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Top 30 C. Everett Koop Quotes (2025 Update)

C. Everett Koop Quote: “Health care is vital to all of us some of the time, but public health is vital to all of us all of the time.”

1. “Health care is vital to all of us some of the time, but public health is vital to all of us all of the time.”

— C. Everett Koop

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C. Everett Koop Quote: “Drugs don’t work in patients who don’t take them.”

2. “Drugs don’t work in patients who don’t take them.”

— C. Everett Koop

C. Everett Koop Quote: “Life affords no greater responsibility, no greater privilege, than the raising of the next generation.”

3. “Life affords no greater responsibility, no greater privilege, than the raising of the next generation.”

— C. Everett Koop

C. Everett Koop Quote: “The best prescription is knowledge.”

4. “The best prescription is knowledge.”

— C. Everett Koop

C. Everett Koop Quote: “Your choice of diet can influence your long term health prospects more than any other action you might take.”

5. “Your choice of diet can influence your long term health prospects more than any other action you might take.”

— C. Everett Koop

C. Everett Koop Quote: “Cigarette smoking is clearly identified as the chief, preventable cause of death in our society.”

6. “Cigarette smoking is clearly identified as the chief, preventable cause of death in our society.”

— C. Everett Koop

C. Everett Koop Quote: “When a child shows up for school, and is not physically and mentally ready to learn, he or she never catches up.”

7. “When a child shows up for school, and is not physically and mentally ready to learn, he or she never catches up.”

— C. Everett Koop

C. Everett Koop Quote: “You can’t talk of the dangers of snake poisoning and not mention snakes.”

8. “You can’t talk of the dangers of snake poisoning and not mention snakes.”

— C. Everett Koop

C. Everett Koop Quote: “The right of smokers to smoke ends where their behavior affects the health and well-being of others.”

9. “The right of smokers to smoke ends where their behavior affects the health and well-being of others.”

— C. Everett Koop

C. Everett Koop Quote: “All of the western world raises its children uncircumcised and it seems logical that, with the extent of health knowledge in those countries, such a practice must be safe.”

10. “All of the western world raises its children uncircumcised and it seems logical that, with the extent of health knowledge in those countries, such a practice must be safe.”

— C. Everett Koop

C. Everett Koop Quote: “There are all kinds of things you can do to marry literacy with health.”

11. “There are all kinds of things you can do to marry literacy with health.”

— C. Everett Koop

C. Everett Koop Quote: “Risks I think are the thing that make life important and everything that you and I do is risk vs. benefit. Is there a risk to sending your kid out? Absolutely. Is there a benefit? It exceeds the risk.”

12. “Risks I think are the thing that make life important and everything that you and I do is risk vs. benefit. Is there a risk to sending your kid out? Absolutely. Is there a benefit? It exceeds the risk.”

— C. Everett Koop

C. Everett Koop Quote: “By the year 2025, 500 million people will die of smoking. Now, that’s a Vietnam War every day for 27 years. That’s the Titanic sinking every 27 minutes for 27 years.”

13. “By the year 2025, 500 million people will die of smoking. Now, that’s a Vietnam War every day for 27 years. That’s the Titanic sinking every 27 minutes for 27 years.”

— C. Everett Koop

C. Everett Koop Quote: “There are many stressed single parents who may be working two jobs in order to keep the family together.”

14. “There are many stressed single parents who may be working two jobs in order to keep the family together.”

— C. Everett Koop

C. Everett Koop Quote: “I can’t remember a time when I didn’t want to be a doctor. The doctors I knew as a very young child must have helped to plant the desire in me, when I was as young as five or six. One homeopathic physician, Dr. Justice Gage Wright, was a great model.”

15. “I can’t remember a time when I didn’t want to be a doctor. The doctors I knew as a very young child must have helped to plant the desire in me, when I was as young as five or six. One homeopathic physician, Dr. Justice Gage Wright, was a great model.”

— C. Everett Koop

C. Everett Koop Quote: “The baby’s life is never willfully destroyed because the mother’s life is in danger.”

16. “The baby’s life is never willfully destroyed because the mother’s life is in danger.”

— C. Everett Koop

C. Everett Koop Quote: “I’d like to say let your kids go out and play. Then I’d say you’re not going to do that are you? Make your kids go out and play.”

17. “I’d like to say let your kids go out and play. Then I’d say you’re not going to do that are you? Make your kids go out and play.”

— C. Everett Koop

C. Everett Koop Quote: “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.”

18. “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.”

— C. Everett Koop

C. Everett Koop Quote: “At a time when we are pleading with foreign governments to stop the export of cocaine, it is the height of hypocrisy for the United States to export tobacco.”

19. “At a time when we are pleading with foreign governments to stop the export of cocaine, it is the height of hypocrisy for the United States to export tobacco.”

— C. Everett Koop

C. Everett Koop Quote: “The health care industry can play a great role in this by being aware of the fact that these children form perhaps the most neglected group of people in the country, largely because it is hard to find them.”

20. “The health care industry can play a great role in this by being aware of the fact that these children form perhaps the most neglected group of people in the country, largely because it is hard to find them.”

— C. Everett Koop

C. Everett Koop Quote: “A thousand people will stop smoking today. Their funerals will be held sometime in the next three or four days.”

21. “A thousand people will stop smoking today. Their funerals will be held sometime in the next three or four days.”

— C. Everett Koop

C. Everett Koop Quote: “If you want to say how can we step into childhood and make it better for them, I would start at the activity level. I’d like to say let your kids go out and play.”

22. “If you want to say how can we step into childhood and make it better for them, I would start at the activity level. I’d like to say let your kids go out and play.”

— C. Everett Koop

C. Everett Koop Quote: “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.”

23. “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.”

— C. Everett Koop

C. Everett Koop Quote: “The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching has been in existence for most of this century.”

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

— C. Everett Koop

C. Everett Koop Quote: “Make your kids go out and play. Kids ought to grow up the way you and I grew up and we grew up fifty years apart or maybe more. But we did the same things. Now who’s out playing in the afternoon? Nobody.”

25. “Make your kids go out and play. Kids ought to grow up the way you and I grew up and we grew up fifty years apart or maybe more. But we did the same things. Now who’s out playing in the afternoon? Nobody.”

— C. Everett Koop

C. Everett Koop Quote: “The thing that reinforces my belief about that is having worked the last four years with the Safe Kids Campaign on a national basis. I am so amazed at what these little kids do in keeping their parents alerted to what they are there for.”

26. “The thing that reinforces my belief about that is having worked the last four years with the Safe Kids Campaign on a national basis. I am so amazed at what these little kids do in keeping their parents alerted to what they are there for.”

— C. Everett Koop

C. Everett Koop Quote: “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.”

27. “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.”

— C. Everett Koop

C. Everett Koop Quote: “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.”

28. “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.”

— C. Everett Koop

C. Everett Koop Quote: “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.”

29. “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.”

— C. Everett Koop

C. Everett Koop Quote: “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.”

30. “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.”

— C. Everett Koop

C. Everett Koop Quote: “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.”

31. “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.”

— C. Everett Koop

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