Margaret Mead Quotes

Nobody has ever before asked the nuclear family to live all by itself in a box the way we do. With no relatives, no support, we've put it in an impossible situation.

Margaret Mead

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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Sometimes people credit me for the Tea Party. It's actually the other way around.

Jim DeMint

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My fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.

John F. Kennedy

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I do find the sight of small children eating very moving. Watch the way their tiny fingers clamp the cutlery. The exaggeratedly precise way they move cups or glasses to their lips.

John Niven

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Movies, like old-school TV, are cheesy, corny. Movies are not exciting anymore. They're not cutting edge.

John Leguizamo

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I prefer my body after I've had kids to before. I like a womanly, shapely figure. I'm more secure as a woman. I know who I am.

Stephanie Seymour

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I thought I would be a guy on the radio.

Steven Wright

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The end was surely near. The Nazis killed you only when you were naked, because they knew, psychologically, that naked people never resist.

Simon Wiesenthal

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If somebody comes to a neighborhood coffee hour, or goes to a discussion group, and they have a discussion, I do think that people really walk away with a real understanding of the issues.

Mike Lowry

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If we say that anyone who 'moralizes' must be perfect morally then we are in effect saying no one can moralize.

Jonah Goldberg

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I felt like calling attention to AIDS. I had the AIDS ribbon colored into my hair during the playoffs in '95.

Dennis Rodman

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With comedies, often shorter is better. You don't want to outstay your welcome.

Christopher Miller

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We have to allow people in the states to make their own decisions, to get government agencies out of the way and let local people make decisions about what's best for them.

Pete Sessions

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