Tadashi

By age 10 I thought I had the world completely figured out and really did not need parents anymore

My mom's from Maine -one of her favorites is "That is wicked good" - spoken with a northeast accent

raymo19

"What were we thinking?"

My Dad to my Mom - anytime 1 of the 3 of us did something really egregious. I suspect it had something to do with the circumstances of our births.

Zippy

It's been many, many years since my parents passed, but some things you never forget.

Me: Johnny rides his bicycle to school.
Mom: If Johnny jumped off a bridge would you?

Could never see the correlation, but....

Now Pop was a bit more colorful. I still have a tendency to quote him from time to time.

"Everything works out in the end."

My favorite to this day: "Opinions are like a$$holes, we all have one."

vader1

If we asked permission to do something my did not want to grant he would tell us we could "on the twelfth of never."

fltsfshr

I told you to be in by (pick your time)

Get in here right now! Don't make me come get you!

Wait till your Father gets home!

Then there was my Grandmother. She lived with us. Her favorite sayings came out in Gaelic,

fltsfshr

dean

I wish I had lived at your house. My stepfather forced me to eat whatever was put in front of me. I can't count the number of times I had to gag down cold liver and onions. The worst dinner I recall was when he got it into his head that fried tripe might be something good to have for dinner/torturing me. You decide.

My grandfather had a lot of sayings about a lot of things. Most of them I can't post here. One that I remember was his reply to a very straight-laced female member of the family who was complaining about the pain she had recently experienced in giving birth. My grandfather said, very dryly, totally deadpan, and with his heavy Downeast accent, "Ayuh. They go in a lot easier than they come out."

Kyras

My dad would say, "I don't give a rat's ass."

Also, "Easy come, easy go."

He said those mostly when he was older and on into Alzheimer's, especially "Easy come, easy go."

boltonblue

it seems I may have heard on more than a single occasion from my father " well you can't do it sitting on yer ass"

of course whenever objecting to household rules etc, " no one's forcing you to stay here, don't let the screen door hit you in the ass"

SheDrivesIt

"The starving children in Viet Nam would love to have that food"

SheDrivesIt

"Your mother is a saint --- she shoud be put on a pedestal!"