Quotes About Cosmopolitan

Epictetus, a first-century Stoic philosopher, who said, "Never, when asked one's country, answer, 'I am Athenian or Corinthian,' but 'I am a citizen of the world.

I remember when I was young, many cities in the Muslim world were cosmopolitan cities with a lot of culture.

People who think of a nationalist party sometimes think 'inward-looking and parochial.' The kind of nationalism I represent is the opposite of that.

New York felt to me like what America should be - a representation of the world in this small pocket.

Well, you can't say you are lucky to live in Champaign, but I was lucky to be at the University of Illinois. It's a very international cosmopolitan community. That's very helpful.

Somebody once told me, black people, in and of themselves, are cosmopolitan. There's cosmopolitanism within the black experience. There's an incredible amount.

London was a really multi-racial city ... It's incredible how comfortable people are with race there.

London that evening

I think New York City is a lot more European than the rest of America; it's much easier for an English person to wrap their head around it.

I'm a big-city boy. What I like is big cities. It's not just what I like. It's what I write about.

Sarajevo was this beautiful city, very cosmopolitan, multiethnic, full of wonderful people, artists and writers and poets and Serbs and Muslims and Croats, and living side by side. And then this medieval siege, and it was a medieval siege, came, and the Bosnian Serbs were on the hills lobbing in rockets and grenades and mortars.

I had started writing as a poet in a closed, post-Revival, claustrophobic world, where the shadows of the national upheaval and the intense effort - the intense self-conscious effort - to make a literary movement were still evident. Now we lived a life as writers that was more cosmopolitan, more open, that had more travel and exchange.

Portland has all the accoutrements of a big city, but the heart and soul of it is a small town, so that creates an intimacy in a large environment.

There's nowhere else like London. Nothing at all, anywhere.

I was happy in Dublin because it is very cosmopolitan.

I love my apartment in New York.

New York est la ville où l'on se sent chez soi quand on est de nulle part.

The way our business is, the way it works out, we end up being residents of everywhere.

For I must confess I had the Londoner's sense of superiority in those days, the half-formed belief that countrymen, and particularly those who inhabited the remoter corners of our island, were more superstitious, more gullible, more slow-witted, unsophisticated and primitive, than we cosmopolitans.

Me ciñe, innumerable, la ciudad

He is a foreigner, he is from nowhere, from everywhere, citizen of the world, cosmopolitan. Do not send him back to his origins.

One who is happy being a cosmopolitan shelters a shattered origin in the night of his wandering.

L.A. can be a little bit daunting. It is great, but it is a very cutthroat area and industry to be in, so London feels a bit more homely for me.

London is not just an international financial centre: it is also one of the most ethnically diverse places on earth. Three hundred languages are represented within its boundaries, and - as is true of some other English cities - more than half of London's inhabitants describe themselves as non-white.