E. W. Howe Quotes

When you wake up one day and say, "You know what? I don't think I ever need to sleep or have sex again." Congratulations, you're ready (to have children).

I'll never get sick of raising my children, but other people might get sick of them.

Of children as of procreation -- the pleasure momentary, the posture ridiculous, the expense damnable

It is no hard matter to get children; but after they are born, then begins the trouble, solicitude, and care rightly to train, principle, and bring them up.

There are so many common occurrences in raising children that people just can't seem to figure out.

I'm living a life. I have nine children.

My mother and father have also raised five boys so they know there's only so much that can be controlled.

There's no road map on how to raise a family: it's always an enormous negotiation.

Raising children is an enormously important part of life. I think one of the most important, or the most important, period.

I have 'Parents' magazine in my home.

I take my hat off to mums who have lots of kids. Anyone that says being a mum isn't a full-time job has obviously never had any.

I've sort of remarried a few years ago and have had a couple more children in the last couple of years. And so home life is taking up a lot of my time.

I know of no more sacred duty than to rear and educate a child.

Bringing up children is not a real occupation, because children come up just the same, brought or not.

I'm a mother of three children, and we do make mistakes.

Since civilizing children takes the better part of two decades--some twenty years of nonstop thinking, nurturing, teaching, coaxing, rewarding, forgiving, warning, punishing, sympathizing, apologizing, reminding, and repeating, not to mention deciding what to do when--I now understand that one wrong move is invariably followed by hundreds of opportunities to be wrong again.

The bearing and the training of a child Is woman's wisdom.

I conveniently forgot to remember that people only have two hands, or, as another parent once said of having a third child, it's time for a zone defense instead of man-to-man.

People often ask me, "What's the difference between couplehood and babyhood?" In a word? Moisture. Everything in my life is now more moist. Between your spittle, your diapers, your spit-up and drool, you got your baby food, your wipes, your formula, your leaky bottles, sweaty baby backs, and numerous other untraceable sources-all creating an ever-present moistness in my life, which heretofore was mainly dry.

Our children give us the opportunity to become the parents we always wished we'd had.

Being a parent wasn't just about bearing a child. It was about bearing witness to its life.

I’ve noticed that one thing about parents is that no matter what stage your child is in, the parents who have older children always tell you the next stage is worse.

Having and raising children is doing something with your life! ... And I have to say that having your kids is one of the greatest things you can do.

Children can be your heartache. But that doesn't matter, you have to go on and have them . . . it works out.

Raising a child is like taking care of someone who's on way too many shrooms, while you yourself are on a moderate amount of shrooms. I am not confident in my decisions, but I know you should not be eating a mousepad.