Pediatrician Quotes:

Every generation rediscovers and re-evaluates the meaning of infancy and childhood.

- Arnold Gesell

source: Arnold Gesell, Frances Lillian Ilg (1951). “Infant and Child in the Culture of Today: The Guidance of Development in Home and Nursery School (From the Former Clinic of Child Development, School of Medicine at Yale University)”

topic: Children, Childhood, Generations, Pediatrician, Rediscovery

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

- Benjamin Spock

source: Benjamin Spock, M.D. (2012). “Dr. Spock's Baby and Child Care, 9th Edition”, p.580, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

topic: Children, Dad, Parenting, Inspirational Parenting, Inspirational Parents

The child's personality is a product of slow gradual growth. His nervous system matures by stages and natural sequences. He sits before he stands; he babbles before he talks; he fabricates before he tells the truth; he draws a circle before he draws a square; he is selfish before he is altruistic; he is dependent on others before he achieves dependence on self. All of his abilities, including his morals, are subject to laws of growth. The task of child care is not to force him into a predetermined pattern but to guide his growth.

- Arnold Gesell

source: Arnold Gesell, Frances Lillian Ilg (1951). “Infant and Child in the Culture of Today: The Guidance of Development in Home and Nursery School (From the Former Clinic of Child Development, School of Medicine at Yale University)”

topic: Baby, Children, Selfish, Dependence, Child Care

It's bizarre that the produce manager is more important to my children's health than the pediatrician.

- Meryl Streep

topic: Funny Inspirational, Children, Food, Inspirational Health, Favorite Foods

What's been important in my understanding of myself and others is the fact that each one of us is so much more than any one thing. A sick child is much more than his or her sickness. A person with a disability is much, much more than a handicap. A pediatrician is more than a medical doctor. You're MUCH more than your job description or your age or your income or your output.

- Fred Rogers

topic: Jobs, Children, Doctors, Medical Doctor, Pediatrician

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

- Benjamin Spock

source: The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care ch. 1 (1946)

topic: Family, Trust, Encouraging, Trust Your Instincts, Inspirational Confidence

However, most of my part, I play a pediatrician, and most of my role had to do with being in another place, staying at the hospital and trying to save kids and stay until people could come. So, it was more based on reality.

- Sela Ward

topic: Kids, Reality, Play, Pediatrician

I want to be a child doctor. A pediatry... how do you call it, pediatrician? Do I like kids? No, not really.

- Adriana Lima

topic: Children, Kids, Doctors, Pediatrician

In Greek, our word for play is paidia and the word for education is paideia, and it is very natural and right that these words should be entangled at the root, together with our word for children, paides, which gave you your words pedagogy and pediatrician.

- Rebecca Goldstein

source: Rebecca Newberger Goldstein (2014). “Plato at the Googleplex: Why Philosophy Won't Go Away”, p.199, Atlantic Books Ltd

topic: Children, Play, Roots, Pediatrician, Pedagogy

I'm the son of a pediatrician, and I do believe that the most important resource we have is our kids. And I think the most important thing for America's future is to invest more in our children.

- Ezekiel Emanuel

topic: Children, Believe, Kids, Pediatrician

I love kids, so two things that I have thought about are being a pediatrician or a kindergarten teacher.

- Karlie Kloss

topic: Teacher, Kids, Two, Kindergarten Teacher, Kids Love

After doing One Fine Day and playing a pediatrician on ER, I'll never have kids. I'm going to have a vasectomy.

- George Clooney

topic: Kids, Vasectomy, Fine, Pediatrician, Fine Day

Physicians who care for adults generally don't think about vaccines as much as pediatricians do, and adults think of vaccines as a kid thing.

- Paul A. Offit

source: Source: www.nytimes.com

topic: Kids, Thinking, Vaccines, Pediatrician

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

- Benjamin Spock

topic: Funny, Mother, Children, Pediatrician, Funny Family

It seems that for success in science or art, a dash of autism is essential.

