What did your mother tell you that you still remember?

I remember when i was 15 and I wanted to date this 17 year old boy and my mom threw a fit. She told me that was too much of an age difference, and i came back with the fact that my mom is 14 years older than my dad. She sat me down and we had a talk about dating and boys and all. The one line i remember most is when she said, "Go for a younger man, they never mature anyways." Now, I know what she's talking about. Granted im not that much older, but I understand what she meant.

my mother told me, "don't listen to what people say, look at what they do." she was so right about that. people can you look you in the eye and tell you anything they want you to hear and then just do the exact opposite. so when someone would make all these promises to me i would wait and actually watch what they would do before i learned whether i could trust them or not. it has helped me greatly throughout my life.

My mother used to always tell me whenever i got less marks that its not the end of the world. The world is full of new opportunities. Move on. This has helped me a lot in dealing with failures. ~Pinks~

Mom always told my sister and I that there is no stupid question, just the one's you don't ask. She always said 'follow the trail of the money' oh how true in so many things.

My mother always says that try to be very good to everyone even who have treated badly with you, cause you are not bad. Also says your hand & head must be be always busy upto your end, laziness is your biggest enimy who is living in youself only. Also Health is wealth & you can't do anything in your life without health. & much more. & now I am transfering all these thoughts to kids.

hello today is the mother day so happy mother's day and my mother told me that in future u never hurt anybody and become a good human being in life. You must be helpful for everybody in life.

Wow. I can't follow the adding of 9's.I just memorized 9 plus 1-9.I remember some of her favorite sayings. One is " There is more room out than in". She was talking about gas but I think it fits when talking to my gay friends that are still in the closet. She was for gay rights and I think she will like my new version.

I know that this sounds odd, but the one thing my mom told me that I still remember and that it has been quite useful for me to remember was that " Life is not fair." . I know, I know, I could remember the millions of nice things my mom told me, and I do, but none has proved as useful as this one. Oh wait.. maybe the " when you marry him you'll be marrying his family too" that one kind of proved to be true as well LOL

Before my mama would punish me she would say "This is going to hurt me worse than it is going to hurt you." Well, now how in the world was that true. She was the one dishing out the punishment not on the receiving end. How could this hurt her and if it was going to hurt her worse than it hurt me why in the world would she do such a thing. Just didn't make sense. Well..........................along came my three kids. Yep, Mama was exactly right. "This is going to hurt me more than it is going to hurt you" Yep, I said it. I meant it too. It hurt me so bad to have to punish my kids. I knew I had to for their benefit to learn how to act but almost every time I went to punish them I would hear my mama telling me "This is going to hurt me more than it is going to hurt you." Then I'd proceed to tell my kids the same thing. Then.................. along came the grandchildren. Wow! It hurts more to punish them. I guess it is the aging process. The older we get the mellower we get. LOL My precious mama and daddy have passed away, but you know my mama and daddy became the smartest people that I knew. Isn't that strange how they are so dumb when we are young and the older we get wow the become the wisest?

My Mother told me plenty growing up and even now since I live with her. A lot of them I remember, some I forget. but they make a lot of sense. So here goes. The world is a cruel world and don't forget it. Never left your right hand know what your left hand is doing. I am sorry I told my ex that cause he used it against me so I know that advice is sound and real. whenever you get paid, put some away for later because you don't know when it will rain. Also put some to your bills and don't pay it all at once. Whenever you have something you want to do ask yourself these three questions. Will My Parents approve? Will God approve? Will I approve?

I remember her insisting that when I was grown up I would be married to the yellow-haired boy who lived next door. He was an OK playmate in grade school, but trust me on this, not marriagable material. And not to put on "airs" or rise above my "station" and to eat all the food on my plate because elsewhere in the world there were starving children. She told me it was ok to have holes in your clothes if they were neatly patched, but never to go out in dirty underwear because you never knew when you might end up in the hospital. I remember that she never said the 3-letter word that starts with S aloud and even whispered when she spelled it. Even if there was nobody else around for 1/2 mile. Oh, and she was always yelling "Stop using those big words!" Which, of course, was the motivation for me literally reading the dictionary in order to learn to use even bigger ones just to annoy her. She was always saying "Sticks and stones will break your bones but words will never hurt you" but whenever somebody, especially my Dad used a word she didn't like, she would go OFF and usually hit them.

I remember although my mother probably hated my father, she never spoke badly of him, although he always spoke badly of her... She was the better parent for that and many other reasons. I will always remember that. My father had a new family and acted as though his "old" family meant little to him... Long story.

Hi Im a newbie here. Well, for me, one thing that my mother use to tell us that I will never forget is that she is about to pass away. I was just 7 yrs when she started telling it to me and my sibling, thinking why does she have to always make us cry. Later on I realize that what she just wanted to do is to prepare us so that when that time comes well be able to stand strong and so I did. My mom passed away when I was just 14 and until now my friends keep on telling me how amazed they are of me because I was able to handle things easily at a very young age. Thanks to my mom I grew up strong and in control of my life. Add me up..