Things your Father always said growing up

[Annie Oakley]

My dad is now lost in Alzheimers. The most important things he ever said to me.....

"You can judge the character of a man by watching how he deals with someone who is weaker than he is."

"I love you".....how I would love to hear that again.

"Don't ever judge a person by the group that they belong to but by the content of their character."

"Think for yourself"

 

[Roadie]

"I see said the blindman" corny I know, but I wish I could hear him say it again.

Mine too! Wow, has it really been 22 years?
My dad didn't get to see me become a father, and a grandfather. He would have loved telling me: "See, I told you so!" lol

 

[truegrit]

"If you won't do something right don't do it at all"

 

[Scout]

recently it's been "I'm going to talk to my lawyer and see what I can do about that."

 

[NEOCON]

"If you're going to be stupid, you have to be tough"

"It"s not what you have, but what you give"

 

[Root]

Get up and get after it.

If I have to tell you again, I won't be using words.

You try that again and you and me both are going to the hospital. You to get my foot out of your *** and me to get my shoe back.

 

[gglass]

Don't touch that... Er, um... Never mind.

 

[groovatron]

My pops is full of quotes.....

"See how you are"

"No one MAKES me "feel" anything"

"I'll eat dirt if that's what's on the table"

"Relax"

"That guys dumb as a box of rocks"

"Did you read the instructions?"

"Is it made in the U.S.A.?"

Oh I love my father.....he's as good of a man as they come.

 

[ludlow]

"You Hockey Puck!"

 

[public servant]

"Children should be seen and not heard"...turns out he was correct.

In the part of his 67 years that I can remember...I never heard him swear. His favorite expletive..."horse feathers"!!!


Here's to our fathers...

 

[tyler34]

"If you're going to be stupid, you have to be tough"

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n3Mn6V1IzHw]YouTube - If Your Gonna Be Dumb... - Roger Alan Wade[/ame]

 

[hornadylnl]

"the lone ranger on a fast moving horse will never see it from 31". He used to tell me that when he would help me on a project and I was stressing about making something perfect.

 

[jmiller676]

"You couldn't see the forest because of the tree."
"Aren't ya glad you listened to your old man?"

 

[Blue Tile Spook]

I know that this is supposed to be an "our father's advice to us" thread, but I kinda like the one the saying that I came up with for my son since he is a prodigious talker:

"Son, you've got two ears and one mouth. That means that you're supposed to listen twice as much in life as you talk."

At 12 y.o., he fails to grasp the significance of this.

 

[jblomenberg16]

double tap

 

[jblomenberg16]

Blue Tile, that's a pretty good one.

My dad used to always say:

"Always look your coach/teacher/elders/_____/ in the eye when they talk to you."


And, since he was a pastor, and therefore a "preacher," he gave me some good advice about public speaking.

"Tell them what you're going to tell them; then tell them; then tell them what you just told them. That way they might just remember what you said."

 

[Cain71]

My dads favorite was telling me to pull backwards until I heard a pop,thats the sound made when your head comes out your a**.

 

[public servant]

 

[Integraholic]

My grandpa always used to say, "Wish in one hand, s**t in the other. See which one fills up first."

 

[Blue Tile Spook]

jblomenberg, that is another area that I am still working on with my son. He doesn't make consistent eye contact when talking to anyone older than he is, he doesn't like to say the word "yes", preferring a small head nod or "yeah", and shoulder shrugs for when he is supposed to say the word "no".

From my military days: "Speak up and answer like you got a pair, boy!"