Quotes from Margaret Mead

If sports are the toy department of life, then the NFL is the FAO Schwartz of sports.

Blackberry winter, the time when the hoarforst lies on the blackberry blossoms; without this frost the berries will not set. It is the forerunner of a rich harvest.

For the very first time the young are seeing history being made before it is censored by their elders.

I was a child that both my parents wanted. I was told from the time I was born that I was totally satisfactory. I had a chance to be what I wanted to be.

Where we choose to put our attention changes our brain, which in time can change how we see and interact with the world.

One of the most dangerous things that can happen to a child is to kill or torture an animal an get away with it.

Never believe that a few caring people can't change the world. For, indeed, that's all who ever have.

A small group of thoughtful people could change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.

I've been married three times - and each time I married the right person.

All of us who grew up before World War II are immigrants in time, immigrants from an earlier world, living in an age essentially different from anything we knew before.

The solution to adult problems tomorrow depends on large measure upon how our children grow up today.

Thanks to television, for the first time the young are seeing history made before it is censored by their elders.

Our humanity rests upon a series of learned behaviors, woven together into patterns that are infinitely fragile and never directly inherited.

What is new is not bisexuality, but rather the widening of our awareness and acceptance of human capacities for sexual love.

To demand that another love what one loves is tyranny enough, but to demand that another hate what one hates, is even worse.

Any town that doesn't have sidewalks doesn't love its children.

Anthropology demands the open-mindedness with which one must look and listen, record in astonishment and wonder that which one would not have been able to guess.

We are at a point in history where a proper attention to space, and especially near space, may be absolutely crucial in bringing the world together.

We must have...a place where children can have a whole group of adults they can trust.

The need to find meaning...is as real as the need for trust and for love, for relations with other human beings.

You know you love someone when you cannot put into words how they make you feel.

Monogamous heterosexual love is probably one of the most difficult, complex and demanding of human relationships.

Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else.

As long as any adult thinks that he, like the parents and teachers of old, can become introspective, invoking his own youth to understand the youth before him, he is lost.