These are all quotes from about five years ago…but they’re so good! I may update this one with some more recent ones. They don’t stop saying cool stuff just because I stop posting it!
This place looks familiar every time we drive past it.
— John
John, reacting to a noxious odor, “Shew! Did someone crack a duck?”
Welcome to my world.
— John
Laura to John, who was breathing hard from exercising: “John, you’re hypothesizing!”
Laura at a restaurant: “I hope they hurry up with our food…I get hyper when I’m hungry.”
Dad: “How can you tell?”
John to Laura: “Are you mentally challenged?”
Laura: “Are you vertically challenged?”
John: I know where it is, I just can’t remember where to find it!
(Both): It was a accident…
Laura: “What? I wasn’t listening.”
Laura: “Just because I say something doesn’t mean that I meant exactly what I said.”
John: “I’m hungry.”
Dad: “Laura…hurry up!”
Laura: “Hode on!”
John: “A bookini is mostly a bathing suit.”
John: “I hate hic-ing up ”
John: ‘Dad, sometimes when I want to build something, I don’t know where to start.’
Dad: ‘The beginning is usually a good place.’
John: ‘Yeah, but sometimes I don’t know where the beginning is.’
Laura: “I’m hungry.”
Laura: “Listening doesn’t mean just listening…”
Laura: “Keep the quotes in your pocket!”
John: “My New Year’s revolution was to talk a lot.”
Laura: “Just ’cause they’re quotes doesn’t mean they have to be on the quotes page.”
John: “At Lowe’s, can I potty?”
John: “Potty’s a funny word…”
Laura: “That ain’t right!!”
Dad: “Laura, how many have you seen?”
Laura: “Every one I’ve looked at.”
Laura: “John, don’t talk to me until you shut up!”
Laura: “My burn is burning.”
Laura: “You’ve got enough [quotes] from me already. You’re embarrassing me.”
John: “Philosophy. Whatever that is….oh well, back to the stuff I understand.”
John: “I don’t know a thing I just said.”
Laura: “What color are the white ones?”
Dad, while we were approaching the Johnson City Medical Center: “Hey, looks like they’re starting up the helicopter.”
John: “Maybe they’re taking it for a spin.”
John, while we were circling the monument in downtown Elizabethton, began reading the plaque that’s on it: “Dedicated to Veterinarians of all Wars.”
John: “I don’t like reading big words … so I just guessed at it.”
Laura: I could never go in the military. I’d just die…or break a nail or something…
Laura: “John, you’re weird.”
John: “I know.”
Oh! Here’s a recent one from our trip to Europe:
(After spending about an hour taking night pictures of the clock tower at the Houses of Parliament in London, AKA “Big Ben”)
Laura: “What time is it?”