Quotes About Diversity

Books are not written about proper children. They would be so dull nobody would read them.

It was really dreadful to be different from other people...and yet rather wonderful, too, as if you were a being strayed from another star.

Everybody is a little insane on some points

There's such a lot of different Annes in me. I sometimes think that is why I'm such a troublesome person. If I was just the one Anne it would be ever so much more comfortable, but then it wouldn't be half so interesting.

Out of your world perhaps, Susan — but not out of mine,' said Anne with a faint smile.

Anne Shirley, how often have I told you never to let one of those Italians in the house! I don't believe in encouraging them to come around at all.

That Anne-girl improves all the time," she said. "I get tired of other girls—there is such a provoking and eternal sameness about them. Anne has as many shades as a rainbow and every shade is the prettiest while it lasts.

DiÄŸer insanlardan farkl? olan kiÅŸiler hep tuhaf olarak görülür.

Oh, well, it takes all kinds of people to make a world...

It takes all sorts of people to make a world, as I've often heard, but I think there are some who could be spared.

Ä°nsanlar gerçek düÅŸüncelerini dile getirseler bu dünya çok daha ilginç bir yer olurdu; gerçi zaten çok ilginç bir yer.

And he says he doesn't believe all the heathen will be eternally lost. The idea! If they won't all the money we've been giving to Foreign Missions will be clean wasted, that's what!

ourselves — so much in men and women, so much in art and literature, so much everywhere in which to delight, and for which to be thankful.

There's such a lot of different Annes in me. I sometimes think that is why I'm such a troublesome person. If I was just the one Anne it would be ever so much more comfortable, but then it wouldn't be half so interesting. One June evening, when

It really was dreadful to be so different from other people... and yet rather wonderful, too, as if you were being strayed from another star.

The number of those who have nothing to recommend them and of those in whom nothing but good can be found is probably equal

I was a thirty-eight-year-old man, so I had plenty of time to consider the world through the eyes of someone else: yet that someone had rarely been a woman.

Because America is not a democracy, it's not a place of opportunity, he knows, if you can't choose to be white.

We're all different in many ways and alike in many ways and special in some sort of way.

Straights don't compare themselves to us!

Uva uvum vivendo varia fit

But the English are different, and they don't know how to be other than different.

Uva uvam vivendo varia fit

Van der Stel, the thin Afrikaner who spoke of "Kaffirs" and expected blacks to call him "Baas" —but who also had genuine respect for the Zulu scouts, and always listened to their advice.