Oooooh, I thought of a good one. If we asked her what's that for she would reply Cat fur to make kitten britches.....yeah, I don't know what it means either.
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YES! so...I am not alone. My mother also said, "there's too many holes in your head already"
I still have not gotten my ears pierced. I am waiting for my parents to die. Fear runs deep. My mother's words of wisdom were, '' you never escape your early beginnings.'' Thus, no ear piercings.
And it also has always interested me how my father, the atheist, always believed in the netherworld because I should all be going there if I follow any of his directions at all.
""You have to suffer to be beautiful. " Said everytime I jumped when she pulled the knots out of my hair."
And that one too! I hated pointed toed shoes and I still don't see the beauty in crippling women.
You know, ever since I first saw this topic it's made me kind of sad. I can't remember alot of my mom's sayings anymore - being that she's been gone 17 years and I have some memory problems.
I remember her saying "yeah, that'll go over like a lead balloon" and her threat to put each of us kids in a cage till we were 18. If we called "Mom!" too many times, she'd say "call me Suzy!". I was always the idiot child that did just that.
When something was old and finally broke or wore out, she'd say it was ready to "give up the ghost". I didn't realize that was a biblical reference until I was much older.
Wish I could remember more of mom's sayings. I miss her.
I am a foot taller than my mother...got to that fun teenager stage where I was fairly confident she wasn't going to tell me how things were...she informed me...I will cut them off...she then turned and left...I quit....wasn't going to even chance it
My mom had so many sayings but the ones I remember the most are:
I don't run a cafeteria! Translation...eat what I fixed or don't eat. If I had a dollar for everytime she asked any of us Did you wipe your feet? I wouldn't have to work now. Since I had real looong hair I also heard the "Shut up, you have to suffer to be beautiful!"
