Family quote that you heard while growing up. (accident, street, money)

[debey]

No one borrows my tools.......not even your Grandmothers.......
(quote, my dad)

[kaykay]

My dad used to say something to the effect of "If it won't matter in 5 or 10 years, it's not worth getting worked up about!" That used to irritate me at the time, but now I realize that's pretty some pretty good wisdom right there.

[Miss Blue]

One time in the 2nd grade I came home crying because the teacher had hurt my feelings..My dad, thinking he would make me laughsaid "Tell your teacher to cross her eyes and flip#$&^"The next morning, I did Dad had to go to school and apologizeAnd Daddy never told me to tell the teacher anything again

[LittleDolphin]

The ones I remember the most are:

If a job's worth doing, it's worth doing right--this was said when my dad was inspecting my after-dinner kitchen clean-up and it failed to measure up to his standards--mine were pretty low (I was thinking when he said it, No, Dad, you're wrong, it's If a job's worth doing, it's worth doing fast so I can go do something more interesting than wiping down the counters and scrubbing pots.)

A place for everything and everything in it's place. Me thinking, Fine, dad, you're right, and this chair in my bedroom is the place for my entire wardrobe--I know exactly where everything is.

If it costs money, I'm against it. How did he know I was about to hit him up for some extra dough for something?? Guess I had that pleading look on my face.

Do you think money grows on trees? No, dad, I think it grows in your wallet and it's been growing there for quite some time, because you never open it up and let it out, it's gotta be big.

Do you want me to go get the belt? Sure dad, that's my idea of a good time, please, pretty please go get it...

Why? Because I said so. That answer is insufficiently illuminating, dad, could you expand further on that, maybe give 5 or 6 really good reasons that make more sense? (this comment was usually followed by Do you want me to go get the belt...?

[cottonwood2420]

"What does that have to do with the time of day in Berlin?".
"That's about as exciting as watching paint dry".

[g_i_jani]

let me preface this by saying we thought EVERYONE said these..
when some one was coughing my Dad would Always say
"Why don't you PUKE Delila!" because he had an Aunt Delila who hacked all the time!
"Does a bear S**t in the woods?
"Does a camel S**t in the desert?
And of course the ole "Lamont!" when you said something stupid! From Sanford and Son...........Lamont was Fred's son....

[g_i_jani]

Forgot the best one................
when ever we went ANYWHERE from the front seat to the back..
I don't want you two RUNNING AROUND LIKE A BUNCH OF WILD INDIANS!

[Whyte Byrd]

Oh so many. Where to start. One I've repeated to my children all during their childhood: A man is only as good as his word.

I liked my dad's Bush-isms b'c they always made us giggle--out of his earshot, of course b'c he didn't like us making fun of him LOL: Your feet don't fiddle in. That was supposed to be in response to someone saying, "Who?", you say, "Your feet don't fit a limb." LOL He had a lot of those and I love them.

[piperspal]

"No one else in the family has a problem with it" (as in waiting for the bathroom - one bathroom in a house with 7 people - I was the youngest....guess who always had to wait???)

"just for $hits & giggles"

"if I had a nickel for every time......"

"it's never your fault, is it?"

"choose wisely; life doesn't offer a lot of do-overs"

[Magnum Mike]

It can take years to build a house, but a few minutes to destroy it.