I love quotes and sayings. I really love the ones I grew up with that my parents or grandparents used to say, and I thought it would be fun to ask my Facebook friends the following question:

“What saying or phrase that your parents or grandparents used to say to you do you repeat now that you are an adult?

The answers came flowing in, and I compiled the list.

I will now share with you, my readers, to see if you have any that might be like these.

If you want to add some new ones to this list, feel free to post on line or write in to me.

All of these quotes were said with love and never meant to cause harm in any way.

“I don’t care what their mom is letting them do, I’m your mom.”

“Mind over matter.”

“Put your wishes in one hand and poop in the other and see which fills up faster.”

“Two half wits don’t make a whole wit.”

“And what did we learn from this?”

“Things are going to change around here.”

 “Your eyes are bigger than your belly.”

“I am going to wring your bloody neck.”

“The world needs ditch diggers, too.”

“Would you like six weeks in the hospital (holding up left hand), or sure death (holding up right hand)?”

“Isaac, Eric, Randy or whoever you are.” Mom had to go through seven names before she got the right one.

“People in hell want ice water!”

”Do whatever the hell you want — it’s all you ever do anyway.”

 “Life is not fair — get used to it.”

“That will go over about as well as a fart in church.”

“That’s life.”

“You plant potatoes, you get potatoes.”

“Home again, home again, jiggity jig.”

“Eey-yi-yi-yi-yi” and the rest are looks and head shakes from my dad.

“I hope you are blessed with 10 kids just like you!”

 “Those who ignore history are bound to repeat it.”

“Just wait till you have kids!”

 “Bet me!”

“Go get me ________ (fill in the blank), your legs are younger than mine.”

“It’s not that I don’t trust you.”

“Because I said so!”

 “If you ain’t listenin’, you ain’t learnin’.”

“If Johnny jumps off the ore dock, does that mean you are going to jump off, too!”

“In or out?” This was said usually after banging the back screen door a bunch of times.

“You can do anything you set your mind to.”

Tribune Publisher Scott Schmeltzer’s column appears every Thursday.