"When parents die, all of the partings of the past are reevoked with the realization that this time they will not return ..."

--

Source : Mary Catherine Bateson (1985). “With a Daughter's Eye: A Memoir of Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson”, Pocket Books

Mary Catherine Bateson

#Past Quotes #Parent Quotes #Realization Quotes

“On my way to the office in the morning, there are, in front of me, behind me, other men going to their jobs. I see them; if I dared, I would smile at them. I think to myself that I am a socialist, that they are the purpose of my life, of my efforts and that they do not know it yet.”
“Turkey's relations with its immediate neighbors are improving. They were pretty bad for a long time - with Syria they were abominable, and with Iran they were pretty bad. In both cases Turkey sees potential for trade, especially with Iran, where it gets a lot of natural gas. In good times Iran and Turkey find mutually profitable objects of exchange, but with Syria things have been very bad; Syria doesn't have much money and never will.”
“The most important benefit of patience consists in the way it acts as a powerful antidote to the affliction of anger.”
“I like hip-hop, I like yay music.”
“Prayer means dependence on the Lord.”
“Doubt the man who swears to his devotion.”

Source : "Tools Of Speech" by Maturin M. Ballou, (p. 519), 1886.
“Fashion is a social agreement. the result of a consensus of a large group of people.”
“The key is to design great golf courses all around the world. But my plan is only to do a select few. I devote so much of my time to these. I'm kind of a hands-on kind of person. I always want to do the best that I can in all of my life and this is no different.”

You may also like:

Gregory Bateson
Anthropologist
Heinz von Foerster
Scientist
Humberto Maturana
Philosopher
Margaret Mead
Cultural Anthropologist
Melissa de la Cruz
Author
Ruth Benedict
Anthropologist
William Bateson
Geneticist
William Bridges
Author
William Irwin Thompson
Critic