Tyne Daly: Maxine Gray

Quotes 

• Maxine Gray : Sean, you have an office full of competent social workers.

  Sean Potter : No, I don't. I have an office full of well-intentioned, but under-experienced social workers. I need someone who knows the ropes and who's motivated.

  Maxine Gray : I'm not motivated.

  Sean Potter : Well, sitting at your desk isn't going to make your son get better.

  [Maxine becomes upset] 

  Sean Potter : Which is none of my business, of course. Without you, this case is going nowhere, so like it or not, you've got a decision to make.

• Lauren Cassidy : How come you teach babies to burp and then you tell kids not to burp?

  Amy Gray : It's the cycle of life, honey.

  Maxine Gray : That's right. We learn things and then we unlearn them.

• Gillian Gray : Maxine, you should come to Ned's music and movement class sometime.

  Maxine Gray : Music and movement? He's four months old. The only music and movement he should be doing is in his diapers.

• Lauren Cassidy : Do you still have birthdays when you're dead?

  Maxine Gray : You do as long as people remember them.