"I don't have any kids."
I heard my Dad say that once when a man came to the door about me and my 5 brothers causing problems in the neighborhood. LOL
"I don't have any kids."
I heard my Dad say that once when a man came to the door about me and my 5 brothers causing problems in the neighborhood. LOL
Crops are harvested, animals are killed.
This one came from a fella who trained me as a millwright. Even watched him get lit up by his pacemaker and almost die.
“ You gotta have want to son. You can’t do anything in life without want to.”
“Never miss work on a Friday or Monday”
Go 'head if thats what you wanna do. You get killed, me and your ma can just make another....
When I fussed about having to cut grass or lift anything heavy when I still lived at home
"That's what I had a son for"
"They are who we thought they were"
You can dress a fat chick up, but you cant fix stupid
No good deed goes unpunished
You’ll never make money workin for somebody else
It’s all over but the cryin
He’ll work to keep from workin
This will hurt me worse than it will you
I never read an obituary that said hard worker
I woulda let him walk...
Can’t shoot em in the bed.
Takes a lot of “data boy”s to make up for one screw up
Well hell, don’t take my word for it...
I been doin that since you was sh!ttin in your britches
How the hell did you miss him?! You had it stuck up his a$$!
Perception is reality.
Man’s word is his bond.
"It's lonely at the top, get used to it."
"Invest in people. Be kind when you want to be harsh. Show empathy even when it isn't warranted."
"Bless people with what God blesses you."
I'm going to heaven for the weather and hell for the company.
Be dangerous, unpredictable, and make a whole lot of noise.
None of my business but..... which comes right before he told me what he thought about something
Let's take a walk around - Always said to me or my brother when we questioned something while under his roof. It still gets said to this day.
Every voice mail he has ever left me starts with "Tripp, this is Dad" like somehow I don't know who it is. I know I will miss this one day.
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