Harriet Tubman Quotes

One time, my mom told us, 'No TV.' It was 3 P.M., and I was sneaking it in. She put her hand on the back of the TV to see if it was warm, and it was. So she pulled the cord out of the wall, opened the second-floor window, and just threw it out the window.

Blank House was exactly a nice empty sheet where nothing was accountable because you were so naughty that you were in Blank House.

As a teenager, I was perpetually grounded. I was stubborn rather than rebellious.

Temptations, unlike opportunities, will always give you many second chances.

If you can get the proper definition of trouble, then we can find out who the real troublemakers are.

When I was a kid and got in trouble, I'd always say, Mom, I'm in trouble. Well, Mom, I'm in trouble.

If you want to act like a butthead, your butt is going to get locked up.

If it is a first offense, you ground them and have a talk. The second offense would call for counseling.

My son, George, has been a bad, bad boy! Right, George?

In the Bible, God offered the Pharaoh freedom if he would just let the oppressed people free to go to the land of milk and honey. But the Pharaoh disobeyed, and he was destroyed.

Punish the first insult: because an insult unpunished is the parent of many others.

The smack of the whip is all day long in the ears of those who are on the plantation, or in the vicinity; and it is used with such dexterity and severity as not only to lacerate the skin, but to tear out small portions of the flesh at almost every stroke. This is THE GENERAL TREATMENT of the Slaves. But many individuals suffer still more severely. Many are knocked down; some have their eyes beaten out; some have an arm or a leg broken, OR CHOPPED OFF; and many, for a very small or for no crime at all, have been BEATEN TO DEATH.

When I was five, I discovered a secret box that contained Mummy's stage makeup. It was like finding buried treasure. I tried the rouge, the eye shadow, the lipstick. But I couldn't get the rouge off. Mummy spanked me terribly.

If I played today, I'd stay in trouble. I'd be in the commissioner's office all the time, I guess. I'd be everywhere - including where I wasn't supposed to be.

I haven't gotten in any trouble off the floor.

When I was at school, I got into trouble quite often.

I was a bad kid. I was a really naughty kid. I couldn't read or write. And that was me punishment - going to acting school.

If they're acting like a dog, sometimes you're forced to treat people like dogs.

"And tired" always followed sick. Worst beating I ever got in my life, my mother said, "I am just sick..." And I said, "And tired." I don't remember anything after that.

I was always big on laughs, giving and receiving. It wasn't necessarily good for my teachers. Of course there's times where you go too far. My mom had to tell me, "Boy, if I have to come down to this school one more time, you're gonna get it."

We let off a Dungbomb in the corridor and it upset him for some reason—" "So he hauled us off to his office and started threatening us with the usual—" "—detention—" "—disembowelment—

So remember it, lad. If your head thinks up mischief, your backside's going to pay for it. Brian Fraser to young Jamie

Husband, we talked about this," Persephone chided. "You can't go around incinerating every hero. Besides, he's brave. I like that." Hades rolled his eyes. "You liked that Orpheus fellow too. Look how well that turned out.

Yes,' he said sincerely. 'Such a one deserves peanut butter on the seat of his pants.

There is no surer or more painful way to learn a rule than to be penalized once for breaking it.