What is the quote or saying you were taught by your parent(s) as a child that yo

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   Langknowposted 13 years ago

   Always get back up and do the things you want to do .

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   Admiral_Joraxxposted 13 years ago

   My parents use to tell me when I was a kid, to keep on practicing skills I wanted to have. its kind of a "What you lack in skill, you make up in numbers". Skills can be learned and I kept this principle until now.

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   Johnrr631992posted 13 years ago

   Life is like a box of chocolates... you never know what you might get

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   poshcoffeecoposted 13 years ago

   What goes around ...comes around. This is one that sticks with me and I believe it to be true. Same as....' what you reap you sow'

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   delmer47posted 13 years ago

   My Mom used to say "don't go anywhere important looking stupid." Words I have lived by all my life :-)

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   Shootingstarzposted 13 years ago

   haha...Do as I say, not as I do! My parents were ALWAYS saying that to me, and now that I have children of my own, I find myself saying the same thing to them.

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   Indigitalposted 13 years ago

   "If you were wide, you'd of not done that" - I don't know where this comes from, if it's Geordie quotes, since I'm from Newcastle, or just my Dad's very weird tongue. I've found out it means being one step ahead, and understand if I'd of thought something through it would have never happened.
   
   I.e. I took £5 out of the spare-change jar when I was 11, the next day - I couldn't get the Bike me and my Mother had went to see. When I sat down with my Dad, annoyed that it was due to me taking £5 out of the jar, my Dad would say "If you had of been wide, you could've just asked for £5 and I would've gave you it"
   
   While it may sound weird, it was something that's led me to always ask before taking and always think before doing. I work off what my Dad said.

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   Glosheiposted 13 years ago

   My Dad always said,
   "Treat others as you expect to be treated."
   
   "Don't do that"
   why? "
   Because I said so"

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   BrookeOnLifeposted 13 years ago

   If something that is particularly disappointing happens, my mom would say:
   
   When one door closes, another one opens...
   
   Growing up in a famiy of boaters, this one was tossed around before storms and during beautiful sunsets:
   
   Red at night, sailors delight.  Red in the morning, sailors take warning.

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    ligiaoglposted 13 years ago

    Be greatful for what you have..............................

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    justateacherposted 13 years ago

    "That's as worthless as teats on a boar hog!"
    "I'm the mom, that's why!"
    "That's all she wrote 'Dear John, Bring the Saddle Home!"
    "Eat it or starve!"
    "You will always have a friend in a book!"

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    prasan49posted 13 years ago

    epudu kastapadithe,future lo sukapadthav...
    epudu sukapadithe,future lo kastapadthav.

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    Barbsbitsnpiecesposted 13 years ago

    My beautiful parents taught me: "Life is what you make it".

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    dipsmiposted 13 years ago

    every thing has something positive in it!i follow it till today...

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    ModernDisneyGirlposted 13 years ago

    My parents always told me the following : "No Blood. No Pain. No Gain." And it's true. the harder you worker, and the more it hurts, the better the outcome generally is.

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    Reynold Adadeposted 13 years ago

    my mother always told me that whatever you do in life do it fully and do it well or else it is not worth doing at all and this has helped me to this day by reminding me never to give up in life and also when i decide to help someone i help them all the way and dont leave them somewhere in the middle

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    elizabeth21posted 13 years ago

    My granny often says "It's enough if you know to do ..you don't have to do".

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    dreamsandrealityposted 13 years ago

    "be yourself always" Do not have to please everybody. Who is your true friend will recognize when you need it most.

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    Adams-ebooksposted 13 years ago

    'Worrying is like a rocking chair,
    Its something to do, but it gets you nowhere!'

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    whoisbidposted 13 years ago

    One that comes to mind is from my father "Don't crap on your own doorstep"

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    -Astaroth-posted 13 years ago

    Growing up, my mom used a lot of quotes, especially when she wanted me to do something
    She would wake me up saying "Early bird catches worm" so i'd get out of bed.
    She would also say "Don't cry over spilled milk" to make me feel better when im sad or regretting something i did. She also would make up a few quotes at times until i was old enough to know better

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    Reniqueposted 13 years ago

    My mom's favorite was "a hard head makes a soft behind." 
    I still use this with my kids and everyone else who hates to listen.

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    greenshellmusselposted 13 years ago

    Treat others the way you want to be treated .

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    jcoopposted 13 years ago

    When we were being babies and complaining about something stupid my mom would sing, "I'm mean, I'm mean, if you know what I mean, I'm mean."  I sing it all the time to my students.

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    bangla-newsposted 13 years ago

    My parents taught me to think and work with humanity that I will bear in my character until death.

