Mom Lookout

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

By ancestry, I was born to rule. - Nelson Mandela

My family tree could use some pruning. - Unknown

Necessity is the mother of attraction. - Luke McKissack

Fearlessness is the mother of reinvention. - Arianna Huffington

I'm not crazy. My mother had me tested. - Unknown

My parents put a live teddy bear in my crib. - Woody Allen

Our ancestors ... were laborers, not lawyers. - Thomas Jefferson

Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother. - Oprah Winfrey

Besmooch the family name in the eyes of the community. - Archie Bunker

The two things children wear out are clothes and parents. - Unknown

I come from a family where gravy is considered a beverage. - Erma Bombeck

All that I am or ever hope to be, I owe to my angel mother. - Abraham Lincoln

Behind every successful man stands a surprised mother-in-law. - Hubert Humphrey

All the men in my family were bearded, and most of the women. - WC Fields

Writing is conscience, scruple, and the farming of our ancestors. - Edward Dahlberg

I could tell my parents hated me. My bath toys were a toaster and radio. - Rodney Dangerfield

I just got back from a pleasure trip. I took my mother-in-law to the airport. - Henny Youngman

We do not inherit the earth from our parents. We borrow it from our children. - Unknown

Oh, when I was a kid, I was ugly. When I was born, the doctor smacked my mother. - Rodney Dangerfield

No Chinese Catholics are allowed to worship ancestors in their familial temples. - Pope Clement XI

The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother. - Henry Ward Beecher

My mom used to say that Greek Easter was later because then you get stuff cheaper. - Amy Sedaris

Conventions are like coins, an easy way of dealing with the commerce of relations. - Freya Stark

My mom said the only reason men are alive is for lawn care and vehicle maintenance. - Tim Allen

On Valentine's Day, I wired flowers for my mother-in-law, but she found the fuse. - Milton Berle

My mother is Irish, my father is black and Venezuelan, and me - I'm tan, I guess. - Mariah Carey

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

Everyone has ancestors and it is only a question of going back far enough to find a good one. - Howard K. Nixon

Said the daughter: "I don't have to help my Mom with the housework. She knows how." - Unknown

Until you become a parent, you can't begin to discover your capacity for strength, love and fatigue. - Peter Gallagher

A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes. - Robert Frost

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

In 1953 there were two ways for an Irish Catholic boy to impress his parents: become a priest or attend Notre Dame. - Phil Donahue

Hello. I don't believe we have been introduced. R2-D2? A pleasure to meet you. I am C-3PO, Human-Cyborg Relations. - C-3PO

Her capacity for family affection is extraordinary: when her third husband died, her hair turned quite gold from grief. - Oscar Wilde

Our ancestors are very good kind of folks; but they are the last people I should choose to have a visiting acquaintance with. - Richard B. Sheridan

The rhythm of the footsteps, the sound of whatever is coming down the ladder is driving both me and my mom steadily toward peeing our pants. - Kendare Blake

What ya eat ain't got nuttin' to do with how old ya are. That all depends on your ancestors. It's what they call a matter of heresy. - Archie Bunker

If you think that nobility consists of having sixteen ancestors rather than merit, great Prince, then you may - and you may also praise or condemn me. - Franz Grillparzer