Parochialism And Ethnocentrism Quotes & Sayings

Even to see her walk across the room is a liberal education. — C.S. Lewis

The Arts are pure. It's people that are corrupt. — Tim Easley

Two thousand years after Jesus lived here, Christians still have a hard time accepting his upside-down world, in which we are expected to work for justice on behalf of others but not to demand or expect it for ourselves (Matthew 5:6,10-12). This is one of the hardest challenges of Jesus' message. It demands an expanded heart and mind. — Richard Rohr

San Antonio is the patron saint of things that have gone missing. — Jodi Picoult

In 1907, Britain and Russia signed a treaty dividing Iran between them; no Iranian was at the negotiations or even knew they were taking place. — Stephen Kinzer

The day will come when you need them to respect you, even fear you a little. Laughter is poison to fear. — George R R Martin

I'm normally not at a loss of words but I am a little taken aback by what you're wearing; it's a little different. — Joe Teti

We are lazier in our minds than in our bodies. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

I wrote one book, signed with a good agent, and sat back and waited for the phone to ring. I was sure that the great news would come at any moment. Four books later, I finally got that call. — Deb Caletti

I am quite prepared to die here [in NY]. It doesn't matter at all. I don't know better places, or perhaps if I do I am not prepared to make a move. — Joseph Brodsky

Every three seconds in the developing world, a child dies needlessly due to lack of basic health care and other things we all take for granted. — Claire Danes

If we move in mass, be it ever so circuitously, we shall attain our object; but if we break into squads, everyone pursuing the path he thinks most direct, we become an easy conquest to those who can now barely hold us in check. — Thomas Jefferson

Man ever talks, and Man ever dreams Of better days that are yet to be, After glittering goal, that distant gleams, Running and racing untiringly. The worldly may grow old and young as it will, But the Hope of man is Improvement still. Hope bears him into life in her arms, She flutters around the boy's young bloom, The soul of youth with her magic warms, Nor rests with age in the silent tomb; For ends man his weary course at the grave, There plants he Hope o'er his ashes to wave. — Friedrich Schiller

I know virtually no one of my age who can remember a hug, or a smile from their father, or a 'Let's go play football.' — Peter Mullan