Margaret Mead Quotes About Past

Quotes about: Past

• Somehow, we have to get older people back close to growing children if we are to restore a sense of community, acquire knowledge of the past, and provide a sense of the future.

  Margaret Mead

  Children, Past, People

• Whatever advantages may have arisen, in the past, out of the existence of a specially favored and highly privileged aristocracy, it is clear to me that today no argument can stand that supports unequal opportunity or any intrinsic disqualification for sharing in the whole of life.

  Margaret Mead

  Past, Opportunity, Equality

  Margaret Mead (1972). “Blkberry Winter”

• The city as a center where, any day in any year, there may be a fresh encounter with a new talent, a keen mind or a gifted specialist-this is essential to the life of a country. To play this role in our lives a city must have a soul-a university, a great art or music school, a cathedral or a great mosque or temple, a great laboratory or scientific center, as well as the libraries and museums and galleries that bring past and present together. A city must be a place where groups of women and men are seeking and developing the highest things they know.

  Margaret Mead

  Country, Art, School

  Margaret Mead, Rhoda Bubendey Métraux (1979). “Margaret Mead, some personal views”, Angus & Robertson

• If the future is to remain open and free, we need people who can tolerate the unknown, who will not need the support of completely worked out systems or traditional blueprints from the past.

  Margaret Mead

  Past, People, Support

• In the presence of grandparent and grandchild, past and future merge in the present.

  Margaret Mead

  Grandchildren, Past, Grandparent

  Margaret Mead (1972). “Blkberry Winter”

• If we are to give our utmost effort and skill and enthusiasm, we must believe in ourselves, which means believing in our past and in our future, in our parents and in our children, in that particular blend of moral purpose and practical inventiveness which is the American character.

  Margaret Mead

  Children, Believe, Character

  "And Keep Your Powder Dry: An Anthropologist Looks at America". Book by Margaret Mead, 1942.

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