Diversity Celebrations Quotes & Sayings

For me, religious festivals and celebrations have become an important way to teach my children about how we can transform living with diversity from the superficial 'I eat ethnic food', to something dignified, mutually respectful and worthwhile. — Randa Abdel-Fattah

Stars, of course, are too hot to support life, so wherever life might exist in the universe, it has to be on planets or moons that are warmed, but not incinerated, by the stars they travel around. — Thomas Mallon

Although I have lived through much darkness, I have seen enough evidence to be unshakably convinced that no difficulty, no fear is so great that it can completely suffocate the hope that springs eternal in the hearts of the young ... Do not let that hope die! Stake your lives on it! We are not the sum of our weaknesses and failures; we are the sum of the Father's love for us and our real capacity to become the image of his Son. — Pope John Paul II

The power which has always started the greatest religious and political avalanches in history rolling has from time immemorial been the magic power of the spoken word, and that alone. The broad masses of the people can be moved only by the power of speech. — William L. Shirer

Tell me something in your native woodland language. — Marta Acosta

Stupidity is sufficient unto itself. Wisdom can never learn enough. — Mechthild Of Magdeburg

Ah, Nastenka! Why, one thanks some people for being alive at the same time with one; I thank you for having met me, for my being able to remember you all my life! — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

It is an invention of the devil, an infernal falsity for the destruction of all Christianity. — Michael Servetus

Your heart's desire is to be told some mystery. The mystery is that there is no mystery. — Cormac McCarthy

After four hundred years of betrayals and excuses, Indians recognize the new fashion in racism, which is to pretend that the real Indians are all gone. — Peter Matthiessen

The more you know, the less you need. - YVON CHOUINARD — Scott Jurek

I am a border-ruffian from the State of Missouri. I am a Connecticut Yankee by adoption. In me, you have Missouri morals, Connecticut culture; this, gentlemen, is the combination which makes the perfect man. — Mark Twain