Mead Quotes:

And rest at last where souls unbodied dwell, In ever-flowing meads of Asphodel.

- Homer

topic: Soul, Lasts, Mead

Margaret Mead was both a student of civilization and an exemplar of it. To a public of millions, she brought the central insight of cultural anthropology: that varying cultural patterns express an underlying human unity. She mastered her discipline, but she also transcended it. Intrepid, independent, plain spoken, fearless, she remains a model for the young and a teacher from whom all may learn.

- Margaret Mead

topic: Teacher, Independent, Civilization, Mead

I have filled 3 Mead notebooks trying to figure out whether it was Them or Just Me.

- David Foster Wallace

topic: Notebook, Trying, Figures, Mead

My depth of purse is not so great Nor yet my bibliophilic greed, That merely buying doth elate: The books I buy I like to read: Still e'en when dawdling in a mead, Beneath a cloudless summer sky, By bank of Thames, or Tyne, or Tweed, The books I read — I like to buy.

- A. Edward Newton

topic: Summer, Book, Sky, Thames, Tweed

I want to convey that there is hope? that we're a world that is in turmoil but there is hope. I'm always amazed at how much love is in people's hearts even when they disagree about things. I think it's important for people to come together in music. It reminds me of the Margaret Mead saying, 'Never believe that a few caring people can't change the world. ' I think that's really true.

- Catie Curtis

topic: Believe, Heart, Caring, Saying Never, Mead

I have supped mead with lords and ladies; so to have I slumbered in nameless lanes and gored upon mutton.

- Dusty Rhodes

topic: Lords And Ladies, Superstar, Mutton, Mead

Colin Meads is the kind of player you expect to see emerging from a ruck with the remains of a jockstrap between his teeth.

- Tom O'Reilly

topic: Player, Teeth, Rugby, Mead

The weather behaved itself. In the spring, the little flowers came out obediently in the meads, and the dew sparkled, and the birds sang. In the summer it was beautifully hot for no less than four months, and, if it did rain just enough for agricultural purposes, they managed to arrange it so that it rained while you were in bed. In the autumn the leaves flamed and rattled before the west winds, tempering their sad adieu with glory. And in the winter, which was confined by statute to two months, the snow lay evenly, three feet thick, but never turned into slush.

- T. H. White

topic: Summer, Spring, Rain, Adieu, Mead

I think I draw most inspiration from writers like Richelle Mead and filmmakers like John Hughes. They both really understand the experience of being a teenager and how insistent and intense everything feels, but they're also smart, savvy, and fun.

- Amanda Hocking

source: "Meet Mega Bestselling Indie Heroine Amanda Hocking". Interview with Tonya Plank, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 5, 2011.

topic: Fun, Smart, Teenager, Being A Teenager, Mead

Global new money has houses everywhere, and serious helicopters, it doesn't aspire to the Miss Marple life of St. Mary Mead.

- Peter York

topic: Missing, House, Serious, Miss Marple, Mead

Any man that walks the mead In bud, or blade, or bloom, may find, According as his humors lead, A meaning suited to his mind.

- Alfred Lord Tennyson

source: Alfred Tennyson Tennyson, Baron, Alfred Lord Tennyson (2014). “Fifty Poems”, p.131, Cambridge University Press

topic: Nature, Men, Mind, Mead

If the layman cannot participate in decision making, he will have to turn himself over, essentially blind, to a hermetic elite. ... [The fundamental question becomes] are we still capable of self-government and therefore freedom? Margaret Mead wrote in a 1959 issue of Daedalus about scientists elevated to the status of priests. Now there is a name for this elevation, when you are in the hands of-one hopes-a benevolent elite, when you have no control over your political decisions. From the point of view of John Locke, the name for this is slavery.

- Gerald Holton

source: "Where is Science Taking Us? Gerald Holton Maps the Possible Routes". The Chronicle of Higher Education, May 18, 1981.

topic: Freedom, Names, Issues, Benevolent, Layman

However, every word she [Richelle Mead] wrote about Lissa in the book I highlighted and analyzed and interpreted until I felt like I’d completely absorbed her [Lissa]. So Richelle gave me insights through the pages of the book. I cried when I found out that she told the producers that I was her dream Lissa. It meant the world to me.

- Lucy Fry

topic: Dream, Book, World, Mead

These are the forgeries of jealousy; And never, since the middle summer's spring, Met we on hill, in dale, forest, or mead, By paved fountain or by rushy brook, Or in the beached margent of the sea, To dance our ringlets to the whistling wind, But with thy brawls thou hast disturbed our sport.

- William Shakespeare

source: William Shakespeare (1835). “The Beauties of Shakspeare”, p.58

topic: Summer, Sports, Beach, Forgery, Mead

Nature, exerting an unwearied power, Forms, opens, and gives scent to every flower; Spreads the fresh verdure of the field, and leads The dancing Naiads through the dewy meads.

