"I might be better able to help parents of dying children, but for quite a while I felt less able, too emotionally involved. And from that time on, I could rarely discuss the death of a child without tears welling up into my eyes."

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Source : "Koop: The Memoirs of America's Family Doctor" Book by C. Everett Koop, (p. 126), 1993.

C. Everett Koop

#Children Quotes #Eye Quotes #Parent Quotes

“You 're so beautiful.”

Source : Tammara Webber (2011). “Where You Are”, p.90, Tammara Webber
“The things I've done in my life have required a lot of years of work before they took off.”
“On motionless wing they emerge from the lifting mists, sweep a final arc of sky, and settle in clangorous descending spirals to their feeding grounds. A new day has begun on the crane marsh.”
“As my father-in-law once said, when they talk about taxes it's always for teachers, firemen, and police - but when they spend your taxes, it always seems to go to some guy in a leather chair downtown you never heard of.”
“When you read a book, you generate beta waves irrespective of the book's content. But if you look up from it, and start watching TV - it doesn't matter what the content of the program is - the beta waves disappear and you start processing alpha and theta waves. These are the same waves that you generate during meditation. Reading is primarily left hemisphere and watching television is primarily right hemisphere. Now how could that not have a major effect on our culture?”
“Winning has a joy and discrete purity to it that cannot be replaced by anything else.”
“I have a really good relationship with a lot of designers. I like Gaultier, Billionaire and Cavalli.”
“I think that if most guys in America could somehow get their fave-rave poster girl in bed and have total license to do whatever they wanted with this legendary body for one afternoon, at least 75 percent of the guys in the country would elect to beat her up.”

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