Famous Quotes & Sayings

We lived through that, and it made people stronger as a community. It helped draw them together. In fact, they're stronger than we've ever been. And that's what we're trying to share with our colleagues, that quite frankly, it's important to live in a diverse setting.

Drew Sidora

'Boomerang!' I love that movie just because of Halle Berry, Robin Givens, Eddie Murphy, Grace Jones and Eartha Kitt. There were so many characters. As an actress, to see African-American actors be so diverse was different from what I was used to seeing.

We feel now that it's as nice as any place in town for any type of show. We want to expand the programming to include more diverse music.

We want to do something to promote diversity on campus.

Thicket by thicket and wetland by wetland, we were losing the Greater Golden Horseshoe's remaining wilderness and diversity of life. The greenbelt is stopping the loss of natural features and the species they host.

Thomas Harris

The way, I think, to make that happen is for the (Oktoberfest) leadership team to invite groups and people into the planning. (They'd) open the door to people from those diverse backgrounds.

These are the perfect places to expand because you can tap into diverse talent at each of these sites. Here in Washington, we're very excited that we're participating in Amgen's growth.

Bill Richardson

There will be some of that -- obviously -- because you've got a lot of speakers, diverse speakers -- you've got all of the wings of the party here.

We just had some really great races. Our divers did a really nice job on the board.

We will not be able to function as competitively in the worldwide economy if we are not a diverse legal team. It's not optional in my view.

The threats we face are more diverse than ever.

Meher Baba

...the more a person becomes spiritually minded or advances towards God, the more tolerant he becomes and the less differentiation he sees.

Pope Francis

Whenever people listen to one another humbly and openly, their shared values and aspirations become all the more apparent. Diversity is no longer seen as a threat, but as a source of enrichment.

Rabindranath Tagore

If God had so wished, he could have made all Indians speak one language... the unity of India has been and shall always be a unity in diversity.

Pierre Bayle

It is thus tolerance that is the source of peace, and intolerance that is the source of disorder and squabbling.

Phillip E. Johnson

First, Darwinian theory tells us how a certain amount of diversity in life forms can develop once we have various types of complex living organisms already in existence.

Pope Benedict XVI

Dialogue is the fundamental unfolding of a gift of oneself to another.

Victor Hugo

Toleration is the best religion.

Thomas Sowell

Whenever someone refers to me as someone "who happens to be black," I wonder if they realize that both my parents are black. If I had turned out to be Scandinavian or Chinese, people would have wondered what was going on.

Thomas Sowell

The next time some academics tell you how important diversity is, ask how many Republicans there are in their sociology department.

Robert Kennedy

Each nation has different obstacles and different goals, shaped by the vagaries of history and of experience. Yet as I talk to young people around the world I am impressed not by the diversity but by the closeness of their goals, their desires and their concerns and their hope for the future.

Roger Scruton

States are more like people than they are like anything else: they exist by purpose, reason, suffering, and joy. And peace between states is also like peace between people. It involves the willing renunciation of purpose, in the mutual desire not to do, but to be.

Richard M. Nixon

For among nations - as within nations - the soundest unity is that which respects diversity, and the strongest cohesion is that which rejects coercion.

Vandana Shiva

Diversity creates harmony, and harmony creates beauty, balance, bounty and peace in nature and society, in agriculture and culture, in science and in politics.

Richard Dawkins

I am not an enthusiast for diversity of opinion where facts are concerned.

Samuel Johnson

The joy of life is variety; the tenderest love requires to be rekindled by intervals of absence.

Wangari Maathai

We are called to assist the Earth to heal her wounds and in the process heal our own – indeed, to embrace the whole creation in all its diversity, beauty and wonder. This will happen if we see the need to revive our sense of belonging to a larger family of life, with which we have shared our evolutionary process.

Tony Shalhoub

My only preference is to have a lot of variety and diversity in the material that I work on.

Van Jones

In addition, black folks need to attend green conferences, too. We just self-segregate and don't go. They might even waive your fee if you apply on a diversity basis, because they'd be so shocked to see somebody from a different background wanting to be a part of the green movement.

U Thant

The concept of peaceful coexistence has been criticized by many who do not see the need to make the world safe for diversity. I wonder if they have ever paused to ask themselves the question: What is the alternative to coexistence?

William Golding

For a small island [Great Britain], the place is remarkably diverse.

Sonia Sotomayor

The dynamism of any diverse community depends not only on the diversity itself but on promoting a sense of belonging among those who formerly would have been considered and felt themselves outsiders.

Tim Berners-Lee

We need diversity of thought in the world to face the new challenges.