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#66108 - 03/19/06 02:30 PM Re: the one liners with big lessons........
Sandi Member Registered: 02/13/06 Posts: 163 Loc: Jupiter Florida	Yes, I have heard some of those noted above growing up...also heard When my father wrecked my car, and I needed a new one: "can't get blood from a stone" "If you had to wear your shoes on your head, you would keep them clean" "Eat everything on your plate, people are starving in China" (so, send the food to china!) and the one I really remember, I just can't say it here !!!
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#66109 - 03/20/06 03:24 AM Re: the one liners with big lessons........
jawjaw Da Queen Registered: 07/02/03 Posts: 12025 Loc: Alabama	When my Mother said to me one day, "Eat your food! Don't you know there are starving kids in China?" I said, "Name one." I couldn't sit down for a whole week. Another classic, "Don't chew with your mouth open. You sound like a cow with his foot stuck in the mud." JJ
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#66110 - 03/20/06 03:41 AM Re: the one liners with big lessons........
chickadee Member Registered: 09/26/04 Posts: 3910 Loc: Alabama	Ha ha, JJ, you're a jewel. Newfoundlanders have an accent and a way with words. I occassionally heard...Ya gat da face only a mudder could luv. And on the china thing...in same Newfie accent(me) "Well, I wants ta live there, then." Whomp! chick
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#66111 - 03/19/06 04:13 PM Re: the one liners with big lessons........
Searcher Member Registered: 10/11/05 Posts: 645 Loc: boise	You guys gave me the first laugh of the day!!! Keep em comin!!!! JJ, you haven't changed one bit! I can just imagine the look on your mother's face when you said "name one"....hahahahaha Chick- didn't know you were from Newfoundland. Would love to hear that accent. I love accents.... Here's my dad: "Jo, if you were a goose, you wouldn't know which way to fly!" HUH??? I felt real bad about the kids in China - I'd start eating that okra and wonder if the little Chinese kids gagged too.
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#66112 - 03/19/06 04:32 PM Re: the one liners with big lessons........
Searcher Member Registered: 10/11/05 Posts: 645 Loc: boise	o yeah, Here's my Mother standing at the top of the stairs to the basement (where Dad was always working on something or other) "JAAAAAAAAAAAAACK, come up here to these kids!!!!!" We'd scatter. Dad never got up the stairs. But once. oooooo, still remember that one. Big philosophy on life from Dad : "Ain't no one ever said it was fair, JO!".....
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#66113 - 03/19/06 05:24 PM Re: the one liners with big lessons........
smilinize Member Registered: 11/08/03 Posts: 3512 Loc: outer space	quote: Originally posted by Sandi: I also heard, When my father wrecked my car, and I needed a new one: "can't get blood from a stone" We had a little twist on the blood from a stone saying. My Dad would loan money to some loser and someone would say he would never be repaid because the borrower had nothing then they would add, "You can't get blood from a turnip," Daddy would always say, "Yeah, but you can get the turnip." And he always got repaid too. smile
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#66114 - 03/19/06 06:54 PM Re: the one liners with big lessons........
jawjaw Da Queen Registered: 07/02/03 Posts: 12025 Loc: Alabama	Oh yeahhhh....we use to say that about the turnip too... How bout this one, "Honey, your Mamma didn't raise no fool....no sir ree...you're self made." My Uncle use to tease me with that one. It took years for me to realize it WASN'T a compliment. JJ
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#66115 - 03/20/06 01:30 AM Re: the one liners with big lessons........
chatty lady Writer Registered: 02/24/04 Posts: 20267 Loc: Nevada	Here are a few dandies I heard growing up... If it ain't soup, its nuts..... Do you think money grows on trees?... If it weren't for bad luck we'd have no luck at all... You seem to be growing in leaps and bounds... Inch by inch, its a cinch... If I had a penny for everytime you did that I'd be a rich woman... Sometimes you're as dumb as a rock... A penny is as a penny does... Stop crying, do you want your face to freeze like that?... Close that door, were you born in a barn... What, do you think we're made of money child... and the best one: Eat your spaghetti there are starving kids in Italy... Those starving kids sure do get around... [ March 19, 2006, 10:32 PM: Message edited by: chatty lady ]
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#66116 - 03/20/06 01:41 AM Re: the one liners with big lessons........
smilinize Member Registered: 11/08/03 Posts: 3512 Loc: outer space	How about "it's chicken one day, feathers the next." smile
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#66117 - 03/20/06 01:04 PM Re: the one liners with big lessons........
Dotsie Founder Registered: 07/09/08 Posts: 23647 Loc: Maryland	With five kids always in and out: "Close the door. We aren't heating the whole neighborhood." One of Mom's wiser sayings: "When there's a will, there's a way." I can still hear her saying that. It's partly the reason for my determination in life. I've always had a strong will. And I've learned by having a couple strong willed children that we aren't the easiest to raise.
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