Quotes About Global

It isn't such a bad thing to always know that someone on the other side of the world cares about you.

but even more than that, she could have been born anywhere in the world, and to anyone, she and her loved ones suffering in ways she could barely fathom when she listened to the international news.

Science, for hundreds of years, has spanned the differences between cultures and between countries.

The Navy's paid for you to go through school, and then they need doctors to go out and take care of people who are in various different parts of the world. I decided to pay back my time first as an undersea medical officer. I was stationed in Scotland.

Can something be a secret if everyone in the whole world knows it?

Biden is making America the world's ATM again.

The global spice trade underwent an upheaval in 1453, when Constantinople fell to the Turks

Mandeville argued that it was possible for people to circumnavigate the globe, but he warned

The lure of spices impelled sober, cautious financiers to back highly risky expeditions to unknown parts of the globe

Magellan had a well-painted globe in which the entire world was depicted," wrote Bartolomé de las Casas

her right hand gently, even protectively, rests on a globe to symbolize her newly acquired power in world affairs.

Portugal was the first European nation to exploit the sea for spices and the global empire that went along with them.

From here you don't see any borders," he said. "Lines on a map. Amazing that we pay them so much attention.

In contrast to nearly all European teams—the Dutch team has at times been the notable exception—the French team is and has long been a remarkably diverse group. It is a global team, a kind of transcultural republic

Ever since they invented Hello Kitty, the world hasn't been the same. You can safely chart the rise of The Culture of Cute since that flat-faced skank started showing up everywhere.

I have to say that when you tour the world, obviously, the jetlags and different hours and ways of living and traveling, a lot of hours in the plane, and you wake up in the morning and you're not quite sure where you are, and it is very tiring.

We must try to think beyond our homes, beyond the fire burning in the fireplace, beyond sending our children to school or getting to work in the morning. We must try to think how we can help this world. If we don't help, nobody will. It is our turn to help the world.

Americans believe their ideas are universal—the supremacy of the individual and free, unfettered expression. But they are not. Never were . . .

In an underdeveloped country, don't drink the water; in a developed country, don't breathe the air.

A world with a sudden limit on air travel would be tremendously different from the one we live in now.

Nationalism and jingoism—essential corollaries of militarism—are also systemic imperatives because they divide the global working classes, and bind them to the elites oppressing them through the visceral cultural power of patriotism and nationalism.

We are not just a skin-encapsulated ego, a soul encased in flesh. We are each other and we are the world.

The world is on fire! Why am I sitting in front of my computer? It is because I don't have a fire extinguisher for the world, and there isn't a global 911 to call.

Our intellectual habit is to find the One Cause, our scientific programming is to measure it, and our political gearing is to attack it. When the One Cause is global, we cross our fingers and hand over responsibility and power to distant global institutions. They'll take care of it. We hope. But too often, blaming climate change means not doing anything at all.