Best saying your mom ever said to you

The two best things my mum has ever said is...

~If at first you don't succeed try try try again...
~and tomoro is a new day draw a line under yesterday and start again.

I've had a difficult relationship with my mother. And we would often get into difficult fights when I was a child/teen on Holidays or when we were going to see family (or maybe I just noticed it more at those times because they were supposed to be happy times). One time I was in a very difficult fight with my mother. My great grand aunt (she was my grandmother's aunt) was on her way over. When she got there. She saw that I was crying and frustrated. There was just nothing I could say that would get my mother to just stop yelling at me and just hear me. And what she did was a huge turning point for me and has always stuck with me. Whenever I needed to draw on a sense of comfort I remembered her that day. She walked in and she looked at me and she looked at my mother and she didn't just take my mother's side, she watched and she listened. And it was like someone saw me and heard for the first time in my life. She didn't tell me that no matter what I must be wrong, or punish me, or tell me to just do whatever my mother said, or laugh at me, or belittle me. She stopped and she looked at me with compassion. She walked over and she sat down with me. She put her hand on my back. She said in a very understanding and compassionate voice, "You are upset, you are sad, you have a lot of feelings. I understand how you feel. I remember being your age. I remember feeling so many feelings and needing to be heard and understood." And when she did that all the troubles just stopped for that moment, and for that day. She was the oldest person in my family and she understood what it was like to be 11 years old (or however old I was). It didn't matter what the specifics were (because I knew that I couldn't talk about it, get help, or solve the problems in that one day). I just knew that she genuinely understood and that she felt that my feelings mattered. Just to matter was an important thing. For someone to really care meant something to me. To not have to pretend that everything was ok just to get the fighting to stop. It stopped because she really cared.

" Real girls aren't perfect and perfect girls aren't real....Be the best you can be"

Don't ask questions to which you don't want the answers.

"The land of milk and honey is also the land of goats and bees."

I'm a preacher's daughter. She showed me thru actions more than she ever told me. This was always taught to me thru her actions ALWAYS:

Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast;
it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way;
it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth.
Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never ends.

I only hope I can show this to others 1/2 as well as my mom does.

Wait till your father gets home!

"You know where to find sympathy honey...in the dictionary between *kitten* and syphilis"

Always said with humor of course...passed down from her mom!

Oh you "want"? Well shyt in one hand and want in the other, see which one gets filled first.

"Aww, you don't like it? Did you get a f**king menu??" oh mom, so soft spoken gentle-natured..

"I didn't give the wrong answer, you asked the wrong question!"

My mom's all time favorite quote: "If you can't say something nice, shut-up!"
It was a misquote from Bambi, but still so true! I love my mom....

My mom had a lot of terrible sayings I wouldn't care to repeat, but I like to tell my boys when they don't want to do things that are hard, or eat something new, I tell them it'll put hair on their chest.

She always has had 2 common sayings:

1. "You leave my house hungry, it's your own damn fault"
2. "Short Term Inconvenience, Long Term Convenience" - this was used a lot during Grad school!

"DONT EFF UF!"