"It was a bitter moment for us...." - Quote by Erma Bombeck
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.
More by Erma Bombeck
“It's [motherhood] the biggest on-the-job- training program in existence today.”
“To say, "Well, I write when I really get into it" is a bunch of bull. Put the paper in the typewriter, stare at it a long time, get snowblindness if you have to, but write something.”
“A child needs your love most when he deserves it least”
More on Parenting
“Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our children.”
“Children pay more attention to what you do than to what you say.”
“Explain to me how he [her son] can ride a bicycle, run, play ball, set up a camp, swing, fight a war, swim and race for eight hours ... and has to be driven to the garbage can.”
More on Maturity
“but one loses, as one grows older, something of the lightness of one's dreams; one begins to take life up in both hands, and to care more for the fruit than the flower, and that is no great loss perhaps.”
“When one is young, one venerates and despises without that art of nuances which constitutes the best gain of life.”
“My overall look on things is a lot more mature than it used to be.”