you know that I love you?" Because! You're my grandfather!

I loved my own Grandparents with all my heart. I learned important lessons from them about how to treat people, how to cook and how to work.....they showered us kids with love and left the parenting to Momma and Daddy. That's the beauty of being a grandparent - the hard work belongs to someone else. I guess I never really understood the depth of their love for me until I became a grandmother myself... it is unlike any other relationship.

The world, we'd discovered, doesn't love you like your family loves you.

How can we not talk about family when family is all we got

Mama always said a good family has one heartbeat. No one knows you like the people you live with, and no one will take up your cause to the outside world quite like your blood relatives.

In the presence of grandparent and grandchild, past and future merge in the present.

As mothers and daughters, we are connected with one another. My mother is the bones of my spine, keeping me straight and true. She is my blood, making sure it runs rich and strong. She is the beating of my heart. I cannot now imagine a life without her.

I've known my mom since I was zero years old. She is quite dope.

A grandparent is the only baby-sitter who doesn't charge more after midnight - or anything before midnight.

We had a beautiful dream and that was all. The interest of my son is the only guide I have, and whatever happiness I could achieve by being free of this place I cannot consent to separate my self from him. I could not have any pleasure in the world if I abandoned my children. I do not even have any regrets.

Without my family, I would be nothing.

I have four kids - they're 19 to 33 - that I love more than anything.

My dad is my dad. I love him, and I realize that he's as famous as he is. Of course, I don't look at him like everybody else does. Because I know his little faults, I know his weaknesses. Nobody's perfect. But he's my dad. Just like your dad is to you.