"The past empowers the present, and the sweeping……" — Mary Catherine Bateson

"The past empowers the present, and the sweeping footsteps leading to this present mark the pathways to the future."

— Mary Catherine Bateson

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29 Quotes by Mary Catherine Bateson

Mary Catherine Bateson has 29 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

The timing of death, like the ending of a story, gives a changed meaning to what preceded it.
There are few things as toxic as a bad metaphor. You can't think without metaphors.
Of any stopping place in life, it is good to ask whether it will be a good place from which…
Insight, I believe, refers to the depth of understanding that comes by setting experiences, yours and mine, familiar and exotic,…
Fear is not a good teacher. The lessons of fear are quickly forgotten.
Caring can be learned by all human beings, can be worked into the design of every life, meeting an individual…
In many ways, constancy is an illusion.
In many ways, constancy is an illusion. After all, our ancestors were immigrants, many of them moving on every few…
As you get up in the morning, as you make decisions, as you spend money, make friends, make commitments, you…
Fluidity and discontinuity are central to the reality in which we live.
Worlds can be found by a child and an adult bending down and looking together under the grass stems or…
What would it be like to have not only color vision but culture vision, the ability to see the multiple…

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More Empowering Quotes

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The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela,… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
War is what happens when language fails. — Margaret Atwood
For me, a better democracy is a democracy where women do not only have the right to vote and to… — Michelle Bachelet
Gender equality will only be reached if we are able to empower women. — Michelle Bachelet
Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of husbands. Remember all men would be tyrants if they could. — Abigail Adams
I think the most important thing people can do to save our planet and the human race is to empower… — Robert Ballard
The number one benefit of information technology is that it empowers people to do what they want to do. It… — Steve Ballmer
It's the good girls who keep diaries; the bad girls never have the time. — Tallulah Bankhead
The thing women have yet to learn is nobody gives you power. You just take it. — Roseanne Barr
The message that I gave on the - on the steps today was that you need to stand for those… — Glenn Beck
I think that you have to do everything you can do to empower girls when they are young, from their… — Susie Bright
Only a knowledgeable, empowered and vocal citizenry can perform well in democracy. — David Brin

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