I’ve come to the realization that a lot of our problems are because of a dearth of spiritual values.
BENJAMIN SPOCKOur greatest hope is to bring up children inspired by their opportunities for being helpful and loving.
More Benjamin Spock Quotes
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When women are encouraged to be competitive, too many of them become disagreeable.
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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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Our greatest hope is to bring up children inspired by their opportunities for being helpful and loving.
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To win in Vietnam, we will have to exterminate a nation.
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Grandparents have the freedom to see their grandchildren uncritically.
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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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All the time a person is a child he is both a child and learning to be a parent. After he becomes a parent he becomes predominantly a parent reliving childhood.
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The child supplies the power but the parents have to do the steering.
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A human being is happiest and most successful when dedicated to a cause outside his own individual, selfish satisfaction.
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I agree today that a man has no business trying to tell women what their characteristics are, which ones are inborn, which are more admirable, which will be best utilized by what occupations.
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If I could make only one wish for a child, I’d wish him the quality of lovingness.
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Without freedom of choice, there is no creativity. Without creativity, there is no life.
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There are only two things a child will share willingly; communicable diseases and its mother’s age.
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Biologically and temperamentally… women were made to be concerned firt and foremost with child care, husband care and home care.
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I really learned it all from mothers.
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