Mary Catherine Bateson quote: "The Christian tradition was passed on to me as a great rich mixture, a bouillabaisse of human imagination and wonder brewed from the richness of individual lives."

The family is changing, not disappearing. We have to broaden our understanding of it, look for the n...
MARY CATHERINE BATESON

Of any stopping place in life, it is good to ask whether it will be a good place from which to go on...
MARY CATHERINE BATESON

The timing of death, like the ending of a story, gives a changed meaning to what preceded it.
MARY CATHERINE BATESON

Wherever a story comes from, whether it is a familiar myth or a private memory, the retelling exempl...
MARY CATHERINE BATESON

The past empowers the present, and the sweeping footsteps leading to this present mark the pathways ...
MARY CATHERINE BATESON

Worlds can be found by a child and an adult bending down and looking together under the grass stems ...
MARY CATHERINE BATESON

Fear is not a good teacher. The lessons of fear are quickly forgotten.
MARY CATHERINE BATESON

Sharing is sometimes more demanding than giving.
MARY CATHERINE BATESON

What would it be like to have not only color vision but culture vision, the ability to see the multi...
MARY CATHERINE BATESON

The family is changing not disappearing. We have to broaden our understanding of it, look for the ne...
MARY CATHERINE BATESON

Fluidity and discontinuity are central to the reality in which we live.
MARY CATHERINE BATESON

Goals too clearly defined can become blinkers.
MARY CATHERINE BATESON

There are few things as toxic as a bad metaphor. You can't think without metaphors.
MARY CATHERINE BATESON

The capacity to combine commitment with skepticism is essential to democracy.
MARY CATHERINE BATESON

Human beings do not eat nutrients, they eat food.
MARY CATHERINE BATESON

Real winners in a rapidly changing world will be those who are open to alternatives and able to resp...
MARY CATHERINE BATESON

Mum's mobile was the most immoblie cell phone in the world. It often lived on the top of the bookshe...
CATHERINE BATESON

Sharing is sometimes more demanding than giving.
MARY BATESON

I became very close with Charles Bronson and his wife, Kim. We did 'Sea Wolf' together along...
CATHERINE MARY STEWART

Robert Preston in 'The Last Starfighter' had an aura. It was almost a surreal experience mee...
CATHERINE MARY STEWART

'Night of the Comet' established me as a strong woman. And let's face it, this business ...
CATHERINE MARY STEWART

I have nothing but admiration for the actors on soap operas. It is unbelievably challenging to put o...
CATHERINE MARY STEWART

I love acting, and ultimately all my characters are very different, and each character I love in a d...
CATHERINE MARY STEWART

I began dancing when I was 7 years old. I was told that I had the perfect ballet dancer's body a...
CATHERINE MARY STEWART

New York is a great place to be as an unrepresented actor because there are so many 'open auditi...
CATHERINE MARY STEWART

Lance Guest in 'The Last Starfighter' had such integrity and held himself to such a high sta...
CATHERINE MARY STEWART

'The Last Starfighter' was the first movie I did in the U.S. It was an absolute joy to be a ...
CATHERINE MARY STEWART

I don't have a favorite genre. I love to work and live vicariously through every character. It&#...
CATHERINE MARY STEWART

Acting is very personal. I don't want to be like anybody else. There are positions I would like ...
CATHERINE MARY STEWART

When I graduated from high school, I made the decision to pursue my dance training in London, Englan...
CATHERINE MARY STEWART

I realized that 'performing' was what I wanted to do when I did my first professional gig as...
CATHERINE MARY STEWART

Both TV and movies seem to be produced in a more similar way as time goes on. It used to be that mov...
CATHERINE MARY STEWART

There's no limit to what you can accomplish, but there's always someone one step ahead of yo...
CATHERINE MARY STEWART

To think straight, it is advisable to expect all qualities and attributes, adjectives, and so on to ...
GREGORY BATESON

Interesting phenomena occur when two or more rhythmic patterns are combined, and these phenomena ill...
GREGORY BATESON

It is to the Riddle of the Sphinx that I have devoted fifty years of professional life as an anthrop...
GREGORY BATESON

Official education was telling people almost nothing of the nature of all those things on the seasho...
GREGORY BATESON

It is of first-class importance that our answer to the Riddle of the Sphinx should be in step with h...
GREGORY BATESON

