"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."
― Margaret Mead
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Age
More From Margaret Mead
- "Never believe that a few caring people can’t change the world. For, indeed, that’s all who ever have."
- "Prayer does not use up artificial energy, doesn’t burn up any fossil fuel, doesn’t pollute. Neither does song, neither does love, neither does the dance."
- "One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are when you don’t come home at night."
More In Age
- "Here’s a proposal, offered only partly in jest: no resident of the United States, whether born here or abroad, should get to be a citizen until age 18, at which time each such resident has to take a test."― Eric Liu
- "I saw how many people were poor and how many kids my age went to school hungry in the morning, which I don’t think most of my contemporaries in racially segregated schools in the South thought very much about at the time."― Charles Kuralt
- "A man growing old becomes a child again."― Sophocles