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Quotes About Diversity

At the corner she looked suddenly far away and saw the street go straight out to the sky. She looked up to the sky and saw it go everywhere, and my, she thought, how large it is, what a large place it is. What a large world. So many different people, so many different places, close by and far away, people everywhere, places everywhere. What a fine place to be in.
~ William Saroyan
Lidi jsou t?žký. Lidi jsou lidi. Lidi jsou zábava, hra, fantazie, kouzla a ?árymáry. Lidi miluju. Bláznivé lidi, krásné lidi, zklamané lidi, nemocné lidi, zlomené lidi, zni?ené lidi. Takové lidi miluju.
~ William Saroyan
Well, heaven forgive him! and forgive us all! Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall: Some run from brakes of ice, and answer none: And some condemned for a fault alone.
~ William Shakespeare
Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale her infinite variety.
~ William Shakespeare
I cannot speak your england.
~ William Shakespeare
They have been at a great feast of languages, and stolen the scraps.
~ William Shakespeare
A feast of languages
~ William Shakespeare
I'll teach you differences.
~ William Shakespeare
Motley's the only wear.
~ William Shakespeare
Strange is it that our bloods, Of colour, weight, and heat, pour'd all together, Would quite confound distinction, yet stand off In differences so mighty.
~ William Shakespeare
Fair, kind and true' is all my argument, 'Fair, kind, and true' varying to other words; And in this change is my invention spent, Three themes in one, which wondrous scope affords. 'Fair, kind, and true,' have often lived alone, Which three till now never kept seat in one.
~ William Shakespeare
Whose speechless song, being many, seeming one, Sings this to thee: 'thou single wilt prove none.
~ William Shakespeare
Such was the vainglory of a black boy who may have been alone among his race in bondage to have actually read pages from Sir Walter Scott and who knew the product of nine multiplied by nine, the name of the President of the United States, the existence of the continent of Asia, the capital of the state of New Jersey, and could spell words like Deuteronomy, Revelation, Nehemiah, Chesapeake, Southampton, and Shenandoah.
~ William Styron
It is an optical fact that no two persons ever saw the same rainbow, and it is equally true that no two men ever saw the same appearance in any object.
~ Unknown
We are global citizens with tribal souls', said the Danish poet Piet Hein.
~ William Woodruff
women are a little different than men.
~ Wilson Rawls
Tutti gli esseri umani nascevano uguali e i privilegi erano una creazione dell'uomo.
~ Winston Graham
We have always found the Irish a bit odd. They refuse to be English.
~ Winston S. Churchill
While the Hindu elaborates his argument, the Moslem sharpens his sword. Between these two races and creeds…the gulf is impassable.
~ Winston S. Churchill
We must build a kind of United States of Europe.
~ Winston S. Churchill
India is a geographical term. It is no more a united nation than the Equator.
~ Winston S. Churchill
So much world all at once--how it rustles and bustles! Moraines and morays and morasses and mussels, the flame, the flamingo, the flounder, the feather--
~ Wis?awa Szymborska
Only what is human can truly be foreign. The rest is mixed vegetation, subversive moles, and wind.
~ Wis?awa Szymborska
I am who I am. A coincidence no less unthinkable than any other. I could have had different ancestors, after all. I could have fluttered from another nest or crawled bescaled from under another tree. Nature's wardrobe holds a fair supply of costumes: spider, seagull, field mouse. Each fits perfectly right off and is dutifully worn into shreds.
~ Wislawa Szymborska