But epistemology is always and inevitably personal. The point of the probe is always in the heart of...
GREGORY BATESON

In the transmission of human culture, people always attempt to replicate, to pass on to the next gen...
GREGORY BATESON

There is a strong tendency in explanatory prose to invoke quantities of tension, energy, and whatnot...
GREGORY BATESON

It is impossible, in principle, to explain any pattern by invoking a single quantity.
GREGORY BATESON

Numbers are the product of counting. Quantities are the product of measurement. This means that numb...
GREGORY BATESON

If a man achieves or suffers change in premises which are deeply embedded in his mind, he will surel...
GREGORY BATESON

Synaptic summation is the technical term used in neurophysiology for those instances in which some n...
GREGORY BATESON

Thirty years ago, we used to ask: Can a computer simulate all processes of logic? The answer was yes...
GREGORY BATESON

In Darwin's time no serious attempt had been made to examine the manifestations of variability. A va...
WILLIAM BATESON

It is as if the stuff of which we are made were totally transparent and therefore imperceptible and ...
GREGORY BATESON

Logic can often be reversed, but the effect does not precede the cause.
GREGORY BATESON

Rather, for all objects and experiences, there is a quantity that has optimum value. Above that quan...
GREGORY BATESON

A major difficulty is that the answer to the Riddle of the Sphinx is partly a product of the answers...
GREGORY BATESON

Science, like art, religion, commerce, warfare, and even sleep, is based on presuppositions.
GREGORY BATESON

If we pursue this matter further, we shall be told that the stable object is unchanging under the im...
GREGORY BATESON

Language commonly stresses only one side of any interaction.
GREGORY BATESON

We have been trained to think of patterns, with the exception of those of music, as fixed affairs. I...
GREGORY BATESON

Every move we make in fear of the next war in fact hastens it.
GREGORY BATESON

When we think of coconuts or pigs, there are no coconuts or pigs in the brain.
GREGORY BATESON

My children's favourite thing is to con me into buying them ice-cream if there's not too big...
CATHERINE MARTIN

I like that time is marked by each sunrise and sunset whether or not you actually see it.
CATHERINE OPIE

How nice it would be to breeze through life and just brush things off. I never read reviews because ...
CATHERINE TATE

It's funny, I listen to friends who talk about back when they were 14, eight, 16, whatever, as i...
CATHERINE MCCORMACK

In America you need a bodyguard to go out.
CATHERINE DENEUVE

Night time is really the best time to work. All the ideas are there to be yours because everyone el...
CATHERINE O'HARA

I listen to Radio 4 and put the iPod on shuffle. I like the randomness of, say, the Stones, then som...
CATHERINE MCCORMACK

When people bother you in any way, it is because their souls are trying to get your divine attention...
CATHERINE PONDER

If you want greater prosperity in your life, start forming a vacuum to receive it.
CATHERINE PONDER

I think either Robert Blake wither pulled the trigger or hired someone to do it, but it will be a to...
CATHERINE CRIER

Sex seemed like a thing that might only happen to me at random, outside my control, like the weather...
CATHERINE LACEY

The forgiving state of mind is a magnetic power for attracting good.
CATHERINE PONDER

We are made for larger ends than Earth can encompass. Oh, let us be true to our exalted destiny.
CATHERINE BOOTH

When you hold resentment toward another, you are bound to that person or condition by an emotional l...
CATHERINE PONDER

I'm not an admirer of action movies. I just think, Oh my God, it must be so tiring.
CATHERINE DENEUVE

I grew up in the Alps and France, and Barbie was my first exposure to the American woman. For me she...
CATHERINE MALANDRINO

I don't think Amber taped Scott or testified for money, but the opportunity certainly presented ...
CATHERINE CRIER

The fact that I ended up married to a decent man is still a source of amazement to me, thanks to ...
CATHERINE JINKS

Mostly I wanted to be a writer, though for a couple of years there I wanted to be an animator, becau...
CATHERINE JINKS

I'm afraid of needles, except acupuncture needles.
CATHERINE O'HARA

I know. I'm lazy. But I made myself a New Years resolution that I would write myself something r...
CATHERINE O'HARA

We're just into toys, whether it's motorcycles or race cars or computers. I've got the P...
CATHERINE BELL

I hope I haven't grown up. The cliche for all artists is that you don't want to lose that ch...
CATHERINE HARDWICKE

