Mary Roberts Rinehart Quotes

The real boss in the family is my wife. She didn't want me hanging around the house all day and said, 'You don't want to retire; you'll regret it.' So I listened to her.

Learning to dislike children at an early age saves a lot of expense and aggravation later in life.

If the President had his wife’s will and would use it rightly, our affairs would look much better.

My husband helps take care of our kids.

My parents were on the road a lot in the 1970s. Winifred Kelly, a nurse from the hospital where I was born, was hired to care for me. Her love and discipline had a big influence on my upbringing.

Parenting changes your life, it changes how you hear yourself in relationship to others - which is part of the reason that a bunch of people in the rock community are sick of the goodwill and positive energy and love between these 45-year-old musicians who they preferred when they were 25 and taking stabs at each other.

I mean you're given all these lessons for the unimportant things--piano-playing, typing. You're given years and years of lessons in how to balance equations, which Lord knows you will never have to do in normal life. But how about parenthood? Or marriage, either, come to think of it. Before you can drive a car you need a state-approved course of instruction, but driving a car is nothing, nothing, compared to living day in and day out with a husband and raising up a new human being.

So that's how you're going to fix the family problem. Little Dragomirs. Good idea.

Parents have to get over the idea that their children belong just to them; children are a family affair.

In a husband, there is only a man; in a married woman, there is a man, a father, a mother and a woman.

Children might or might not be a blessing, but to create them and then fail them was surely damnation.

when we are young our parents run our life; when we get older, our children do.

The mother is the first teacher of the child. The message she gives that child, that child gives to the world.

I should have suspected my husband was lazy. On our wedding day, his mother told me: "I'm not losing a son; I'm gaining a couch."

In the life of husband and wife together, fatherhood and motherhood represent such a sublime "novelty" and richness as can only be approached "on one's knees".

Always admired men who had many women. It must be that to a child of a dissatisfied woman the idea of monogamy is hollow.

My children are 12, 12, 8, and 7, which is bad idea, bad idea, bad idea, bad idea, for mom going inside.

I'm quite an example. I have four kids, all from the same wife, all from the same husband.

Of all the Hathaway sisters,” Cam said equably, “Beatrix is the one most suited to choose her own husband. I trust her judgment.” Beatrix gave him a brilliant smile. “Thank you, Cam.” “What are you thinking?” Leo demanded of his brother-in-law. “You can’t trust Beatrix’s judgment.” “Why not?” “She’s too young,” Leo said. “I’m twenty-three,” Beatrix protested. “In dog years I’d be dead.

If I had a chance to do things over again, I might not start singing. It was my husband Doolittle's idea. He pushed me out there, the booger. And I'm out there now, so I might as well make the best of it.

My goal was to have one husband and seven children, but it turned out to be the other way around.

I was supposedly living this glamorous life, but I was crippled by the idea of growing old and where do I go next? The whole age thing—in our industry, it's everything.

I don't like your tone," was Violet's standard answer when one of her children was winning an argument.

The idea of a series of items, following one another docilely, forms the only possible reasonable approach to life if you have to live it with a home and a husband and children, none of whom would dream of following one another docilely.

The good news is we had this idea of cloud computing. The bad news is we were 10 years too early.