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Because I said so!
Polly Hale, Pedernales EC | Blanco
Kill them with kindness.
Phyllis Suttle, MidSouth EC | Iola
The only teeth you need to floss are the ones you want to keep. (She lived to 102 and had all her own teeth.)
Kathryn Shelton, Wise EC | Paradise
Make your words soft and sweet just in case you have to eat them.
Gary L. Raybon, general manager/CEO | Wharton County EC
If you can’t say anything nice, don’t say anything at all.
R.E. Helmer III, Central Texas EC | Austin
Your brother is not a toy; he is not to be played with. Regarding my much younger brother who we found useful as a subject for interesting physics experiments.
Donna Elliott, Pedernales EC | Austin
Go ask Daddy.
Marsha Pugh, Sam Houston EC | Goodrich
Pretty is as pretty does.
Sarah Lopez, Navasota Valley EC | Teague
The way you’re going, you won’t make it (live to) to 15.
Marc Sefick, Bluebonnet EC | Caldwell
Things that I should have paid more attention to.
Terry Hahn, PenTex Energy | Tioga
Change your underwear every day. You never know when you might be in a wreck.
Nancy King, Bluebonnet EC | Martindale
Quit jumping on the bunk beds. You’ll fall through.
Brian Raatz | Via Facebook
Be kind but firm.
Kathleen Bitikofer, Rusk County EC | Elderville
Never put anything in writing.
Lynne Tuttle Phillips | Via Facebook
Go to your room.
Gary Galloway, Tri-County EC | Weatherford
Have you done the dishes, cleaned the bathrooms, vacuumed? Is dinner planned?
Nancy Rogers | Via Facebook
Walk with a purpose.
Julie Vilas, Bryan Texas Utilities | Bryan
You can play after you do your chores.
Jay Jackson | Via Facebook
You better be home when the streetlights come on.
Ginger Rodgers, Tri-County EC | Granbury
Don’t wear black and blue together. You’ll look like a bruise.
Sarah Walters | Via Facebook
Let’s not and say we did.
Denise Kovar, Central Texas EC | Kingsland
Early to bloom will be early to fade.
Janis Beal | Via Facebook
The most important ingredient in any meal is your hunger.
Leon Castañeda Jr., Panola-Harrison EC | Marshall
Shut the door. Were you born in a barn?
Manford Greninger | Via Facebook
We may be poor, but we can be clean.
Bill Rondeau, Pedernales EC | Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Did you do your homework?
Linda Westerfield | Via Facebook
Ten cuidado, meaning be careful.
Jake Sheeran, Nueces EC | Alice
Treat others with respect.
Brian Culverhouse | Via Facebook
Sit up straight.
Koleta Thompson, Hamilton County EC | Copperas Cove
Be the best you can be.
Minnie Turner | Via Facebook
Children—when they’re young they step on your feet. When they grow up, they step on your heart.
Mary Molder, Tri-County EC | Weatherford
Never judge a book by its cover. And, boy, was she ever right.
Karen Diedrich | Via Facebook
Don’t envy anyone.
Elizabeth Martinez | Via Facebook
How the cow ate the cabbage.
Debbie Fair, Heart of Texas EC | Clifton
Get that frown off your face. Do you want it to freeze that way?
Patricia Holder | Via Facebook
Just keep on keeping on and you are going to get it (a spanking).
Jerry Priddy, Hamilton County EC | Priddy
No running in the house.
Rosie Alvarado | Via Facebook
Eat your dessert first because life is uncertain. Loved that and miss my mom.
Debbie Mobley, Heart of Texas EC | Valley Mills
If you watch the pennies, the dollars will take care of themselves.
Sandy Keyser | Via Facebook
I will always be your best friend.
Karen Millsap, Medina EC | Natalia
If a person talks about others, they’re talking about you, too.
Rhonda Gustafsom | Via Facebook
Don’t fuss about the weather, that’s God’s business.
Debra Walters, MidSouth EC | Montgomery
If your bed isn’t made, the whole room looks messy.
Antoinette Griffin | Via Facebook
Remember who you belong to and act like you have good sense.
Clydell Wallace, Pedernales EC | Lampasas
Would you jump off a cliff just because everyone else is?
Linda Watson | Via Facebook
Carry a dime (for the pay phone booth) and wear clean underwear (in case I went to the hospital). Circa 1977.
Tammy Diaz, GVEC | Schertz
Don’t talk to strangers.
Elizabeth Martinez | Via Facebook
Don’t look back—unless that’s where you want to go.
Selby Fuller, Trinity Valley EC | Wills Point
Do as I say, not as I do. I hated that and have never said it to my kids.
Patricia Puckett | Via Facebook
You make a mess, you clean it up.
Rick Sulik, GVEC | Shiner
What goes around comes around.
Wanda McWhorter Huddleston | Via Facebook
Fat babies can’t smile, but I showed her.
Aleksandra Rolfson, Farmers EC | Wylie
Make yourself useful as well as ornamental.
Sarabeth Allen | Via Facebook
Life is like a roll of toilet paper. The nearer to the end, the faster it goes.
Kay Bowen, Pedernales EC | Austin
Just stay out of trouble and keep learning something every day.
Isabel Johnson | Via Facebook
Getting old is not for sissies.
W. Grant Braly, GVEC | Cuero
Waste not, want not.
