Quotes About Diversity

My sister gave my two-and-a-half year old this book called 'And Tango Makes Three,' about the gay penguin couple at the Central Park Zoo. They cared for an orphan egg 'til it hatched and then raised the baby penguin as their own. I cannot get through this book without copious amounts of tears and snot running down my face.

It is, I find, in zoology as it is in botany: all nature is so full, that that district produces the greatest variety which is the most examined.

America is so vast that almost everything said about it is likely to be true, and the opposite is probably equally true.

We are now at the point where we must decide whether we are to honour the concept of a plural society which gains strength through diversity, or whether we are to have bitter fragmentation that will result in perpetual tension and strife.

New York, the nation's thyroid gland.

A Bostonian - an American, broadly speaking.

A well-established village in New England or the northern Middle-West could afford a town drunkard, a town atheist, and a few Democrats.

Some Americans need hyphens in their names, because only part of them has come over; but when the whole man has come over, heart and thought and all, the hyphen drops of its own weight out of his name.

America is God's crucible, the great Melting-Pot where all the races of Europe are melting and reforming!... The Real American has not yet arived. He is only in the crucible, Itell you - he will be the fusion of all races, the common superman.

My father was a Creole, his father a Negro, and his father a monkey; my family, it seems, begins where yours left off.

When power narrows the area of man's concern, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of his existence.

I have never in my life learned anything from any man who agreed with me.

Beware of the man of one book.

A variety of nothing is superior to a monotony of something.

Then here's to the City of Boston, The town of the cries and the groans, Where the Cabots can't see the Kabotschniks, And the Lowells won't speak to the Cohns.

Canada is not so much a country as a clothesline nearly 4,000 miles long. St John's in Newfoundland is closer to Milan, Italy than to Vancouver.

No one is the worse for knowing two languages.

To me it's very obvious there are huge cultural differences between Americans and Canadians. But a lot of what we are is American.

Canada is a society, rather than a nation.

When I stand on a street in a Canadian city and look across the street, it couldn't be anywhere but Canada, but how can I prove it?

Canada is a live country - live, but not, like the States, kicking.

Canada has no cultural unity, no linguistic unity, no religious unity, no economic unity, no geographic unity. All it has is unity.

So long as the majority of Canadians have two countries, one here and one in Europe, national unity will remain a myth and a constant source of internecine quarrels.

We French-Canadians belong to one country, Canada: Canada is for us the whole world: but the English-Canadians have two countries, one here and one across the sea.