Margaret Mead Quotes

One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are when you don't come home at night.

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• All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Time
  • Given
  • Decide

• I'd like to think a baseball picture is somewhere in my future.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Future
  • Picture
  • Baseball

• What I don't miss is living in a small town where everybody knows you, your family, and what you ate for breakfast.

  

  Nancy Carell
  • Family
  • Small
  • Breakfast

• One thing you can't intend is how you will be read. I hear it said a lot that my books are about the 'search for identity', and this is said admiringly, as if I meant to encourage such a search.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • You
  • Identity
  • Search

• I've always wanted to play Maria in West Side Story. My idol is Natalie Wood, and I love the movie, so I think a modern-day twist on it would be really neat.

  

  Vanessa Hudgens
  • Movie
  • Think
  • Play

• Unless man is committed to the belief that all mankind are his brothers, then he labors in vain and hypocritically in the vineyards of equality.

  

  Adam Clayton U2
  • Man
  • Belief
  • Equality

• I was in the doldrums for a while after my athletics career ended in 1992. I spent six to eight hours a day training, for 18 years, and it took a long time to get over the regret that I wasn't competing in major championships any more. All I ever wanted to be was the best. But I find new projects and I keep things in perspective.

  

  Daley Thompson
  • Time
  • Long
  • Career

• I prefer to connect with fans from the stage. Like, I don't have a Twitter page, or anything like that. So for me, that's what the show is about. For me - is a way to interact with fans; being up onstage and showing them, through music - which is all I really know - the best way to say thank you.

  

  Nate Ruess Fun.
  • Up
  • Music
  • Best

• The bonds we create in the household are the most important and lasting. Savor them; they're sacred.

  

  Rainn Wilson
  • Important
  • Create
  • Sacred

• If priests were allowed to marry, if this would be an optional thing, and if he could have wife and children, he would certainly have less temptation to satisfy certain sexual impulses with minors.

  

  Hans Kung
  • Children
  • Wife
  • Temptation

• I want to play for my country, play for everybody, and I want to be there. I just feel like I have so many feelings and I want to play in the Olympics and feel how special if I can win that tournament.

  

  Yani Tseng
  • Country
  • Play
  • Feelings

• I had 500 kids at camp this past summer for example. We do nine weeks for kids and nine days for grown ups every summer. The adult camp is a lot of fun.

  

  Wavy Gravy
  • Kids
  • Fun
  • Past

• I have a very musical family from my Scottish roots.

  

  Carice van Houten
  • Family
  • Very
  • Roots

• I don't think I've ever been chatted up, and I don't think I've ever chatted anyone up. The Fresh Prince has the best chat-up lines.

  

  Laura Mvula
  • Up
  • Think
  • Best

• Being on TV is similar to being an athlete. You get no second chances.

  

  Lara Spencer
  • You
  • Athlete
  • Chances

• Nashville is my home, and the reason why I get to do what I love.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Home
  • Reason
  • Get

• How do we get more politicians to move from 'fixing' the system to reforming the system? The obvious answer is to either improve the quality of public services or reduce the public's dependence on them. Both approaches are necessary.

  

  Raghuram Rajan
  • Quality
  • Answer
  • Improve

• I think human societies tend to be problematic.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Think
  • Human
  • I Think

• I can get a black eye, a bloody nose. I can have a bad day in the gym. At the end of the day, I don't have a bad payday, and I don't have a bad night under the lights... I get bumps, bruises... but I don't have a bad night.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Bad
  • Night
  • Black

• Drink in the beauty and wonder at the meaning of what you see.

  

  Rachel Carson
  • Wonder

• The first 20 stories written about a public figure set the tone for the next 2,000 and it is almost impossible to reverse it.

  

  Charles Colson

• You hear these yummy mummies talk about being the best possible mother, and they put all their effort into their children. I also want to be the best possible mother, but I know that my job as a mother includes bringing my children up so, actually, they can live without me.

  

  Cherie Blair
  • Up
  • Live
  • Children

• Claims of a decisive 'turning point' in any election are often overblown - more often, such a moment merely crystallizes a change that's been days or weeks in the making. But you can make a real case that Obama's Jefferson-Jackson Day speech is a pivot point in America history.

  

  John Dickerson
  • Real
  • America
  • History

• One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are when you don't come home at night.

  

  Margaret Mead
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