C. Everett Koop Quotes

They were saying you would be a tremendous addition to the military, and we can get you into West Point with a full scholarship. And I simply said, I want to be a doctor. I really appreciate it.

Both my parents are doctors, so from the time I was a child, I wanted to do medicine.

I happen to be lucky in that I knew what I wanted to do as far as a career since I was nine years old.

He didn't want me to become a musician, he wanted me to be a doctor, because he said singing was too hard.

My mother's father was a doctor, and she desperately wanted to be a doctor.

I wanted to be a doctor when I was little, so I'm okay with blood and guts.

I always wanted to be a medical doctor, and I never thought of business.

I wanted to be a doctor since I was five.

I thought I was going to retire at 20, and I was going to be a surgeon.

My mother wanted me to be a doctor.

My mum wanted me to be a doctor like my dad, and at 7, I really wanted to be a politician, and I managed in my mind to combine the two.

My family's very medical, so as a field, that, I think, it's so important and wonderful, something I'm definitely interested in. Just not for a living!

I wanted to be a doctor once upon a time, but it turns out you've got to study, and that wasn't going to happen. I had no idea what I was going to do. I had trouble holding jobs because they want you to be on time. That wasn't going to work.

I'm happier writing about doctors than I would have been being one.

I wanted to be a surgeon, possibly influenced by the qualities of our family doctor who cared for our childhood ailments.

I decided I wanted to be a physician when I was seven years old.

I knew exactly what I wanted to be when I grew up. I was like, 'I'm going to be a doctor!' Doctor Luvvie was the dream. I was Doc McStuffins before it was a thing.

I always wanted to be a teacher or wanted to do something with food. But modeling, I just never thought I could do it myself, really, ever. I still have trouble calling myself a model. I just never thought I was tall enough or skinny enough.

As a little boy, I wanted to be a policeman. And then as I got older, and I saw my dad in the car business, an automobile executive.

You know how most kids have posters of sports heroes on their walls? They gave me reams of the old news copy, and I had those taped in my bedroom. And I would practice reading the news.

I think there's this assumption that everybody would rather be a director, and I don't know that that's the case for me, so we'll see.

I was with my mum in the shops, a ladies boutique or something, and I was asked what I wanted to be when I grow up. I think you're supposed to say an ambulance man or a footballer or a soldier or something like that, and I told all my mother's friends that I wanted to be Minister for Health. She was mortified, needless to say.

I never wanted to be an engineer.

My father wanted me to become a doctor.

My original plan was to be a surgeon.