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I read (with pleasure) some of the quotes recently contributed by some of the posters. What quotes did you grow up learning? My Daddy was famous for his "pearls of wisdom" which we still remember (and abide by) to this day. One of his favorites was: "Oh, well, it could always be worse."Thanks for reading.
-- Dianne in Mass (dianne.bone@usa.net), May 25, 2001
I like "Don't cry over spilled milk;)". Also, Dad always liked to say,(and he truly believed), " When the Lord closes one door, He always opens another."
-- mary, in colorado (marylgarcia@aol.com), May 25, 2001.
My Godmother; "They can't get your goat if your goat ain't available to get got." and "if it doesn't matter - then it DOES NOT matter" (in other words, let it go).
-- Polly (tigger@moultrie.com), May 25, 2001.
Grandpa's favorite for any of lifes hard times since he played sandlot baseball was "Go up on the mound and pitch one more time". to which my reply was "I'm tired of pitching, when can I catch?". Another one that he passed to Dad and he passed to me is "When the whole world seems to be kicking you with both boots in the butt, cheer up, your finally running out in front! :>)
-- Jay Blair in N. AL (jayblair678@yahoo.com), May 25, 2001.
My mother always used the phrase "everyone has their sack of rocks"- meaning, I suppose, that we all have our problems to deal with. When we would complain, she would just say, "well, that's your sack of rocks". My father's family had a saying "get off that horse!" never exactly knew where it originated from, but meant to quit pulling one's leg, or exagerating. Jan
-- Jan in CO (Janice12@aol.com), May 25, 2001.
My grandmothers favorite was "If you take care of the pennies, the dollars will follow". I guess that's because she was a poor dirt farmers daughter and then lived through the Depression and WWII.
-- jennifer (schwabauer@aol.com), May 25, 2001.
One of my Mother's favorites is: "The ox is in the mire so might as well do something else." Meaning we're not going to get any more work done today.
-- Dianne in Mass (dianne.bone@usa.net), May 25, 2001.
My dad used to say "There's no such word as can't, if you want it enough you will make it happen". As a teenager it used to really tick me off, I guess I was looking for a quick and easy answer to a problem. I can't tell you how many times I have thought of that remark and it has brought me to completion on many of the things I have wanted to do in life. He also used to tell us kids to go outside and "air out our pants".
-- Betsy K (betsyk@pathwaynet.com), May 25, 2001.
My favorite is that: you are never given a problem that has an answer thats too big for you.
-- mitch hearn (moopups1@aol.com), May 25, 2001.
From my dad, who upon anyone poo-pooing one of his ideas/inventions, "Of course it's simple, everything becomes common through explanation".
-- Willy Allen (willyallen2@yahoo.com), May 26, 2001.
My dad's take on "drive carefully" was always (and still is) "Drive cheerfully!" Also, when we went anywhere, "Remember whose you are", meaning, if you're a Christian, live like one. And one more: "Go outside and blow you're stink off" meant we'd been cooped inside too long and were getting too rowdy.
-- Cathy N. (keeper8@attcanada.ca), May 26, 2001.
A quote that I heard alot from my Mother was "too bad about you - someday you might we glad to eat what the crows won't eat". Another one was "the back was made for the burden", in other words you will never be given more than the Lord thinks you can bear.
-- Jan Sears (jcsears@magma.ca), May 26, 2001.
I've heard this one at least a million times!! "if you're going to do it, you might as well do it right"
-- Melissa (cmnorris@1st.net), May 27, 2001.
"Penny wise, pound foolish" was one my granny used to use to discribe some people.
-- diane (gardiacaprines@yahoo.com), May 27, 2001.
Dad never swore in his life but when we heard him holler "THUNDER IN THE WINTER TIME!" we kids knew it was time to get scarce 'cause he was really mad.
-- debra in ks (solid-dkn@msn.com), May 27, 2001.
Whenever someone would drop something, like a pot or a lid, dad would sing out "there ain't no joy in our house since Nellie got the gong." And when we saw a round house, bard, building, dad would say "Head for the roundhouse Nellie, they can't corner you there."
-- Mike in Ohio (hakimike@yahoo.com), August 30, 2001.
One of my friends always said"If a picture is worth a thousand words, a memory is worth a thousand pictures."
She was a senior last year, and she died in a car wreck a few days before christmas.
They quoted her at graduation in the spring, and I realized how true it was... I don't have very may pictures of her, and as cherished as the few I have are, the memories are what are most important.
-- ...a friend... (monkey1@bananna.com), September 09, 2001.