Benjamin Spock Quotes

If parents are the fixed stars in the child's universe, the vaguely understood, distant but constant celestial spheres, siblings are the dazzling, sometimes scorching comets whizzing nearby.

My parents were married for sixty-five years, and I was married for about ten minutes, my first year at Yale Drama School. Something, somehow, didn't get passed on to my generation.

I've always been way closer to my mom. I'm close to my dad, but they're totally different kinds of relationships.

I remember being, like, the age of 7 and just always being in control of something or someone, a baby somewhere. I had lots of cousins and brothers, and we were all taught that's how you are, you know. Things don't just run themselves; you have to make them run.

Men are what their mothers made them.

I played with dolls until I was 15. My mother encouraged it because my older sister got married when she was 15, so Mom thought that the longer I stayed with dolls, the better.

Children - if you think back really what it was like to be a child and what it was like to know other children - children lie all the time.

My mom told me I never had enough Tonka toys when I was growing up.

The most formative time of our lives are the years between birth and age 21, when we explore who we are and learn from those who surround us.

I love being around kids; they're honest and refreshing, and I love teaching them new things.

Ultimately, the only people who are in any way edified by hanging with famous people are you at the age of 11 and your mom.

Not to expose your true feelings to an adult seems to be instinctive from the age of seven or eight onwards.

Our parents have, by far, the greatest influence on shaping who we are and how we deal with the world.

At the age of about eight years, if he is a boy, she turns him over to his father for more Spartan training.

But however the forms of family life have changed and the number expanded, the role of the family has remained constant and it continues to be the major institution through which children pass en route to adulthood.

My mother was 45 when she had me, so when I was in high school my parents were the same age as my friends' grandparents.

I have often thought what a melancholy world this would be without children, and what an inhuman world without the aged.

I'm a proper mummy's boy.

You know when you have a child and then as you get older, your parents start becoming more like your friends and then telling you things they wouldn't have told you when you were 14 or 15, answering questions about the past or whatever.

As a kid, you're so at the mercy of the people around you, the people raising you, your environment.

As a child, you are influenced by your parents' actions.

My parents are both into music. My mom sings and my dad plays piano, so there was always music everywhere. I was singing at a very young age, but I actually got my buzz through rapping.

I think that, any young child or teenager, you take a lot from your parents when you're growing up.

The young need old men. They need men who are not ashamed of age, not pathetic imitations of themselves. ... Parents are the bones on which children sharpen their teeth.

I wrote this story for you, but when I began it I had not realized that girls grow quicker than books. As a result you are already too old for fairy tales, and by the time it is printed and bound you will be older still. But some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again. You can then take it down from some upper shelf, dust it, and tell me what you think of it. I shall probably be too deaf to hear, and too old to understand a word you say, but I shall still be your affectionate Godfather, C. S. Lewis.