I'm sure my mother could have run the FBI or CIA. She knew everything. I swear, she must have had eyes in the back of her head because she could tell what we were doing without having to be in the same room. I wonder if she ever went to boot camp or had special ops training? I don't know what made her so smart. Maybe your mom said some of these things too:
Sit up straight, you look like the Hunchback of Notre Dame.
No, we can't mail your dinner to the starving children in China.
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Must you hold your fork like a caveman?
Close the door. Where were you brought up - in a barn?
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If you keep on doing those tricks on your bike, you're going to break your legs, then don't come running to me!
Do you think money grows on trees?
Wait 'til your father comes home!
If you don't eat your vegetables, you'll never grow up.
Answer me when I'm talking to you!
Are you sure you brushed your teeth? With a toothbrush and toothpaste?
Did you wash the back of your neck? You know, it belongs to your body too, even though you can't see it.
Stop making those faces or you'll stay like that some day.
No dessert until you clean your plate.
I don't care what her mother said, I said no.
Stop talking back!
You call that clean?
Someday when you're my age you'll understand.
I only hope you'll have children who will give you a hard time like you're giving me now. (A mother's prayer)
And, my most favorite saying of all...
Because I said so!
