Quotes about world

"If you are prepared to accept the consequences of your dreams then you must still regard America today with the same naive enthusiasm as the generations that discovered the New World."

Baudrillard, Jean on world   

"The pious ones of Plymouth who, reaching the Rock, first fell upon their own knees and then upon the aborigines."

Evarts, William M. on world   

"I am not belittling the brave pioneer men but the sunbonnet as well as the sombrero has helped to settle this glorious land of ours."

Ferber, Edna on world   

"The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognized it among their earliest practical necessities to allot a portion of the virgin soil as a cemetery, and another portion as the site of a prison."

Hawthorne, Nathaniel on world   

"Then hail! thou noble conqueror! That, when tyranny oppressed, hewed for our fathers from the wild. A land wherein to rest."

Hewitt, Mary Elizabeth on world   

"Christopher Columbus, as everyone knows, is honored by posterity because he was the last to discover America."

Joyce, James on world
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"Being human signifies, for each one of us, belonging to a class, a society, a country, a continent and a civilization; and for us European earth-dwellers, the adventure played out in the heart of the New World signifies in the first place that it was not our world and that we bear responsibility for the crime of its destruction."

Levi-Strauss, Claude on world   

"The American who first discovered Columbus made a bad discovery."

Lichtenberg, Georg C. on world   

"A new world is not made simply by trying to forget the old. A new world is made with a new spirit, with new values. Our world may have begun that way, but today it is caricature. Our world is a world of things. What we dread most, in the face of the impending debacle, is that we shall be obliged to give up our gewgaws, our gadgets, all the little comforts that have made us so uncomfortable. We are not peaceful souls; we are smug, timid, queasy and quaky."

Miller, Henry on world
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"The settlement of America had its origins in the unsettlement of Europe. America came into existence when the European was already so distant from the ancient ideas and ways of his birthplace that the whole span of the Atlantic did not widen the gulf."

Mumford, Lewis on world   

"Other nations have tried to check... the fulfillment of our manifest destiny to overspread the continent allotted by Providence for the free development of our yearly multiplying millions."

O'Sullivan, John Louis on world   

"Europe and the U.K. are yesterday's world. Tomorrow is in the United States."

Rowland, R. W. ''Tiny'' on world   

"I have, indeed, even omitted facts, which, on account of their singularity, must in the eyes of some have appeared to border on the marvelous. But in the forests of South America such extraordinary realities are to be found, that there is assuredly no need to have recourse to fiction or the least exaggeration."

Stedman, Captain J. G. on world   

"We must build a new world, a far better world -- one in which the eternal dignity of man is respected."

Truman, Harry S on world   

"The open frontier, the hardships of homesteading from scratch, the wealth of natural resources, the whole vast challenge of a continent waiting to be exploited, combined to produce a prevailing materialism and an American drive bent as much, if not more, on money, property, and power than was true of the Old World from which we had fled."

Tuchman, Barbara on world   

"For a transitory enchanted moment man must have held his breath in the presence of this continent, compelled into an aesthetic contemplation he neither understood nor desired, face to face for the last time in history with something commensurate to his capacity for wonder."

Fitzgerald, F. Scott on world   

"The next Augustan age will dawn on the other side of the Atlantic. There will, perhaps, be a Thucydides at Boston, a Xenophon at New York, and, in time, a Virgil at Mexico, and a Newton at Peru. At last, some curious traveler from Lima will visit England and give a description of the ruins of St Paul s, like the editions of Balbec and Palmyra."

Walpole, Horace on world   

"The Third World is not a reality but an ideology."

Arendt, Hannah on world   

"History is strewn with the wrecks of nations which have gained a little progressiveness at the cost of a great deal of hard manliness, and have thus prepared themselves for destruction as soon as the movements of the world gave a chance for it."

Bagehot, Walter on world   

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"Remember the rights of the savage, as we call him. Remember that the happiness of his humble home, remember that the sanctity of life in the hill villages of Afghanistan, among the winter snows, is as inviolable in the eye of Almighty God, as can be your own."

Gladstone, William E. on world   

"People in places many of us never heard of, whose names we can't pronounce or even spell, are speaking up for themselves. They speak in languages we once classified as exotic but whose mastery is now essential for our diplomats and businessmen. But what they say is very much the same the world over. They want a decent standard of living. They want human dignity and a voice in their own futures. They want their children to grow up strong and healthy and free."

Humphrey, Hubert H. on world   

"The great battleground for the defense and expansion of freedom today is the whole southern half of the globe... the lands of the rising peoples. Their revolution is the greatest in human history. They seek an end to injustice, tyranny and exploitation. More than an end, they seek a beginning."

Kennedy, John F. on world   

"To the United States the Third World often takes the form of a black woman who has been made pregnant in a moment of passion and who shows up one day in the reception room on the forty-ninth floor threatening to make a scene. The lawyers pay the woman off; sometimes uniformed guards accompany her to the elevators."

Lapham, Lewis H. on world   

"First there is a mountain, then there is no mountain, then there is."

Aphorism, Zen on world   

"The earth is the very quintessence of the human condition."

Arendt, Hannah on world   

"Until Eve arrived, this was a man's world."

Armour, Richard on world   

"The earth is the Lord s, and everything in it, the world, and all who live in it. [Psalms 24:1]"

Bible on world   

"I have been in love, and in debt, and in drink, this many and many a year."

Brome, Alexander on world   

"If this were a logical world, men would ride side saddle."

Brown, Rita Mae on world   

"He, in his developed manhood, stood, a little sunburn by the glare of life."

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett on world   

"The year's at the spring; And day's at the morn; Morning's at seven; The hill-side's dew-pearled; The lark's on the wing; The snail's on the thorn: God's in his heaven, All's right with the world!"

Browning, Robert on world   

"The world is not comprehensible, but it is embraceable: through the embracing of one of its beings."

Buber, Martin on world
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"After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say I WANT TO SEE THE MANAGER."

Burroughs, William S. on world   

"You do not reform a world by ignoring it."

Bush, George on world   

"What should I have known or written had I been a quiet, mercantile politician or a lord in waiting? A man must travel, and turmoil, or there is no existence."

Byron, Lord on world   

"The world is a living image of God."

Campanella, Tommaso on world   

"The world in which we were called to exist was an absurd world, and there was no other in which we could take refuge."

Camus, Albert on world
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"The world is governed by opinion."

Channing, William Ellery on world   

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"The world is a country which nobody ever yet knew by description; one must travel through it one's self to be acquainted with it."

Chesterfield, Lord on world   

"You're the best Mom in the whole, wide world!"

Cleaver, Beaver on world