52 Quotes by C. Everett Koop

I can’t remember a time when I didn’t want to be a doctor. The doctors I knew as a very young child must have helped to plant the desire in me, when I was as young as five or six. One homeopathic physician, Dr. Justice Gage Wright, was a great model.

The baby’s life is never willfully destroyed because the mother’s life is in danger.

I’d like to say let your kids go out and play. Then I’d say you’re not going to do that are you? Make your kids go out and play.

Make your kids go out and play. Kids ought to grow up the way you and I grew up and we grew up fifty years apart or maybe more. But we did the same things. Now who’s out playing in the afternoon? Nobody.

If you want to say how can we step into childhood and make it better for them, I would start at the activity level. I’d like to say let your kids go out and play.

If you have a kid who goes to kindergarten and doesn’t know what a circle is, doesn’t know what red and green are, and doesn’t know what right and left are, by the time he learns those things, the rest of the class is far ahead of him.

My experience with the Junior League, when I worked in Philadelphia for four years in reference to children’s things, is that whenever they were asked they responded. They always responded with sincerity, and they did a good job.