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    Mansoor Saeedposted 13 years ago

    Don't Lie
    
    Don't make faces it will be stuck like this for ever

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    terrektwoposted 13 years ago

    look before you leap, my dad used to say it often, I find myself saying it to my children.

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    Ivel01posted 13 years ago

    whenever I had a nightmare, my mother would tell me to "think about a beautifull YELLOW rose, opening in the murning sun ...
    
    I still do that ... I still have terrible nightmares ... I tell the same thing to my daugters now ...

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    asmaiftikharposted 13 years ago

    Do not open the door without knowing the person.

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    Lilith Edenposted 13 years ago

    "Ce sera sera. Whatever will be will be."
    
    -Lilith

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    Cabo Photographerposted 13 years ago

    My father used to say, ¨Do as I say not as I do!¨ Whether or not this has had a negative or positive impact on my life has yet to be determined

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    kripkrip420posted 13 years ago

    What are you, 5? Still get that to this day...

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    blueangel15posted 13 years ago

    "Life doesn't require you to be the best but to do your best"

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    CloudExplorerposted 13 years ago

    "Say it Aint So"
    "Now that's what I'm taking about"
    "Here we go Again"
    "Didn't I tell you not to"
    "What is your problem now"
    "What did I just say to you"

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    shampa sadhyaposted 13 years ago

    If I start mentioning one after the another then it will take whole lot of time but I would definitely like to share with others one common preaching of my parents.
    
    They taught me " Never criticise others rather try to appreciate their qualities." I now teach this to my nine and a half year old son.

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    MarleneBposted 13 years ago

    This is fun! What a reminder that my mother would tell me to always live my life as if someone could snap a picture of me at any time and post it up on a billboard. Her goal was to remind me to never do anything I would be ashamed of people knowing about it.

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    mandyfposted 13 years ago

    You are an individual and I treat you as such. That is why you suffer different consequences than your sister and why she suffers different consequences that your brother. It is the fact that you are an individual with different needs and wants and aspirations than anyone else in this world that I love you and take the time to cater to your individuality rather than your normalness.

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    mary615posted 13 years ago

    "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you"

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    stephaniedasposted 13 years ago

    "Six one, half dozen the other"
    My mom has always and will always repeat this phrase, and has permanently marked me with it.

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    stanwshuraposted 13 years ago

    My parents weren't endeared to offering up actual life lessons, especially in the quotable form.  Most of the time they were "just there" or worse.  Not a pity party - just a fact.
    
    I can remember a few quotes that my father often used, but they were cliche', and very Archie Bunkerish and therefore warped.  I eventually learned NOT to take his utterings as philosophically fruitful - and CERTAINLY not repeatable.
    
    If you knew my father, this post alone would confirm beyond any doubt that I am about as different from him as any two members of the same species can be.
    
    
    Most people who say that your parents are your primal influence and the ones who shape who you become usually mean that you adopt and integrate their attitudes and practices.
    
    I'm a long-haired, bespectacled, politically active and outspoken liberal, writer/pianist/intellectual type. 
    
    My short-haired, "old-man" glasses-wearin' (presbyopia - reading glasses), whines-about-"all those politicians"...*AIN'T*
    
    The effect can also be that of repulsion (or revulsion) or both!  Our relationship has softened (he's mellowed, and I've gained perspective and MUCH needed contextual experience).
    
    But, I am very different person from either my mom or dad - even to the point that I would (and did, rather early) prefer my way of expressing things to theirs.
    
    As in physics, every action has an equal and opposite reaction.  I did not become my parents.

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    wiseoldaccountantposted 13 years ago

    Two wrongs don't make a right.
    
    It seems like everyone twists things to reach the conclusion they want. There are more than one wrong in the twisted logic.

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    Erika Jauch Irbyposted 13 years ago

    They quote my mom used to always tell me that I still use today is: "Do as I say and not as I do."

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    biselahoreresultposted 13 years ago

    Putter tian nal study karya kar te wada afsar bani

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    danrfkposted 13 years ago

    Son if you don't use your head you might as well have two rear ends

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    kdawsonposted 13 years ago

    the only advice my father ever gave me that has held up is "never do business with a preacher."

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    Rogochuksposted 13 years ago

    Do unto others as you would have done unto you.

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    rhcpf94posted 13 years ago

    When you grow up and choose your career:
    
    If you do something you love, you will never have to do work a day in your life.

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    patbessposted 13 years ago

    Always have goals in life and go after them!

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    LanaLuposted 13 years ago

    “Apple doesn’t fall far from the tree”
    “if you can dish it, then you should be able to take it”
    “always appreciate what you have, and work with what you’ve got”

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    madtalposted 13 years ago

    Why fart and waste it when you can burp and taste it. (Dad taught me that one, not Mom.)

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