Top 43 Quotes by Margaret Mead

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.

Sooner or later I'm going to die, but I'm not going to retire.

Sister is probably the most competitive relationship within the family, but once the sisters are grown, it becomes the strongest relationship.

And when our baby stirs and struggles to be born it compels humility: what we began is now its own.

One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are when you don't come home at night.

I was wise enough to never grow up while fooling most people into believing I had.

A city is a place where there is no need to wait for next week to get the answer to a question, to taste the food of any country, to find new voices to listen to and familiar ones to listen to again.

It is utterly false and cruelly arbitrary to put all the play and learning into childhood, all the work into middle age, and all the regrets into old age.

I must admit that I personally measure success in terms of the contributions an individual makes to her or his fellow human beings.