top of page
Quote_1.png
C. Everett Koop

"The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching has been in existence for most of this century."

Standard 
 Customized
"The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching has been in existence for most of this century."

Exlpore more Existence quotes

Quote_1.png
Akiroq Brost

"Existence is a series of footnotes to a vast, obscure, unfinished masterpiece."

Quote_1.png
Akiroq Brost

"Philosophy, most broadly viewed, is the critical survey of existence from the standpoint of value."

Quote_1.png
Akiroq Brost

"When we are not sure we are alive."

Quote_1.png
Akiroq Brost

"The being that I shall be after death has no more reason to remember the man I have been since my birth than the latter to remember what I was before it."

Quote_1.png
Akiroq Brost

"It is impossible to survive in a prolonged state of reality."

Quote_1.png
Akiroq Brost

"Of my conception I know only what you know of yours. It occurred in darkness and I was unconsenting... By some bleak alchemy what had been mere unbeing becomes death when life is mingled with it."

Quote_1.png
Akiroq Brost

"Life is too short, or too long, for me to allow myself the luxury of living it so badly."

Quote_1.png
Akiroq Brost

"If your existence does not make any difference, you are no more than a dead body."

Quote_1.png
Akiroq Brost

"Because if God doesn't exist we are the creaturesof highest consciousness in the universe. We alone understand thepassage of time and the value off every minute of human life. Andwhat constitutes evil, real evil, is the taking of a single human life. Whether a man would have died tomorrow or the day after oreventually . . . it doesn't matter. Because if God does not exist, this life . . . every second of it . . . is all we have."

Quote_1.png
Akiroq Brost

"There's always been some moron-who usually went by the name of 'producer' - who would have to justify his existence, and interfere."

Explore more quotes by C. Everett Koop

Quote_1.png
C. Everett Koop
"There are all kinds of things you can do to marry literacy with health."
Quote_1.png
C. Everett Koop
"The target audience goes back to conception. That means pre-natal care, safe delivery, post-natal screening, and the ordinary stuff you do in pediatrics."
Quote_1.png
C. Everett Koop
"There are many stressed single parents who may be working two jobs in order to keep the family together."
Quote_1.png
C. Everett Koop
"Polls that have been taken by kindergarten, first- and second-grade teachers indicate that 30 percent of the kids have been deprived in some way so that they are physically unable to keep up with the class."
Quote_1.png
C. Everett Koop
"If you have a kid who goes to kindergarten and doesn't know what a circle is, doesn't know what red and green are, and doesn't know what right and left are, by the time he learns those things, the rest of the class is far ahead of him."
Quote_1.png
C. Everett Koop
"There have been some good studies done in California with Hispanic parents where in the course of a year, they have changed their entire nutritional intake for the better. The kid becomes, in a sense, the bridge between the educational process and the home."
Quote_1.png
C. Everett Koop
"One of the things we want to do is find ways, first, to impress these parents how important it is to have children in a situation where they can respond to them and, second, to bring intergenerational relationships into play."
Quote_1.png
C. Everett Koop
"My experience with the Junior League, when I worked in Philadelphia for four years in reference to children's things, is that whenever they were asked they responded. They always responded with sincerity, and they did a good job."
Quote_1.png
C. Everett Koop
"The Carnegie Foundation is well aware of the fact that their reports frequently find their way to dusty archives in academic institutions, but occasionally people pick up a segment of a report and act upon it."
Quote_1.png
C. Everett Koop
"You might expect that the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists would be there and they are."
bottom of page