If you decide to tell a kid that looks don't matter, she can prove you wrong every day. Because ...
CATHERINE HARDWICKE

A woman has to be intelligent, have charm, a sense of humor, and be kind. It's the same qualitie...
CATHERINE DENEUVE

I was its skin, its movement, its shape, its god, its creator, its destroyer. And you thought Dexter...
CATHERINE ASTOLFO

Character roles definitely age better than your ingenues. You don't get to keep doing that.
CATHERINE O'HARA

I was at a party in London when I met Bond producer Barbara Broccoli. She introduced herself, and I ...
CATHERINE BACH

Acting is about giving yourself away, like the U2 song 'With or Without You.' You just don&#...
CATHERINE HICKS

At Cornell, my acting teacher said you cannot be religious and be an artist. I sort of got it, becau...
CATHERINE HICKS

If you work in casting, it's sort of not cool to want to act. A lot of people think that casting...
CATHERINE KEENER

Can you have it all, as a woman? Can you be a creative artist and have stability and a home life? Ho...
CATHERINE HARDWICKE

Sunday evenings often feel like the weekend is over before it's even begun.
CATHERINE MCCORMACK

Constance Spry was one of the first people to put flowers in urns and ceramic swans and other unusua...
CATHERINE MARTIN

I always was going to be a writer. The other jobs were just to keep me in food. Though I enjoyed the...
CATHERINE FISHER

To solve math problems, you need to know the basic mathematics before you can start applying it.
CATHERINE ASARO

Before we took down the tree each year, Dad would always say a prayer that we would be together the ...
CATHERINE HICKS

I think the clothes in Belle de Jour are very important to the style of the film. Even today, it is ...
CATHERINE DENEUVE

On Belle de Jour, the producer was very protective. It was very hard for me.
CATHERINE DENEUVE

I've worked on really big budget movies as a designer - 'Vanilla Sky,' 'Three Kings;...
CATHERINE HARDWICKE

I'd run out of options. That's how these things usually happen, how a person ends up placing all her...
CATHERINE LACEY

None of us know how to fix ourselves, at least not entirely, not well enough.
CATHERINE LACEY

I'll literally pay three Hollywood readers who don't know me to read my scripts under the ra...
CATHERINE HARDWICKE

My characters are at their best, when I let them lead
CATHERINE DORSETTE

Lewa, mystery-king of know-nothingness. That's me!
CATHERINE HAPKA

Insecurity is just something that's there all the time. I've never been crippled by it.
CATHERINE KEENER

Fur is my default, my indulgence. All human beings and myself have a lot of defaults. Many indulgenc...
CATHERINE MALANDRINO

Someone said once that they'd never heard of a crime they couldn't imagine committing, and I realize...
CATHERINE LACEY

Because I was a shy and awkward child, I used humour to deflect attention. It was a controlling mech...
CATHERINE TATE

Putting TV stars in plays just to get people in is wrong. You have to have the right people in the r...
CATHERINE TATE

If we are to better the future we must disturb the present.
CATHERINE BOOTH

I had always liked, well, who didn't love Lestat and fall in love with 'Interview with the V...
CATHERINE HARDWICKE

I'm not a public figure at all. I don't really go out a lot to places where there are people...
CATHERINE KEENER

You make your son out to be to be almost an idiot; well let me tell you something, Mrs Loan, if he w...
CATHERINE COOKSON

Oh God, I'm sorry I bring trouble on people. I don't mean to, you know that, you know that. And don'...
CATHERINE COOKSON

The Girl was gone, buried in the past. She never wanted to hear that name again. She was a woman for...
CATHERINE COOKSON

We have five kids that never came off the court, ... I know they were tired, but they showed a lot o...
CATHERINE YOUNG

Whew, we knew Bentonville was going to be good, and one of the teams to beat in the conference ... I...
CATHERINE YOUNG

We kept saying, If you'll load the gun, we'll put it down.' It was a great win for us,
CATHERINE YOUNG

Patty's our captain and she's worked on her leadership skills. She's gotten so much better at setter...
CATHERINE YOUNG

We started off a little slow. The heat was definitely a factor. Once we got going, we had 3-4 nice c...
CATHERINE YOUNG

Four out of five people bitten would have no idea that they have West Nile Virus, one in five will g...
CATHERINE YOUNG

It was so small and senseless. A petty argument lost him his life.
CATHERINE YOUNG