- William Cowper

source: William Cowper (1855). “The complete poetical works of William Cowper, with life and critical notice of his writings”, p.14

topic: Nature, Flower, Giving, Mead

Let us away, my love, with happy speed; There are no ears to hear, or eyes to see, - Drown'd all in Rhenish and the sleepy mead. Awake! arise! my love and fearless be, For o'er the southern moors I have a home for thee.

- John Keats

source: John Keats (2015). “The Complete Poetry of John Keats: Ode on a Grecian Urn + Ode to a Nightingale + Hyperion + Endymion + The Eve of St. Agnes + Isabella + Ode to Psyche + Lamia + Sonnets and more from one of the most beloved English Romantic poets”, p.660, e-artnow

topic: Home, Eye, Southern, Mead, Moors

If there is a perfect book to start the year with it has to be Rebecca Mead's My Life in Middlemarch.

- The Edge

topic: Book, Years, Perfect, Middlemarch, Rebecca

Rebecca Mead's My Life in Middlemarch is a wise, humane, and delightful study of what some regard as the best novel in English. Mead has discovered an original and highly personal way to make herself an inhabitant both of the book and of George Eliot's imaginary city. Though I have read and taught the book these many years I find myself desiring to go back to it after reading Rebecca Mead's work.

- Harold Bloom

topic: Wise, Book, Reading, Middlemarch, Rebecca

Richelle Mead delivers sexy action and tongue-in-cheek hellish humor-if damnation is this fun, sign me up!

- Lilith Saintcrow

topic: Sexy, Fun, Action, Tongue In Cheek, Mead

Depended on the soldier. To relax, most of them put on headphones or played video games. Later in the war some of the younger officers began to read a lot of anthropology because they realized that the basic problem was that they were trying to fight a war in a culture they didn't understand. They might have read someone like Margaret Mead.

- George Packer

source: Source: www.bostonglobe.com

topic: War, Fighting, Games, Mead

some bosses are so greedy (for themselves only) they forget underlings are not thirteenth-century peasants who can be satisfied with a glass of mead and three festivals a year.

- Helen Gurley Brown

topic: Years, Glasses, Office, Mead

When winter stern, his gloomy front uprears, A sable void the barren earth appears; The meads no more their former verdure boast, Fast-bound their streams, and all their beauty lost; The herds, the flocks, in icy garments mourn, and wildly murmur for the Spring's return; From snow-topp'd hills the whirlwinds keenly blow, Howl through the woods, and pierce the vales below, Through the sharp air a flaky torrent flies, Mocks the slow sight, and hides the gloomy skies.

- George Crabbe

topic: Spring, Winter, Blow, Mead

Simplicity of life, even the barest, is not a misery, but the very foundation of refinement.

- William Morris

source: William Morris, Norman Kelvin (1999). “William Morris on Art and Socialism”, p.77, Courier Corporation

topic: Simple, Simplicity, Foundation, Refinement, Arts And Crafts

Speak not, move not, but listen, the sky is full of gold. No ripple on the river, no stir in field or fold, All gleams but naught doth glisten, but the far-off unseen sea. Forget days past, heart broken, put all memory by! No grief on the green hillside, no pity in the sky, Joy that may not be spoken fills mead and flower and tree.

- William Morris

topic: Memories, Flower, Moving, Glisten, Mead

And see the rivers how they run Through woods and meads, in shade and sun, Sometimes swift, sometimes slow, Wave succeeding wave, they go A various journey to the deep, Like human life to endless sleep!

- John Dyer

source: John Dyer (1822). “The Poems of J. D. The Life of J. D. by Dr. Johnson. The British Poets, Etc”, p.120

topic: Running, Sleep, Journey, Mead

Also one of my heroes is Syd Mead, who designed the vehicles for the first Tron. So, there are so many beautiful things happening here. And working with Joe was great. He's an architect, so I worked with other directors in between who were just about the action.

- Daniel Simon

source: "Interview with Tron: Legacy vehicle concept designer Daniel Simon". Interview with Toni-Marie Ippolito, www.tribute.ca. December 1, 2010.

topic: Beautiful, Hero, Firsts, Mead

Anthropology is separated from mass reading, and that is something that bothered Margaret Mead. She always said that she wrote everything for her grandmother, in a way that her grandmother could understand what she was saying.

- Lily King

source: Source: www.guernicamag.com

topic: Reading, Grandmother, Way, Mead

I look at Colin Meads and see a great big sheep farmer who carried the ball in his hands as though it was an orange pip.

- Bill McLaren

topic: Sheep, Hands, Orange, Mead

And I will trust that He who heeds The life that hides in mead and wold, Who hangs you alder's crimson beads, And stains these mosses green and gold, Will still, as He hath done, incline His gracious care to me and mine.

