"Families aren't easy to join. They're like an exclusive country club where membership makes impossible demands and the dues for an outsider are exorbitant."

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Erma Bombeck

#Family Quotes #Country Quotes #Demand Quotes

“None of the wives mention the security guards by the door, who will probably tackle us to the ground if we try to leave without our husbands.”
“The thing that I've always been slightly frustrated with, was that the idea of a CD is kind of confined to a material possession that you can put on a shelf. And the idea of music, for me, is always about both the communication and the sharing of content. And so the interactive part is missing.”
“Most great learning happens in groups. Collaboration is the stuff of growth.”
“Yes, hard is good. When I was in high school, I spent a lot of time on my knees playing with balls. I guess it was only natural that I became a catcher.”
“Some people say we have thirteen albums that all sound the same. That isn't true. We have fourteen albums that all sound the same.”
“At last I came to college. I rushed for it with the outstretched arms of youth's aching hunger to give and take of life's deepest, and highest, and I came against the solid wall of the well-fed, well-dressed world - the frigid whitewashed wall of cleanliness. ... How I pinched, and scraped, and starved myself, to save enough to come to college! Every cent of the tuition fee I paid was drops of sweat and blood from underpaid laundry work. And what did I get for it? A crushed spirit, a broken heart, a stinging sense of poverty that I never felt before.”
“In the beginning I tried to accommodate everything there that was somewhere between art and garbage and that somehow seemed important to me and a pity to throw away. After a while, some sheets in the Atlas acquired another value, after all - that is, it seemed to me that they could stand on their own terms, not only under the protection of the Atlas.”
“The elevator to success is out of order. You'll have to use the stairs... one step at a time.”

Source : Joe Girard, Robert Casemore (1979). “How to Sell Yourself”, Simon & Schuster

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