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Benjamin Spock Quotes

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.

Benjamin Spock

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: scientist
Nationality: american
Birth: May 2, 1903 - March 15, 1998

Topics

Learning Time Childhood Child Parent

If what you want to do is make good art, decide what's good and try to imitate it.

Robert Pinsky

Good Art You Want Try Decide

I don't have much interest in being on a senior tour. I don't think I retired so that I could be on tour.

Andy Roddick

Think Senior Interest Being Tour

Barack Obama became president, and he abandoned Iraq. He left, and when he left Al Qaida was done for. ISIS was created because of the void that we left, and that void now exists as a caliphate the size of Indiana.

Jeb Bush

Done Now President Size Abandoned

I think because I'm not a parent, my most immediate connection to childhood is my memory of my own childhood.

Spike Jonze

Childhood Memory Think Parent My Own

I respect anyone who could take a stagecoach ride from the East Coast to the West. You had to be a very special kind of person to survive that because it's the most uncomfortable ride in the world.

Sinbad

Respect Ride World Survive You Kind

I can drink 15 pieces of fruit in a day. Nobody is going to sit down and eat that. I drink about 48 ounces a day. That constitutes about 50 percent of what I eat. And then I have one meal a day, some protein. I restrict calories.

Montel Williams

Day Fruit Down I Can Nobody Drink

I'm not a cinephile. My films don't reference films. I'm more interested in rhythm and feeling.

Miranda July

Feeling More Rhythm Interested Films

When you're reaching out to people beyond the scientific community, image does matter.

Lisa Randall

Community People You Matter Image

I grew up with an Italian family in an era when a woman's path was laid out for her: You got married and had children. Simple, right? Then I got to a point around the age of 30 when I had three little children and was a single mom, and I realized life was not so simple.

Joy Mangano

Life Family Age Children Path Woman

Hip-hop from the beginning has always been aspirational. It always broke that notion that an artist can't think about money as well. Just so long as you separate the two and you're not making music with business in mind. At some point, it has to be real when they touch it, when they listen to it. Something has to resonate with them that's real.

Jay-Z

Business Music Money Beginning Mind

It doesn't make much sense to blitz a guy that gets rid of the ball in less than 1.5 seconds.

Jon Gruden

Ball Guy Sense Than Much Seconds

Too often, the idea seemed to be that the cost of being part of Europe was being less like Britain. So after years of fighting to defend Europe against attacks from the Eurosceptic right, it would be fatal to retreat into the same arguments and begin the battle anew.

Douglas Alexander

Battle Fighting Right Defend Begin