- John Greenleaf Whittier

source: John Greenleaf Whittier (1895). “The complete poetical works of John Greenleaf Whittier”

topic: Gold, Moss, Done, Crimson, Mead

Shall I, wasting in despair,Die because a woman's fair?Or make pale my cheeks with care,'Cause another's rosy are?Be she fairer than the day,Or the flowery meads in May,If she be not so to me,What care I how fair she be?

- George Wither

source: George Wither (1968). “The poetry of George Wither”, Ams Pr Inc

topic: Despair, Care, May, Mead

That old berk," muttered Aberforth, taking another swig of mead. "Thought the sun shone out of my brother's every orifice, he did.

- J. K. Rowling

topic: Brother, Sun, My Brother, Mead

I take no joy in mead nor meat, and song and laughter have become suspicious strangers to me. I am a creature of grief and dust and bitter longings. There is an empty place within me where my heart was once.

- George R. R. Martin

topic: Song, Laughter, Grief, Catelyn Stark, Empty Places

I'm just saying we can all work on our manners. We can say please and thank you. We can be punctual. We can just be nicer to one another. It's something we have in our power to do. It reminds me of that Margaret Mead quote: "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.

- Ellen DeGeneres

topic: Thoughtful, Doubt, Groups, Punctual, Please And Thank You

May, queen of blossoms, And fulfilling flowers, With what pretty music Shall we charm the hours? Wilt thou have pipe and reed, Blown in the open mead? Or to the lute give heed In the green bowers.

- Edward Thurlow, 1st Baron Thurlow

source: Edward Thurlow, “May”

topic: Queens, Flower, Giving, May Day, Spring May

The poetry of earth is never dead When all the birds are faint with the hot sun, And hide I cooling trees, a voice will run From hedge to hedge about the new-mown mead.

- John Keats

topic: Running, Voice, Bird, Grasshoppers, Mead

The even mead, that erst brought sweetly forth The freckled cowslip, burnet, and green clover, Wanting the scythe, all uncorrected, rank, Conceives by idleness, and nothing teems But hateful docks, rough thistles, kecksies, burrs, Losing both beauty and utility.

- William Shakespeare

source: 'Henry V' (1599) act 5, sc. 2, l. 44

topic: Weed, Green, Docks, Scythes, Thistles

Go along, go along quickly, and set all you have on the table for us. We don't want doughnuts, honey buns, poppy cakes, and other dainties; bring us a whole sheep, serve a goat and forty-year old mead! And plenty of vodka, not vodka with all sorts of fancies, not with raisins and flavorings, but pure foaming vodka, that hisses and bubbles like mad.

- Nikolai Gogol

topic: Sheep, Years, Cake, Raisins, Forty Years Old

For Immanuel Kant, the term anthropology embraced all the human sciences, and laid the foundation of familiar knowledge we need, to build solidly grounded ideas about the moral and political demands of human life. Margaret Mead saw mid-twentieth-century anthropology as engaged in a project no less ambitious than Kant's own, and her Terry Lectures on Continuities in Cultural Evolution provide an excellent point to enter into her reflections.

- Margaret Mead

source: "Continuities in Cultural Evolution". Book by Margaret Mead, 1964.

topic: Reflection, Ideas, Political, Twentieth Century, Mead

Mead's anthropology had many other red, white and blue- blooded virtues. One was the common anthropological conceit, out of which she made a career, to the effect that the ultimate value of studying other cultures was the use we could make of them to reconstruct our own - a heady kind of intellectual imperialism, as if the final meaning of others' lives was their significance for us.

- Margaret Mead

topic: Blue, Other Cultures, Careers, Red White And Blue, Mead

What are the determinative factors in the early training of the child which assures that it will be placid and contented, unaggressive and non-initiatory, non-competitive and responsive, warm, docile, and trusting?

- Margaret Mead

source: "Sex and Temperament in Three Primitive Societies". Book by Margaret Mead, 1935.

topic: Sex, Culture, Docile, Mead

You "have a date," you "go out with a date," you "groan because there isn't a decent date in town." A situation defined as containing a girl - or boy - of the right social background, the right degree of popularity, a little higher than your own.

- Margaret Mead

source: "Male and Female". Study by Margaret Mead, 1949.

topic: Girl, Boys, Men, Major Problems, Mead

I have these guilts about never having read Chaucer but I was talked out of learning Early Anglo-Saxon / Middle English by a friend who had to take it for her Ph.D. They told her to write an essay in Early Anglo-Saxon on any-subject-of-her-own-choosing. “Which is all very well,” she said bitterly, “but the only essay subject you can find enough Early Anglo-Saxon words for is ‘How to Slaughter a Thousand Men in a Mead Hall’.

- Helene Hanff

topic: Writing, Men, Guilt, Chaucer, Middle English