Erma Bombeck Quotes

The only unitasker allowed in my kitchen is a fire extinguisher.

I'm going to get married again because I'm more mature now, and I need some kitchen stuff.

It's a very American thing to hide away from death.

You can't go into the chef's office of any serious kitchen and not see a copy of Larousse. A must-have for professional and home cooks alike.

I think Americans are good-hearted, open-minded people and race doesn't enter into this - at all.

In America many things that are interesting are seen as odd.

There's something about the American sensibility that kind of hails people in the public eye. You have a star system. You have that kind of thing where you say, "Good on you for doing that."

Those aren't the kinds of folks who represent our core American values.

I knew that there was an aspect to this story that was beyond the typical and that it was something very important about America, about our culture, and about bringing a story to a new generation that perhaps didn't know the details of it, (and) hadn't had the visceral experience that this film is [42].

If we have an element of Americans here that reject western civilization, and that's a big element, that reject western civilization, then what have we? This is an effort on the left I think to break down the American civilization and the American culture and turn it into something entirely different.

My mom gave me one of those cloth calendars for the kitchen. It took me three hours to sew in a dental appointment.

Americans have two ardent passions; the love of liberty, and love of distinction.

The United States is my subject, but as Hawthorne once wrote, "the United States are suited for many admirable purposes, but not to live in."

A good country song taps into strong undercurrents of family, faith, and patriotism.

The superman exists and he's American.

I don't want to be like Europe. I want to be like America.

God forbid that the day should ever come when, in the American mind, the thought of man as a consumer shall submerge the old American thought of man as a creature of God, endowed with unalienable rights.

A tough but nervous, tenacious but restless race [the Yankees]; materially ambitious, yet prone to introspection, and subject to waves of religious emotion. . . . A race whose typical member is eternally torn between a passion for righteousness and a desire to get on in the world.

The true religion of America has always been America.

Sophia Loren is the embodiment of what a woman should be -- the epitome of femaleness. Most of the young people today are just ironing boards.

Every true American likes to think in terms of thousands and millions. The word 'million' is probably the most pleasure-giving vocable in the language.

I love Britain, I lived there for nine years doing shows and things, but I don't know what a British sensibility is. I'd like to have someone tell me what an American sensibility is.

I live my life by the numbers. Not only am I an American, I am an Americanist.

On this global stage, Superman is someone that we can all look up to and he's almost kind of ultimately American.

I still have a lot of family in America. I still have a lot of friends there. There is a lot that I admire there very much. When I find America getting too much criticized outside America, I want to tell them how many things are good about it.