We don't want to start settling for moral victories, but that was a moral victory for us. We went to...
CATHERINE YOUNG

Last year she was an average to an above-average setter. This year her setting has tremendously impr...
CATHERINE YOUNG

She'll be able to play in college, ... and that was her goal. We weren't sure last year, but someone...
CATHERINE YOUNG

The first retrospective was held in Berlin in the mid-1990s. His centennial was 2002: There were a b...
CATHERINE WYLER

We tried to get a good combination.
CATHERINE WYLER

She's fully engaged at all levels.
CATHERINE WYLER

The fact that men and women are nominated this year in films that women have directed is good for wo...
CATHERINE WYLER

It was kind of weird being scheduled. We just came in with our bags and our pillows and said, 'We're...
CATHERINE WOOD

We joked that she would either be an income tax deduction baby or a first New Year baby. Either way,...
CATHERINE WOOD

My doctor decided it would be easier on me if I didn't wait. It was really easy. It only took six mi...
CATHERINE WOOD

The mother's little helpers of the 1960s and 1970s are all available now on the Internet. You don't ...
CATHERINE WOOD

Because the old rate, if you will, didn't produce enough profits.
CATHERINE WILLIAMS

They're not going to be real sympathetic for you staying at the old rate,
CATHERINE WILLIAMS

Long term, what's the impact? Is it worth getting $300 back and having your niece never speak to you...
CATHERINE WILLIAMS

They seemed very happy to be here.
CATHERINE WILLIAMS

The first byword is that lending to family and friends on a handshake is probably one of the most sp...
CATHERINE WILLIAMS

Let's say Susie and Bob show up to the family picnic. He's got a new Coleman stove, he owes you mone...
CATHERINE WILLIAMS

It's really a message of hope and belief. Father Hedges took an old old tradition and brought it bac...
CATHERINE WILLIAMS

For many people, the reason they're keeping their financial life in chaos is that they really don't ...
CATHERINE WILLIAMS

If you really want to make it easy on yourself, put a calendar, pens and pencils, stamps and envelop...
CATHERINE WILLIAMS

[Probably the riskiest thing you can do is to either co-sign a loan or borrow money to lend to someo...
CATHERINE WILLIAMS

This is a sad day for our democracy. The court has not only missed an opportunity to right a great h...
CATHERINE WEISS

Once Nebraska went, Iowa was the only state outside of the Confederacy to maintain the rule.
CATHERINE WEISS

This is a sad day for our democracy.
CATHERINE WEISS

The State and City Boards of Elections have been aware of these illegal practices for at least two y...
CATHERINE WEISS

We have a 1,300-square-foot house and their presence is always known. We needed to find harmony, wit...
CATHERINE WAGNER

In the last 25 years, my work has dealt with such ideas,
CATHERINE WAGNER

[A Gothic Revival armchair next to a petite red chair demonstrates the] stereotypical rhetoric about...
CATHERINE WAGNER

This relates to my other work and fits into a long line of thinking. I am using furniture here as a ...
CATHERINE WAGNER

They are hybrid narratives so that the viewer constructs his or her own story.
CATHERINE WAGNER

[Tate still didn't know quite what to think.] I just came up here from New Orleans, ... And now this...
CATHERINE TATE

We say to her, 'Seriously, people will think you are taking the mickey out of them if you say that w...
CATHERINE TATE

Did Graeme Norton break your heart, sir?
CATHERINE TATE

Are you disrespecting me?
CATHERINE TATE

She is genuinely adorable, but she will say to people she doesn't know, 'Have an amazing day',
CATHERINE TATE

There's no simple answer. We're certainly not going to be able to attract enough immigrants who can ...
CATHERINE SWIFT

It's a fairly permanent situation. You can always tough something out for a little while, but it's g...
CATHERINE SWIFT

And the number one reason is fuel prices,
CATHERINE SWIFT

If you have fewer jobs created and less of a boost to the economy overall, then that effect naturall...
CATHERINE SWIFT

It's just not practical. Seventy-five per cent of businesses in this country have fewer than five em...
CATHERINE SWIFT

The vacancy rate for the smallest companies---those with fewer than five employees---is four times t...
CATHERINE SWIFT

The growing concern with business input costs such as energy and insurance ... will start to hamper ...
CATHERINE SWIFT

