Benjamin Spock Quotes

In automobile terms, the child supplies the power but the parents have to do the steering.

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• You know more than you think you do.

  

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• There are only two things a child will share willingly-communicable diseases and his mother's age.

  

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  • Mother
  • Age

• Don't take too seriously all that the neighbors say. Don't be overawed by what the experts say. Don't be afraid to trust your own common sense.

  

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  • Trust

• I really learned it all from mothers.

  

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• People have said, 'You've turned your back on pediatrics.' I said, 'No. It took me until I was in my 60s to realize that politics was a part of pediatrics.'

  

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  • People

• This solution has great superficial appeal-all the excitement of secret, forbidden, romantic sexuality without family responsibility and family grubbiness.

  

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  • Great
  • Family
  • Responsibility

• As parents and teachers we need to bring up more of our children with generosity of spirit.

  

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  • Up
  • Children
  • Parents

• I've come to the realization that a lot of our problems are because of a dearth of spiritual values.

  

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  • Spiritual

• I would say that the surest measure of a man's or a woman's maturity is the harmony, style, joy, and dignity he creates in his marriage, and the pleasure and inspiration he provides for his spouse.

  

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  • Joy
  • Style
  • Marriage

• Man can be the most affectionate and altruistic of creatures, yet he's potentially more vicious than any other. He is the only one who can be persuaded to hate millions of his own kind whom he has never seen and to kill as many as he can lay his hands on in the name of his tribe or his God.

  

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  • God
  • Hate

• Most middle-class whites have no idea what it feels like to be subjected to police who are routinely suspicious, rude, belligerent, and brutal.

  

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  • Police
  • Rude

• The fact is that child rearing is a long, hard job, the rewards are not always immediately obvious, the work is undervalued, and parents are just as human and almost as vulnerable as their children.

  

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  • Work
  • Long
  • Children

• In automobile terms, the child supplies the power but the parents have to do the steering.

  

  Benjamin Spock
  • Power
  • Parents