"Babies control and bring up their families as……" — Erik Erikson
"Babies control and bring up their families as much as they are controlled by them; in fact ... the family brings up baby by being brought up by him."
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25 Quotes by Erik Erikson
Erik Erikson has 25 quotes on this site.
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Farms and in castles, in homes, studies, and cloisters - where sensible people manage to live relatively lusty and decent…
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The American feels too rich in his opportunities for free expression that he often no longer knows what he is…
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Adolescents need freedom to choose, but not so much freedom that they cannot, in fact, make a choice.
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Personality, too, is destiny.
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Children love and want to be loved and they very much prefer the joy of accomplishment to the triumph of…
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Life doesn't make any sense without interdependence. We need each other, and the sooner we learn that, the better for…
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You see a child play, and it is so close to seeing an artist paint, for in play a child…
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Healthy children will not fear life if their elders have integrity enough not to fear death.
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Hope is both the earliest and the most indispensable virtue inherent in the state of being alive. If life is…
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The playing adult steps sideward into another reality; the playing child advances forward to new stages of mastery.
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We cannot leave history entirely to nonclinical observers and to professional historians.
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I am what survives of me.
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Apart from anything else, I am designed by evolution, like we all are: if we see a little thing like…
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If you were to open up a baby's head - and I am not for a moment suggesting that you…
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I do believe babies are born potty-trained. They're born knowing and are able to give subtle signals that become very…
— Mayim Bialik
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There should be a worldwide law, in my opinion, that mothers should breastfeed their babies for six months.
— Gisele Bundchen
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Father asked us what was God's noblest work. Anna said men, but I said babies. Men are often bad, but…
— Louisa May Alcott
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My mother goes crazy over babies. Some people just do. They love 'em! I never have. Babies scare me more…
— Margaret Cho
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It is the nature of babies to be in bliss.
— Deepak Chopra
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The tabloids, instead of being about alien babies and stuff, it's my triplets, quadruplets, marriages, feuds.
— Jennifer Aniston
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Once you leave the womb, conservatives don't care about you until you reach military age. Then you're just what they're…
— George Carlin
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The moment a child is born, the mother is also born. She never existed before. The woman existed, but the…
— Rajneesh
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"I call them april babies cause they fools"
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I always wondered why babies spend so much time sucking their thumbs. Then I tasted baby food.
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