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Quotes About Connection

We emphasize our differences by nationality, race and financially. [...] It's our common humanity that defines us.
~ Naveen Andrews
One of the hardest things for boys to learn is that a teacher is human. One of the hardest things for a teacher to learn is not to try and tell them.
~ Alan Bennett, The History Boys
I think it's really important to depict complex, flawed LGBT characters, because we are all connected by our humanity.
~ Kit Williamson
Creativity has got to start with humanity.
~ Marilyn Monroe
Our problem is that when you lose the touchstone, which is humanity, then when you have something like humans dying, it needs to feel profound.
~ Caroline Dries
I don't care how good you are at it, but if you don't enjoy playing drums, you aren't in touch with a facet of your humanity. Really.
~ RJD2
Humanity connected is God.
~ Jim Gilliam
What we must learn to do is to create unbreakable bonds between the sciences and the humanities. We cannot procrastinate. The world of the future is in our making. Tomorrow is now.
~ Eleanor Roosevelt
I'm a human who is aware of the history of humanity and the ways in which the movies touch on those things.
~ Wesley Morris
There is something about hearing your president affirm your humanity that you don't know what effect it has until you hear it.
~ Andrew Sullivan
Compassion becomes an automatic reaction when you see all of humanity as one undivided and indivisible family.
~ Wayne Dyer
We can't separate our humanity from our poetry.
~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning
I'm the type of individual that I enjoy watching any different cultural lives, and I see the common humanity even though the hair textures are different or the skin tones are varied.
~ Angela Bassett
I believe in the absolute oneness of God and, therefore, also of humanity. I have always believed God to be without form. What I did hear was like a Voice from afar, and yet quite near.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
The study of foodways - the intersection of food and culture - addresses a central issue in the humanities: how we connect the great dramas of history with the lives of ordinary people.
~ Marcie Cohen Ferris
In the marketplace, small businesses are the face and voice of humanity, which provides them with a great advantage in the Age of the Customer.
~ Jim Blasingame
The outlaw is the radical, the one close to the roots of existence. The one who refuses to forget their humanity and, in remembering, helps everyone else remember, too.
~ David Whyte
Words are humanity's greatest natural resource, but most of us have trouble figuring out how to put them together. Words aren't cheap. They are very precious.
~ Katherine Paterson
There is no rain beyond the clouds; there is no humanity beyond the compassion!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
The network of enlightenment is a very wide network. It's not relegated to a simple type of being. It's not the network of the goody-goods.
~ Frederick Lenz
I would like, in my arbitrary way, to bring one nearer to the actual human being.
~ Francis Bacon
For me, with me, making a film is always about humanity.
~ Michael B. Jordan
We don't get to know people when they come to us; we must go to them to find out what they are like.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The French say that to part is to die a little. To be forgotten too is to die a little. It is to lose some of the links that anchor us to the rest of humanity.
~ Aung San Suu Kyi