- Hans Asperger

topic: Art, Autism, Essentials, Pediatrician, Aspergers

For a pediatrician to attack what has become the "bread and butter" of pediatric practice is equivalent to a priest denying the infallibility of the pope.

- Robert S. Mendelsohn

topic: Practice, Bread, Belief, Pediatrician, Vaccinations

Parents don't make mistakes because they don't care, but because they care so deeply.

- T. Berry Brazelton

source: T. BERRY BRAZELTON, M.D. (1992). “TOUCHPOINTS THE ESSENTIAL REFERENCE”

topic: Mistake, Parent, Care, Parental, Caring Too Much

I do think, where would kids be if it weren't for you and for the good pediatricians, and for the good parents? I passionately believe in sitting a child on your lap and tracing the lines of the book with your finger, and they can read before they know they can, if you bother enough. I did it with my kids, and they're doing it with their kids now.

- Julie Andrews

topic: Children, Believe, Book, Good Parent, Pediatrician

When trouble comes no mother should have to plead guilty alone. The pediatricians, psychologists, therapists, goat herders, fathers, and peer groups should all be called to the bench as well. . . .

- Mary Blakely

source: Mary Kay Blakely (1995). “American Mom: Motherhood, Politics, and Humble Pie”, p.35, Simon and Schuster

topic: Mother, Father, Should Have, Pediatrician, Peer Group

After all, they (the pro-vaccine lobbyists) say to themselves, you can't make an omelette without breaking eggs. But the eggs being broken are small, helpless, and innocent babies, while the omelette is being enjoyed by the pediatricians and vaccine manufacturers.

- Harris L Coulter

topic: Baby, Eggs, Vaccines, Pediatrician, Being Broken

I loved raising my kids. I loved the process, the dirt of it, the tears of it, the frustration of it, Christmas, Easter, birthdays, growth charts, pediatrician appointments. I loved all of it.

- Jane Elliott

source: "Jane Elliot Dishes Her Role as General Hospital's Queen of Mean". Interview with Michael Logan, www.tvguide.com. May 15, 2012.

topic: Christmas, Easter, Kids, Pediatrician

Why are entire flocks of industrial birds dying at once? And what about the people eating those birds? Just the other day, one of the local pediatricians was telling me he's seeing all kinds of illnesses that he never used to see. Not only juvenile diabetes, but inflammatory and autoimmune diseases that a lot of the docs don't even know what to call. And girls are going through puberty much earlier; and kids are allergic to just about everything, and asthma is out of control. Everyone knows it's our foods... Kids today are the first generation to grow up on this stuff...

- Jonathan Safran Foer

topic: Girl, Growing Up, Kids, Juvenile Diabetes, Pediatrician

If your child is born with a port-wine stain, they should be seen immediately by a pediatric dermatologist. Your pediatrician does not understand these birthmarks as well as a specialist.

- Hannah Storm

topic: Children, Wine, Doe, Pediatrician, Birthmarks

Every parent who has ever said a few words over a goldfish in a toilet bowl or felt the numbness of an unexpected diagnosis in a pediatrician's office will appreciate the heartfelt wisdom in It's Okay to Cry. Norm Wright tenderly and skillfully equips parents to help children cultivate a healthy response to life's many pains and sorrows.

- Lori Borgman

topic: Children, Pain, Heart, Pediatrician

You leak sometimes. My pediatrician said, 'Can't you just wear pads under your clothes?' I said, 'You don't know the kind of clothes I wear on photo shoots.'

- Cindy Crawford

topic: Mom, Clothes, Pads, Pediatrician

The pediatrician must have thought me one of those neurotic mothers who craved distinction for her child but who in our civilization's latter-day degeneracy could only conceive of the exceptional in terms of deficiency or affliction.

- Lionel Shriver

topic: Mother, Children, Civilization, Latter Days, Pediatrician