My way or not at all...

My daughter, being the independent child that she was (and still is) use to say...
"I want to do it my own self. "

That Dirty Dog

My mom had this way of saying that what you do, comes right back to you...

"What goes over the dog's back comes under his belly." -Viola Bell

Open Minds

Daddy D teaches chemistry and physics, and is a believer in something called "Unit Analysis." Early in his teaching career, he created a bulletin board to promote the concept of unit analysis that said simply, "Open your mind to units." He thought that this was a great bulletin board so he left the letters in place for years. After a few years, the "U" was lost so that the bulletin board read, "Open your mind to nits." Now opening your mind to units is one thing; opening your mind to nits is completely something else.

No apologies necessary...

When my mom thought my room was a bit untidy, she would say,
"This room looks like a whore's nightmare!" - Viola Bell

I never could figure out what a horror's nightmare was, let alone why my room looked like one.

With Apologies to Heidi Fleiss

My Mama used to say an old adage with this twist "You can lead a whore to culture, but you can't make her think." - Laura Gray Thompson

Motor Ahead

As a help the following is just great: "If the motor will fit, the fenders will bend."
My dad said this in situations with pressure to get a job done, one must move ahead regardless of incoming forces. Fight through it.

While we are on that subject...

When the rain would be pouring down on the garden in the back, my dad would gaze out the window and say to my mom, " Think the rain'll hurt the rhubarb?"

This continued for years after the garden was gone and caused quite a few giggles. Now I find myself looking out the same window and thinking it to myself...

Even more rain

Today we had a caller at school who asked if school in northwest Indiana were closed because of the rain. The secretary said no, to which I replied to them what my Mr. Tenney always said:

"They (the kids) ain't sugar, they won't melt."

More Rain

To continue the theme about rain, my dad's favorite saying was "Into everyone's life a little rain must fall." He usually said this in a tongue-in-cheek way when my sisters or I were complaining about trivial matters. - B.W. Thompson

When a Hard Rain's a Falling

Today it rained all day. At one point it was raining so hard I heard from the outer office, "It's raining cats and dogs". Made me think of what my dad, Joe, would say when it looked like a hard rain was a coming.

"It's gonna rain like a cow pissing on a flat rock."

Being a kid, I asked what that meant. He replied, "ever see a cow piss on a flat rock?"

Thanks, mom.

"Your mom always said to hang everything at eye-level." -My husband, after I asked him to stop sticking stray hairs to the shower wall.

Upon waking up in the morning

"I’d stretch a mile if I didn’t have to walk back." - My Dad

Upon retiring to bed

"If it starts thundering and lightening, wake me up because I can't sleep." -Grandpa J.W. Willi