Multitasking Mom

Mother is a verb, not a noun. - Shonda Rhimes

Sons are the anchors of a mother's life. - Sophocles

The best place to cry is on a mother's arms. - Jodi Picoult

The best part of him ran down his mother's legs. - Jackie Gleason

This is really a lovely horse. I once rode her mother. - Ted Walsh

A mother is one to whom you hurry when you are troubled. - Emily Dickinson

Jesus was a Jew, yes, but only on his mother's side. - Archie Bunker

I owe a lot to my parents, especially my mother and father. - Greg Norman

Obedience is the mother of success and is wedded to safety. - Aeschylus

She's descended from a long line her mother listened to. - Gypsy Rose Lee

The motivation of all artists is, "Look at me, Mum". - Sebastian Horsley

A man's mother is his misfortune, but his wife is his fault. - Walter Begehot

My mom always said normal is just a cycle on the washing machine. - Wynonna Judd

I've never struck a woman in my life, not even my own mother. - WC Fields

The story of a mother's life: trapped between a scream and a hug. - Cathy Guisewite

Mother - that was the bank where we deposited all our hurts and worries. - T Dewitt Talmage

Now, as always, the most automated appliance in a household is the mother. - Beverly Jones

My mother hated me. Once she took me to an orphanage and told me to mingle. - Phyllis Diller

The only thing a lawyer won't question is the legitimacy of his mother. - WC Fields

The influence of a mother in the lives of her children is beyond calculation. - James E Faust

Every boy should have two things: a dog and a mother willing to let him have one. - Unknown

The only place you’re sure to find love is at the end of a letter from your mother. - Bruce Lansky

My mother had this amazing attitude in the face of everything, including when she got cancer. - Bill Clinton

There's a reason some people think they can achieve anything. They listened to their mother. - Unknown

A suburban mother's role is to deliver children obstetrically once, and by car forever after. - Peter DeVries

Sayin' grace - it's just thankin' Mother Nature, whose 1st name just happens to be Grace. - Archie Bunker

No man succeeds without a good woman behind him. Wife or mother, if it is both, he is twice blessed indeed. - Godfrey Winn

My mother always used to say, "The older you get, the better you get. Unless you're a banana." - Betty White

Honolulu - it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother. - Ken Dodd

What my mother believed about cooking is that if you worked hard and prospered, someone else would do it for you. - Nora Ephron

I am one of those cliff-hanging Catholics. I don't believe in God, but I do believe that Mary was his mother. - Martin Sheen

When I moved out of my mom's house at 18 I was almost as sad to leave her sewing machine behind as anything else. - Beth Ditto

In Hollywood, you play a mom, and the next thing you know, you're on The Golden Girls. They age you so fast. - Gabrielle Union

In most homes, the father is concerned with parking space, the children with outer space, and the mother with closet space. - Evan Esar

To describe my mother would be to write about a hurricane in its perfect power. Or the climbing, falling colors of a rainbow. - Maya Angelou

A mother's heart, a mother's faith, and a mother's steadfast love were fashioned by the angels and sent from God above. - Unknown

Worrying is less work than doing something to fix the worry. Everybody wants to save the earth; nobody wants to help Mom with the dishes. - P.J. O'Rourke

My mother was a reader, and she read to us. She read us Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde when I was six and my brother was eight. I never forgot it. - Stephen King

When you are a mother, you are never really alone in your thoughts. A mother always has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child. - Sophia Loren

My mother had a slender, small body, but a large heart - a heart so large that everybody's joys found welcome in it, and hospitable accommodation. - Mark Twain