" When a person is born we rejoice,……" — Margaret Mead
" When a person is born we rejoice, and when they're married we jubilate, but when they die we try to pretend nothing has happened."
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162 Quotes by Margaret Mead
Margaret Mead has 162 quotes on this site.
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American society is very like a fish society. . . . Among certain species of fish, the only thing which…
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Everyone needs to have access both to grandparents and grandchildren in order to be a full human being.
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We end up with the contradictory picture of a society that appears to throw its doors wide open to women,…
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People in America, of course, live in all sorts of fashions, because they are foreigners, or unlucky, or depraved, or…
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The closest friends I made all through life have been people who also grew up close to a loved and…
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We are living beyond our means. As a people we have developed a life-style that is draining the earth of…
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In this country, some people start being miserable about growing old while they are still young.
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EARTH DAY uses one of humanity's great discoveries, the discovery of anniversaries by which, throughout time, human beings have kept…
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To the extent a person makes, invents or thinks something that is new to him, he may be said to…
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It was not until we saw the picture of the earth, from the moon, that we realized how small and…
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The negative cautions of science are never popular.
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You just have to learn not to care about the dusty mites under the beds.
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As a boy, because I was born and raised in Ohio, about 60 miles north of Dayton, the legends of…
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I'm luckier than my grandfather, who didn't move more than five miles from the village in which he was born.
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We still think of a powerful man as a born leader and a powerful woman as an anomaly.
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I was born in the Ottawa General Hospital right after the Gray Cup Football Game in 1939. Six months later,…
— Margaret Atwood
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Art is born of humiliation.
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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What springs from earth dissolves to earth again, and heaven-born things fly to their native seat.
— Marcus Aurelius
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You must be a lotus, unfolding its petals when the sun rises in the sky, unaffected by the slush where…
— Sai Baba
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The simplest questions are the most profound. Where were you born? Where is your home? Where are you going? What…
— Richard Bach
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A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language.
— Gaston Bachelard
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The possibility of my presidential candidacy emerged spontaneously in public opinion polls. For my part, I noticed people's affection when…
— Michelle Bachelet
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I was born into a Christian family and brought up in a Lutheran church. My faith has been the center…
— Michele Bachmann
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It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as…
— Francis Bacon
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