Mom Sayings
 

Some were good - some not so good -
Any that you recall from your family?

"Some people just hate to have their opinions confused by facts" - when Man was 'on a roll'

"Dibble dabble, play in the gravel" - when child was playing in the sand/gravel after a rain

"I made it to be good" - when complimented on something she had cooked

"Let sleeping dogs lie" - when asked about circumstances surrounding her divorce

"Perfection is impossible; however, excellence is attainable" - when commenting on something she or I had made

"No point in crying over spilled milk - there's the bucket and sponge - go clean it up" - pretty much her approach to a lot of things.

You made your bed now lay in it. - Bad choice of a marriage partner.
There are lots more, I have to wait for them to pop into my head. Been many years since I heard them. My Granddaughter comes up with things my Mom would have said. My Mom died 2-3 years before DGD was born. Could some be from the genes? Most of her sayings were not the norm.

My Nana: "Goodness gracious, Godness Agnes!"

I miss my Mom.

'your face is going to freeze like that' when making a strange face. i never understood until i was an adult that if you continually make the same face, your face will develop lines in those areas :)

"Do you want a medal or a chest to put it on?" (Sarcastically said when I accomplished any type of chore.)
By the time I was 11, guess what my answer was? I must say that I did get the best chest of the family.....
Fast forward a few decades to being a mother of an Eagle Scout. I finally got my medal in 2013.

My Grandma B:

Fida, ishta, or uffda - I'm not sure about the spellings - I THINK they basically meant "I stepped in something I didn't mean to" or "That took me by unpleasant surprise" or "That smells really bad"

For whatever reason, she seemed to mind when the cat was laundering his/her bottom, and she would always push the cat over with one of the above words accompanying the action.

"Monkey see, monkey do" - when attempting to explain that a child will do the same things the parents do

My MIL would occasionally do the H-E-double toothpicks thing, too.

My mom didn't really impart any words of wisdom.

"I only have two hands" When we were waiting for dinner

"I'm shaking like a leaf" When she got overwhelmed

"Pile on top of Pile" When the house was mess.

We always wondered how mom knew things of what my sister and I had done... she always said she had eyes in the back of her head. For the longest time my sister wouldn't watch mom fix her hair because she was afraid she would see those eyes!!

...because I said so!
...if everyone else was jumping off a cliff, would you jump too?
...just wait until your Father gets home!!
...don't be so selfish!
...mercy me
...mercy!!
...well, I declare! (yes, she came from Kentucky)
...I can't have anything! (when we broke something)
...the world doesn't revolve around you!

" if you can't do it right the first time,don't bother"
" it's better to read the directions,and only do it once"
"whistling girls and crowing hens always come to some bad ends"

my gm always said well land sakes alive

One of our favorites spoken by my grandmother "Talk is cheap but it takes money to buy Michelob". My brother always got a laugh out of that cause he drank Michelob and thought she crafted that saying especially for him!

My Moma used to tell my older sister...I hope when you grow up you have 10 kids and their all just like you!! she was a little hellion!

"My doctor keeps giving me tranquilizers, I just don't know how many to give each of you kids!"

How about this one: If you can't say something nice about someone, then don't say anything at all.

My mom has been gone 25 years but I can still hear her say "This too shall pass", "God is in control" It has helped me thru many a crisis.

My grandmother never said a bad word about any one. We all have one very distinct memory of when she attended my cousins bride to be wedding shower.... after she said "I wonder what caught his eye?".

My gm always said, "it's a great world, if you don't weaken!" I now say it!

My mom: "follow the money trail" meaning people's actions (especially politicians) are often influenced by money.

My mom is still with us, which I am grateful for. But for the life of me I can't remember any sayings of her, but I do remember her actions which I find myself copying! Or the tone in her voice when she says something. I keep telling my girls "That's just how my mom says it!" ...oh she says "oh my goodness" alot. My mom is a very kind, gentle lady , I don't remember her saying a bad word in her life.

"Well, bless her heart" whenever they'd say something bad about someone, they follow up with that.

"Give me some sugar" wanting a kiss

"If I get any bigger, Dad will need a piece of chalk to mark where he left off hugging me and go around again" when she was pregnant with my little brothers.

"Oh go fall on your head" when we were needling her in a good humored way (she used to say our heads were hard we wouldn't get hurt if we fell on them)
"I'll give you something to cry about" when we were already crying (never understood that one)

But most of all I remember her trying to figure out my name (I'm the youngest of 4), for a while I thought my full name was "Rich, I mean Bob, I mean Deb, I mean Sue".

My mom did the same thing with me, I was the last of 4 kids, 3 girls and if she was upset and calling me I would hear "Paula, Carla, Gina get down here!!! lol....