[Several American states have either lowered or put a moratorium on gas taxes in the wake of hurrica...
CATHERINE SWIFT

It touches everybody to some extent. Many businesses have travel as a component of the business, ......
CATHERINE SWIFT

Our major goal with school construction procurement is to ensure that we have efficient state-of-the...
CATHERINE SULLIVAN

We've put $623 million into 20 projects so far, ... That means more than half of our students are in...
CATHERINE SULLIVAN

I think we're always in a continuous cycle of trying to attract people who really want to teach in a...
CATHERINE SULLIVAN

We're really trying to focus more on data, so that you know where your students are at any point in ...
CATHERINE SULLIVAN

We know that all our schools are trying very hard, ... To be put on a list -- it's just a stigma I'm...
CATHERINE SULLIVAN

He overall thinks that No Child Left Behind has laudable goals, but it's too narrowly focused on jus...
CATHERINE SULLIVAN

[Over a year ago, the New Haven school system launched a strategic road map that shares some goals a...
CATHERINE SULLIVAN

They clicked right off. They were thinking about getting married.
CATHERINE SULLIVAN

This year, more of the artists are combining two or three processes to make one straight print. Ther...
CATHERINE SULLIVAN

It really bothered me that this had happened to her so young, at the age of 17, and she had been giv...
CATHERINE SMITH

He was walking on the side of the road in the grass, facing traffic and pretty much doing whatever h...
CATHERINE SMITH

Basically, the giveaway is a response to the raid -- to show that city officials and community is be...
CATHERINE SMITH

I remember when The Fast and the Furious came out. My girlfriends and I waited in line way before th...
CATHERINE SMITH

This is the first time we?re saying something like this because we haven?t seen this kind of increas...
CATHERINE ROSSI

We'd like to know why prices are not declining in line with the national average.
CATHERINE ROSSI

Rate increases for lodgings are mostly a result of supply and demand, especially in major markets. R...
CATHERINE ROSSI

When we see gas prices going up to where they are now with no clear end in sight, people reconsider ...
CATHERINE ROSSI

We are seeing gas prices drop dramatically. Thirty states are below $3, compared to 17 last Monday.
CATHERINE ROSSI

Being lost doesn't always have to be a bad thing. After all, when Columbus got lost, he discovered A...
CATHERINE ROSSI

Oil companies are responsibly reflecting the public?s outcry at the pump over gas prices. We have no...
CATHERINE ROSSI

As we learn more and more about the teenage brain, which tells us that teenagers brains are not full...
CATHERINE ROSSI

AAA knows that motorists are outraged that oil companies are making record profits while drivers dig...
CATHERINE ROSSI

People planned to drive less and expected to change their driving habits. They figure out ways to ma...
CATHERINE ROSSI

The person who did this to these two needs to pay for it. He will never bring my son back or Sebasti...
CATHERINE ROBERTS

It just seemed natural.
CATHERINE ROBERTS

They have a much better work ethic, ... In China there's no Chinese Idol show, no chance for instant...
CATHERINE ROBERTS

I get very depressed, ... American students are so much lazier. They don't work a fraction as hard a...
CATHERINE ROBERTS

The key to eating real Chinese food is don't ask what it is,
CATHERINE ROBERTS

I like to travel, I like to do it as much as I can,
CATHERINE ROBERTS

I'm very proud of Danbury High School. He is very connected to his own high school (in Stamford), so...
CATHERINE RICHARD

We replace desks one an as-needed basis, but is this something we want to look into now? Yes.
CATHERINE RICHARD

The new (teacher) contract will call for a little more freedom for this type of work, and we will ha...
CATHERINE RICHARD

One of the things we have tried to do is work on a culture to increase student achievement for all s...
CATHERINE RICHARD

Joan is part of a wonderful team of nurses at the school. We have 3,000 students here, and three nur...
CATHERINE RICHARD

Ideally it'd be awesome if the two of us were paired together in the five-K. We really like being pa...
CATHERINE RANEY

We need to start working on development. We really need kids to start skating. We've got talent out ...
CATHERINE RANEY

The Christian tradition was passed on to me as a great rich mixture, a bouillabaisse of human imagination and wonder brewed from the richness of individual lives.

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Mary Catherine Bateson

The Christian tradition was passed on to me as a great rich mixture, a bouillabaisse of human imagination and wonder brewed from the richness of individual lives.

Mary Catherine Bateson

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