Athens is a great place for me. It is my second home. It's where I won my first world championship medal, it's… — Maurice Greene Copy Share Image
Having so many close calls in my career, it was such an awesome feeling to get that first world title. — Joel Parkinson Copy Share Image
My dad was a big admirer of Sergeant York stories from the First World War. — Clint Eastwood Copy Share Image
Up until the First World War, when people turned anti-German, Germany had been described by American political scientists as the model of… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Benefitting from a job bubble is not only a first world problem, it's an upper-class-educated-lucky-to-be-in-the-right-industry-at-the-right-time kind of first world problem. — Sarah Lacy Copy Share Image
As the First World War made painfully clear, when politicians and generals lead nations into war, they almost invariably assume swift victory,… — Adam Hochschild Copy Share Image
“First, people should open their eyes to see structural sin, which is the very existence of a First and Third World. As… — Mev Puleo Copy Share Image
“How can you measure progress if you don't know what it costs and who has paid for it? How can the "market"… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
Of course, Third World leaders love you. By ascribing third world ills to First World sins, you absolve them of blame for… — John McCarthy Copy Share Image
Pesticides came about after the first world war. Some brainy petrochemical money maker said, 'Hey, that mustard gas worked great on people,… — Woody Harrelson Copy Share Image
The French suffered such catastrophic losses in the First World War. It really was the end of them as a great world… — Edward Herrmann Copy Share Image
The period after the First World War was an extremely different time, so that Sherlock Holmes would have been a different person… — Laurie R. King Copy Share Image
I was born in Jamaica but was educated by, and now serve, prestigious First World institutions, so I believe that I have… — Peter Blair Henry Copy Share Image
At the age of nine, I could cross the length of Glasgow on a succession of buses, wearing regulation garter-topped stockings and… — Ronald Frame Copy Share Image
Mehmet Ertegun died in 1944. President Roosevelt sent his body back to Turkey on the U.S.S. Missouri. Mehmet Ertegun and President Roosevelt… — George W. S. Trow Copy Share Image
I think growing up in South Africa, and then moving to Canada, I'm just genuinely interested in the difference between the First… — Neill Blomkamp Copy Share Image
“The U.S. will never be a free and happy nation while they continue to exploit and marginalize the Third World. The Third… — Mev Puleo Copy Share Image
It wasn't until '79 I won my first amateur championship, and then, by '81, I was 14, and I won my first… — Rodney Mullen Copy Share Image
We're living through a time where we are fighting wars fostered by politics, admittedly not on the same scale as the First… — Benedict Cumberbatch Copy Share Image
Why do other first world countries give children so many fewer vaccines than we do? Vaccines save lives, but might be harming… — Jenny McCarthy Copy Share Image
“My first world is humanity. My second world is humanism. And, I live in the third world being merely a human.” — Santosh Kalwar Copy Share Image
My parents leaving a third world country to a first world country and building from nothing - that's really inspiring to me… — Melanie Fiona Copy Share Image
“Just like how most if not all poor boys look up to and aspire to someday be rich men, most if not… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
The idea of progress - the notion that human history is the history of human betterment - dominated the world view of… — Jill Lepore Copy Share Image
The reality is that most of North America knows next to nothing of the 20th century's first genocide - the systematic slaughter… — Chris Bohjalian Copy Share Image
If you look back at the history of creativity in clothes - the French Revolution, the First World War and the Second… — Christian Lacroix Copy Share Image
The west has a great deal to answer for in the Middle East, from Britain's belated empire-building after the First World War… — James Buchan Copy Share Image
In my final year at Bristol University, I wrote a play called 'White Feathers.' It was produced in the studio theatre at… — Laura Wade Copy Share Image
We are constantly trying to cope with what our fathers or our grandfathers did. I wrote the book 'Great War of Civilization,'… — Robert Fisk Copy Share Image
School-leavers unfortunately will come away thinking the First World War consisted simply of 'going over the top' on the Western Front to… — Antony Beevor Copy Share Image
The country is too often assumed to be a backward place: The First World has trouble remembering that Haitians were two centuries… — Madison Smartt Bell Copy Share Image
Between 2001 and 2011, Brazil lifted 20 million people out of poverty and into its growing middle class, and in the last… — Peter Blair Henry Copy Share Image
As the CIA tried to find itself, the threat of international terrorism emanating from the Middle East, Africa, North Africa and Central… — Michael Hastings Copy Share Image
“While the opportunity to improve yourself and your situation is a great thing, our striving to build perfect lives seems to have… — Holly Sprink Copy Share Image