In my family you knew when Mom called you by your first and middle name , it was serious so get front and center fast!

She didn't get upset too much. I think I only got 2 spankings in my life. She is only 5 feet tall, and was a kindergarden teacher and just knew how to handle little kids.

I never had a curfew growing up, but she had me so well trained that as long as I lived at home (til 24 years old) I would tell her where I was going, who I would be with. And I would even call her sometimes if the plans changed!!! Who does this with there parents this day and age!!!!

My mom would say, "If your bored, I can find something for you to do." Needless to say we never complained about being bored.

I can honestly say I don't know what being bored is like. There was always something to do growing up and now. Reading, playing outside, cleaning something, crafts, just sitting around enjoying some still time

When we were kids (my two sisters and I), we never put things back where they belonged or returned things so she would say and I'll always remember her for this one (she died 1-1/2 months ago - 96) "Never empty handed to the kitchen go",
Easy to remember, to the point and thinking it might be a threat or something, we returned everything all the time.

This was a wonderful nostalgic thread.

I always said to our son when he was doing his crocodile thing - You want something to cry about?????? I'll give you something to cry about.'

Have a great day! Edie

Or the time my sister and I had come home from lunch and we were happy and whatever, looking forward to a nice lunch and we got the giggles, so much so that we were snorting milk out of our nostrils (that's gross). Well, she made us get up, took our chairs into the living put the chairs in front of each other and made us sit down facing each other and very nicely said "NOW LAUGH." Needless to say, the whole lunch turned into tears, didn't get to finish our lunch before we went back to school and always remembered to save our outrageous giggles for a time we weren't drinking milk.

We never figured out why the giggles and the laughs wouldn't come. Lesson learned! Good Mother. Thanks, oh wise one!!!!!!

Now the son has his sayings - Granddaughter says "Dad I got an A in my advanced math test." "Oh Good, now I don't have to beat you tonight." The kids would laugh like crazy!

" No one is looking at you!"

So true. This phrase gets me thru the day, esp when I head to Walmart in my grubbies. But of course that IS the day that I run into people I know! LOL! Dr. phil has a similar saying...a little more complicated than this brain recalls.

i miss my Mom daily...been almost four years.

" good enough for who it is for".

This was a saying a friends' mother used to say. Hmmmmm....not sure that I like the attitude!

sandy

Grandma's sayings: "close your eyes and what do you see? That's what you'll get" or "wish in one hand and want in the other ." This is when we were whining for something.

"He/she was knew high to a grasshopper." When talking about a young child.

Mom's sayings: " of course you can do ( something) keep at it. " when working on something hard in school.

heard my Grandfather say to a buddy of his, " it's colder than a witches teat" never knew what that meant until older. Lol or if someone is " 2 cents short of a dollar" when someone did something without common sense .

Heard similar if not the same sayings as listed. Brings back memories as the threes three family members are no longer with me. Very sad. I miss them

How fun to read everyone's memories, I see a lot that my mom used. The one - your face is going to freeze that way - was used when we made ugly faces at each other (me and my sisters) and if we crossed our eyes she would say they are going to get stuck like that, then she would tells us that our aunt, one of her least favorite relatives, got her eyes stuck crossed and had to hit her head upside the wall really hard to get them unstuck! And we believed it! But one of my all time favorites that not a lot of people heard was "you are breeding a scab" - isn't that wild!!!! She told us that when we were doing something wrong meaning you were going to get a whippin if you kept it up!

When angry at someone, my mom would say, "She can kiss my foot!" I think she still says that!

"Do you want me to wash your mouth out, with soap?!?" - for being sassy or saying something that sounded like a bad word

"Do you want your face to freeze like that?"

I also remember the phrase, "Well, I Swanee!" Not sure if that was my mom or some other relative, but I remember hearing it a lot. It was a "nicer" way of saying, "Well, I swear!" :)

My mom was a dietitian, her favorite sayings ( which I still say to MY kids!) we're:
"Hot things hot, cold things cold" and " When in doubt, throw it out!" I can't tell you how much iffy food I've tossed hearing her voice I'm my head!

When in doubt , dont.

"You have to suffer to be beautiful." This was said when I objected to her pulling my hair in to a tight ponytail.

God makes them then pairs them, talking about a mismatched couple. Go ask your dad for 1 dollar of entertainment (when she wanted to get rid of a child for a few minute). she had a saying for everything, I should start writing them down. I miss her!

Or the line from "Steel Magnolias"..."If you can't say anything nice, come sit over here by me". Pretty sure that's the way it went.

I also remember "beauty must suffer" during perms. I decided I was fine not beautiful. My mom never used ugly words. When she got really irritated at somebody she would call them a buzzard to herself. That's the worst name she could come up with.