Instead of needing lots of children,
by Margaret Mead
Instead of needing lots of children,
we need high-quality children.
- Margaret Mead
Related topics: Family Relationship
Sayings by Margaret Mead
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful,
committed people can change the world.
Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.
- Margaret Mead
I was brought up to believe that the only thing worth doing
was to add to the sum of accurate information in the world.
- Margaret Mead
The way to do fieldwork is never to
come up for air until it is all over.
- Margaret Mead
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Every time we liberate a woman, we liberate a man.
- Margaret Mead
I was wise enough to never grow up
while fooling most people into believing I had.
- Margaret Mead
And when our baby stirs and struggles to be born
it compels humility: what we began is now its own.
- Margaret Mead
For the very first time the young are
seeing history being made
before it is censored by their elders.
- Margaret Mead
Never believe that a few caring people can't change the world.
For, indeed, that's all who ever have.
- Margaret Mead
Human nature is potentially aggressive and destructive
and potentially orderly and constructive.
- Margaret Mead
The solution to adult problems tomorrow
depends in large measure upon
how our children grow up today.
- Margaret Mead
Life ... is like a parachute jump:
you have to get it right the first time.
- Margaret Mead
Many societies have educated their male children
on the simple device of teaching them not to be women.
- Margaret Mead
Always remember that you are absolutely unique.
Just like everyone else.
- Margaret Mead
I learned the value of hard work by working hard.
- Margaret Mead
What people say, what people do,
and what they say they do
are entirely different things.
- Margaret Mead
One of the oldest human needs is having someone
to wonder where you are when you don't come home at night.
- Margaret Mead
It may be necessary temporarily to accept a lesser evil,
but one must never label a necessary evil as good.
- Margaret Mead
Instead Sayings
Always be a first-rate version of yourself,
instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.
- Judy Garland
The talent for being happy is appreciating and liking what you have,
instead of what you don't have.
- Woody Allen
Do not follow where the path may lead.
Go, instead, where there is no path and leave a trail.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Love is saying "I feel differently,"
instead of "You're wrong."
- Anonymous
Instead of dwelling on negative thoughts,
cause your mind to dwell on peace and joy.
- Ernest Holmes
Instead of worrying about what people say of you,
why not spend time trying to accomplish
something they will admire.
- Dale Carnegie
Instead of noblemen,
let us have noble villages of men.
- Henry David Thoreau
Trust your own instinct.
Your mistakes might as well be your own,
instead of someone else's.
- Billy Wilder
Too many people are thinking of security
instead of opportunity.
They seem more afraid of life than death.
- James F. Bymes
Lots Sayings
Genuine heroes - no batteries needed -
bring lots of open-mind and at least a little courage.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There is no pleasure in having nothing to do;
the fun is in having lots to do and not doing it.
- Mary Wilson Little
Children Sayings
Mother is the name for God
in the lips and hearts of little children.
- William Makepeace Thackeray
We do not inherit the Earth from our ancestors,
we borrow it from our children.
- Native American Proverb
We will not learn how to live together in peace
by killing each other's children.
- Jimmy Carter
We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children
that makes the heart too big for the body.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
We must teach our children to resolve
their conflicts with words, not weapons.
- William J. Clinton
There are two lasting bequests we can give our children
One is roots, the other is wings.
- Hodding Carter
Children are educated by what the grown-up is
and not by his talk.
- Carl Jung
How paramount the future is to the present
when one is surrounded by children.
- Charles Darwin
Your children need your presence
more than your presents.
- Jesse Jackson
My children have made me more aggressive about the world
that they're about to inhabit.
- Bono
Unlike grown-ups, children have little need to deceive themselves.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The most interesting information comes from children,
for they tell all they know and then stop.
- Mark Twain
Treat the earth well,
It was not given to you by your parents,
It was loaned to you by your children.
- Native American Proverb
There can be no keener revelation of a society's soul
than the way in which it treats its children.
- Nelson Mandela
Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore,
and that's what parents were created for.
- Ogden Nash
The most important thing a father
can do for his children
is to love their mother.
- Henry Ward Beecher
From the solemn gloom of the temple
children run out to sit in the dust,
God watches them play and forgets the priest.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children
of the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.
- Napoleon Hill
Let us honor all children,
and put ourselves into service
preparing a magnificent
earthly home for future generations.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Live so that when your children think of fairness,
caring and integrity, they think of you.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity
in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.
- Albert Einstein
Children are natural Zen masters;
their world is brand new in each and every moment.
- John Bradshaw
All men are children, and of one family.
The same tale sends them all to bed,
and wakes them in the morning.
- Henry David Thoreau
Need Sayings
You do not need anyone's permission to be your true self.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I do not need anyone's permission to be my true self.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Listen to the compass of your heart.
All you need lies within you.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
"Hurry up" ranks right up there with "you need to"
as a destroyer of our humanity.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
All you need is love.
- John Lennon
There is nothing I ever need to have.
There is nothing I ever need to do.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Stand Tall, Stand Proud.
Know that you are unique and magnificent.
You do not need the approval of others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We can never get enough of what we don't really need.
- Matthew Kelly
I have no need to conform to the stereotypes
others have defined for me.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I Never "Need To"
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Know that you do not need anyone's permission
to be your true self.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There is nothing I ever need to do.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Love me when I least deserve it,
because that's when I really need it.
- Swedish Proverb
I am one with the power and wisdom of the Universe.
I have all that I need.
- Louise L. Hay
There is nothing I ever need to have.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Love without jealousy. Love without need.
Let love be an unconditional gift.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You don't need anybody to tell you
who you are or what you are.
You are what you are!
- John Lennon
Do not think that love,
in order to be genuine,
has to be extraordinary.
What we need is to love without getting tired.
- Mother Teresa
The winds of grace are always blowing;
all we need to do is raise our sails.
- Anonymous
One service to need heals an ancient wound.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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