Margaret Mead Quotes

What people say, what people do, and what they say they do are entirely different things.

Margaret Mead

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: scientist
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: December 16, 1901 - November 15, 1978

Topics

PeopleSayThey SayPeople Say

A lot of why I climb is for the friendship, the loyalty and trust, the shared experience of being in that moment.

Jimmy Chin

FriendshipLoyaltyMomentTrustWhy

How you define yourself is a major issue for young people and adults alike.

Jim McKay

YourselfPeopleYouYoungDefine

I'm a huge fan of Peter Jackson's 'Lord of the Rings' movies - I went to all three of them on the day they opened and have seen all of them several times since.

John Lanchester

DayThreeMoviesLordRingsSeen

We were second-generation immigrants, and it was luxury enough to go to college. The luxury of the arts was still a generation away.

Robert Picardo

CollegeGenerationEnoughLuxuryGo

If the government can make money, what on earth does it collect taxes for you and me for? Why don't it make what money it wants, take the taxes out, and give the balance to us?

Robert Green Ingersoll

MoneyBalanceGovernmentMeYouWhy

The Hogwarts houses are really gangs. They have their own colours, their own hideouts, and they are always riding for each other, like gangs.

Angie Thomas

RidingAlwaysOwnLikeGangsHouses

If you think the music business is the be-all and end-all of life, you're in big trouble.

Simon Rattle

LifeBusinessMusicThinkYouBig

No one person invented Mulberry. The knowledge that we had to have this floating harbor slowly grew.

Lord Mountbatten

KnowledgePersonFloatingSlowlyHad

Fiction allows us to both evade truth and to approach it - or, rather, it's fiction that allows us to 'construct' our world. It's haunted by the unimaginable and the unspeakable.

Joshua Oppenheimer

TruthWorldFictionUsApproachOur

We've seen a lot of dirty politics in Ireland.

Ciaran Hinds

PoliticsDirtySeenIrelandLot

The most important things in life aren't things.

Anthony J. D'Angelo

LifeImportantThingsMost

In the normal course of things, journalists want their story, and as soon as they are through with it, they pack their cameras and go. That was never the impression that David Astor gave when you were interviewed by him. It was far deeper than that.

Winnie Madikizela-Mandela

StoryYouGoWantNeverHim

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