Quincy Caviness Mcglaun | Via Facebook
When visiting, knock with your elbows—meaning don’t come empty-handed.
Dan Bowen, Pedernales EC | Austin
Look before you leap.
Karen B. Stevens | Via Facebook
Better get after it, son. That hole ain’t gonna dig itself.
Tom Flynn, Wise EC | Bowie
No news is good news.
Philip Dodd | Via Facebook
Nothing good ever happens after midnight.
Gary Joseff, CoServ | Lantana
Mind your manners.
Lora Horton | Via Facebook
I don’t believe I’d tell that.
Lou Ann Raetz, Pedernales EC | Double Horn
If you can’t say anything nice, don’t say anything at all.
Kenny Adams, Grayson-Collin EC | Lucas
Don’t eat all the ice cream, leave some for me.
Rocky Hansen, Victoria EC | Victoria
Never trust a bull.
Carolyn Fauber, United Cooperative Services | Granbury
Pride goeth before a fall.
Jolene Wickel, Bluebonnet EC | Carmine
You never get anything unless you ask for it.
Gary Sextro, CoServ | Frisco
Jeans aren’t too tight if you can still sit down.
Kristal Schneider, Trinity Valley EC | Mabank
Put on some lipstick. Every old barn could use a new coat of paint.
Marsha Griffin, Bandera EC | Pipe Creek
Don’t do anything that will embarrass me.
Paul Page, Jasper-Newton EC | Kirbyville
She was fine as frog hair.
Kenneth “Gary” Beck, Tri-County EC | Seymour
Many hands make the work light.
Mike Tucker, Central Texas EC | Mason
Did you wash behind your ears?
Curtis E. Lipham, Big Country EC | Truby
It’s Dad’s fault.
Alta Osborne, Wood County EC | Mineola
Don’t talk with your mouth full.
Peter Jelito, Pedernales EC | Leander
Believe nothing of what you hear and only half of what you see.
Carol Coldewey, Central Texas EC | Kingsland
There’s some good in everybody. Sometimes you just have to look a little harder to find it.
Colette Wunderlich, Pedernales EC and Bluebonnet EC | Comal County
Your education is the only thing that can never be taken away from you.
Cally Coleman Fromme, GVEC | Gonzales
Shoulders back, stomach in—if any of the five of us kids slouched.
Carol Farrar, Tri-County EC | Keller
When fool’s gone, sense will come—if it’s not too late. (She insisted on being called Mother, not Mama or Mom.)
Gwendolyn Wooten, Houston County EC | Lovelady
Money may not buy happiness, but poverty never did. Go study.
Mary Bob Smith, Pedernales EC | Blanco
And wash behind “them” ears.
Jack Cleere, Lamar Electric | Reno
This too shall pass.
Lauri Heczko, Bandera EC | Comfort
You’re my baby girl. (Even though I was in my 60s. It’s one of the last things she said to me.)
Cathy Cleere, Lamar Electric | Reno
Just wait until your father gets home.
Mary Garza, Magic Valley EC | Sebastian
If you aren’t sleeping, you aren’t healing.
Deborah “D.B.” Sells, Farmers EC | Greenville
Everything happens for the best.
Regina Wallace, Central Texas EC | Fredericksburg
It could be worse.
Candis Conard, South Plains EC | Lubbock
If you have your health, you have everything.
Dana Sternadel, Fayette EC | La Grange
Let your conscience be your guide. Mom passed away April 19, 2023.
Patty Muhlstein McGehee, Victoria EC | Victoria
Leave a place in better condition than you found it.
Laura Hall, CoServ | McKinney
Watch out with that, you’re gonna poke an eye out.
Rawley Brown, GVEC | Thomaston
Make your bed before you come out of your room. That way you start every day with an accomplishment.
Carol L. Fell, Pedernales EC | Leander
Shoulders back, chin up. Be proud of yourself every day, no matter what.
Terry Brendle-Barkley, United Cooperative Services | Alvarado
Birds of a feather flock together. She always said it so I’d stay away from troublemakers in school. I think it worked.
Sara Hailey, Sam Houston EC | Oakhurst
Put a sweater on, I’m cold.
Gerald Lynn, Grayson-Collin EC | Melissa
There is no tomorrow. Clara Pasion died at 93 years old in Stockton, California, in December 2021. Thank you for bringing her to my mind and heart.
Arleta Lizotte, Bluebonnet EC | South Travis County
Don’t get in Dutch. (That meant: Don’t get in trouble.) I do have Dutch roots, so that may be reflective of that, but she never explained it to me.
Laurita Vodak, Cherokee County EC | Tyler
Take care. I was born in a family of 11 children and was fourth from oldest. She said that every time when one of us would leave the house.
Gene Wilson, Wise EC | Decatur
Don’t make me hit you with my shoe. Mom is small but mighty. Lucky for me she didn’t have great aim at distances, but if I wasn’t cooperating and got close, look out.
Nolan Huckabay, South Plains EC | Childress County
If you plant onions, don’t expect roses.
Pat Coppola, CoServ | Flower Mound
If you can’t say nothin’ nice, don’t say nothin’ at all.
Carol Giese, Bowie-Cass EC | Hooks
The more you stir the cow pie, the more it’s going to stink.
Darlene Smith, United Cooperative Services | Grandview
