What good mothers and fathers instinctively feel like doing for their babies is usually best after all.

When women are encouraged to be competitive, too many of them become disagreeable.

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.

What is the use of physicians like myself trying to help parents to bring up children healthy and happy, to have them killed in such numbers for a cause that is ignoble?

You know more than you think you do.

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.

Every child senses, with all the horse sense that's in him, that any parent is angry inside when children misbehave and they dread more the anger that is rarely or never expressed openly, wondering how awful it might be.

Trust yourself, you know more than you think you do.

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

In our country today, very few children are raised to believe that their principal destiny is to serve their family, their country, or God.

Perhaps a child who is fussed over gets a feeling of destiny; he thinks he is the world for something important, and it gives him drive and confidence.

I'm not a pacifist. I was very much for the war against Hitler and I also supported the intervention in Korea, but in this war we went in there to steal Vietnam.

I was proud of the youths who opposed the war in Vietnam because they were my babies.

Happiness is mostly a by-product of doing what makes us feel fulfilled.

The child supplies the power but the parents have to do the steering.

To win in Vietnam, we will have to exterminate a nation.

There are only two things a child will share willingly; communicable diseases and its mother's age.

The more people have studied different methods of bringing up children the more they have come to the conclusion that what good mothers and fathers instinctively feel like doing for their babies is the best after all.

What good mothers and fathers instinctively feel like doing for their babies is usually best after all.

A surprising number of scientific advances have been made and masterpieces of art created by individuals just on the threshold of adulthood.

As a peace activist, I am dismayed by the encouragement of aggressiveness and violence by television, movies, and war toys.

I think we should bring up our children with much less pressure to compete and get ahead: no comparing one child with another, at home or in school; no grades. Let athletics be primarily for fun, and let them be organized by children and youths themselves.

On the average, older parents are more flexible, tolerant, understanding, and happy in child care.

People have criticized me for seeming to step out of my professional role to become undignifiedly political. I'd say it was belated realization that day care, good schools, health insurance, and nuclear disarmament are even more important aspects of pediatrics than measles vaccine or vitamin D.

Perhaps a child who is fussed over gets a feeling of destiny; he thinks he is in the world for something important, and it gives him drive and confidence.

Preschool children are virtuosos of imagination.

We all end up at least somewhat like our parents, especially in the way we deal with our children.

The child supplies the power, but the parents have to do the steering.

A child loves his play, not because it's easy, but because it's hard.

Sex education, including its spiritual aspects, should be part of a broad health and moral education from kindergarten through grade twelve, ideally carried out harmoniously by parents and teachers.

I want to have babies one day but not right now. When I do it I want to do it really well. I want it to be my best project in life.

Babies don't need a vacation, but I still see them at the beach... it pisses me off! I'll go over to a little baby and say 'What are you doing here? You haven't worked a day in your life!'

There's people making babies to my music. That's nice.

If you look around Brazil you see pregnant women everywhere. Here you don't see that as much. There the only thing they do is babies, babies, babies! Especially the poor families.

Senorita was fun to sing, but I don't really have a favorite. When you write a bunch of songs, they're like your babies. You don't pick favorites.

It's been my dream to have four babies by 30. I look after animals, so I'd have a lot to give my kids.

Most countries are static, and they need to do is keep having babies. But America's like this big old clanking smoking machine that just lumbers across the landscape scooping up and eating everything in sight.

Amnesty is the magnet. Other magnets that you mentioned are anchor babies who get benefits in this country and employer deductions for employees, even if they are here illegally, which Mr. King is addressing.

My parents had been involved in the labor movement; if we'd grown up in the city, we would have been red-diaper babies.

I've given birth to five babies and I breastfed every single one of these babies. To think that government has to go out and buy my breast pump for my babies. You wanna talk about the nanny state? I think we just got the new definition of a nanny.

To see those babies with no food for three of four days, old people sitting in the hot sun, when you see these poor people, you cannot help but being compassionate or affected.

Since people are going to be living longer and getting older, they'll just have to learn how to be babies longer.

I've always been a true believer that if men had babies, nobody would be trying to tell them what they can and can't do with their bodies.

Milk is for babies. When you grow up you have to drink beer.

Babies don't need fathers, but mothers do. Someone who is taking care of a baby needs to be taken care of.

I'm always amazed when young women who are having babies want their husbands to watch the babies come out. I would never allow anything like that.

Licences to have babies incidentally is something that I got in trouble for some years ago for suggesting even in Canada that this might be necessary at some point, at least some restriction on the right to have a child.

Let's remember the children who come from broken homes, surrounded by crime, drugs, temptation, their peers having babies out of wedlock, but who still manage to get a good education despite the many obstacles they face every day.

It is well for us that we are born babies in intellect. Could we understand half what mothers say and do to their infants, we should be filled with a conceit of our own importance, which would render us insupportable through life.