Aging Quote by Margaret Mead Download Open image “In this country, some people start being miserable about growing old while they are still young.” — Margaret Mead ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.8 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Aging Country Growing Growing old Miserable People Stills Young
Growing old is, of all things we experience, that which takes the most courage, and at a time when we have the least resources,… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
Most people don't grow up. Most people age. They find parking spaces, honor their credit cards, get married, have children, and call that maturity.… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
There's no point in being unhappy about growing older. Just think of the millions who have been denied the privilege. — Cary Grant Copy Share Image
Why do some people stop growing at age 30, just going from work to the couch and television, when others stay vibrant, curious, almost… — Jacqueline Novogratz Copy Share Image
Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy person has no time to form. — Andre Maurois Copy Share Image
Everybody complains about getting older, but I find it such a rich time of life. There are negative things about it, I suppose, but… — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
Like childhood, old age is irresponsible, reckless, and foolhardy. Children and old people have everything to gain and nothing much to lose. It's middle-age… — John Mortimer Copy Share Image
The tragedy of growing old is not that one is old but that one is young. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
the country of the aged is a land few people think very hard and seriously about before the time of life when they sense… — Maggie Scarf Copy Share Image
The prophet who fails to present a bearable alternative and yet preaches doom is part of the trap that he postulates. Not only does… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
The contempt for law and the contempt for the human consequences of lawbreaking go from the bottom to the top of American society. — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
If one cannot state a matter clearly enough so that even an intelligent twelve-year-old can understand it, one should remain within the cloistered walls… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
Women are scolded both for being mothers and for not being mothers, for wanting to eat their cake and have it too, and for… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
we came to realize that a civilization which rode roughshod over the way of life of other peoples was incorporating evil in its own… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
Through a grandmother's voice and hands the end of life is known at the beginning. — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
today's children are the first generation to grow up in a world that has the power to destroy itself. — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
We are now at a point where we must educate our children in what no one knew yesterday, and prepare our schools for what… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
Humanity . . . lies in man's capacity to question the known and imagine the unknown. — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
In the past 40 years, the United States lost more than a million farmers and ranchers. Many of our farmers are aging. Today, only… — Tom Vilsack Copy Share Image
“Prayer of an Anonymous Abbess: Lord, thou knowest better than myself that I am growing older and will soon be old. Keep me from… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The more I produce, the less I am certain. On the road along which the artist walks, night falls ever more densely. Finally, he… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
So often do you see collegians enter life with high resolve and lofty purpose and then watch them shrink and shrink to sordid, selfish,… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
Aging is like enlightenment at gunpoint. Before I had cancer, I lived my life for my art. After I had cancer, I lived my… — Anna Halprin Copy Share Image
All the dangers in our world are like a blessed wake up call. They tell us to live life NOW... not tomorrow, not when… — Susan Jeffers Copy Share Image
“You could see the signs of female aging as diseased, especially if you had a vested interest in making women too see them your… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
Seek ye counsel of the aged for their eyes have looked on the faces of the years and their ears have hardened to the… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image