My kids and my staff at work are no doubt tired of hearing me quote my mother. But it’s striking how many of her lines ring true, or at least memorable.
- Learn to read and you can teach yourself anything else
- The only thing you can tell a volunteer is “thank you”
- Suffering builds character
- That’s the price of beauty
- Your shoes determine how dressed up you are (to me who’s had bad feet since grammar school)
I wonder which of my lines will stick with my sons.