Globe Quotes
474 quotes by 384 authors
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Measured in time of transport and communication, the whole round globe is now smaller than a small European country was a hundred years ago.
— John Boyd Orr
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When my dad founded our church, he used either a globe or a map of the world behind him. It was symbolic of what Christ…
— Joel Osteen
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While women across the globe have many differences - language, culture, environment - our similarities are undeniable, and the impact of abuse and oppression affects…
— Carre Otis
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It's OK to sit in the Golden Globe room and look around and think, 'Oh, Helen Mirren's a loser tonight, so is Nicole Kidman. Meryl…
— Sarah Paulson
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This world was not created piecemeal. Africa was born no later and no earlier than any other geographical area on this globe. Africans, no more…
— Haile Selassie
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On this shrunken globe, men can no longer live as strangers.
— Adlai E. Stevenson
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We have altered the physical, chemical and biological properties of the planet on a geological scale. We have left no part of the globe untouched.
— David Suzuki
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The race for the White House is normally an event suffused with drama, sucking eyeballs to the page all over the globe.
— Matt Taibbi
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Using the power you derive from the discovery of the truth about racism in South Africa, you will help us to remake our part of…
— Oliver Tambo
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The sea is everything. It covers seven tenths of the terrestrial globe. Its breath is pure and healthy. It is an immense desert, where man…
— Jules Verne
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Today, if you look at financial systems around the globe, more than half the population of the world - out of six billion people, more…
— Muhammad Yunus
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Who doesn't know about Bollywood? After all, we churn out movies in such great quantities every year! People across the globe know Shekhar Kapur.
— Arjun Rampal
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Its not a global village, but we're in a highly interconnected globe.
— Howard Rheingold
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Our revels now are ended. These our actors, As I foretold you, were all spirits and Are melted into air, into thin air: And, like…
— William Shakespeare
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All my life one of my greatest desires has been to travel-to see and touch unknown countries, to swim in unknown seas, to circle the…
— Nikos Kazantzakis
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Let us again pretend that life is a solid substance, shaped like a globe, which we turn about in our fingers. Let us pretend that…
— Virginia Woolf
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Colorful demonstrations and weekend marches are vital but alone are not powerful enough to stop wars. Wars will be stopped only when soldiers refuse to…
— Arundhati Roy
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The place is good. How good, one must have circumnavigated the globe to discover. Why not stay? Take root? But roots are chains. I have…
— Aldous Huxley
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And I despise your books, I despise wisdom and the blessings of this world. It is all worthless, fleeting, illusory, and deceptive, like a mirage.…
— Anton Chekhov
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I really beleive that if the political leaders of the world could see their planet from a distance of, let's say 100,000 miles, their outlook…
— Michael Collins
Who Wrote These Globe Quotes
384 authors contributed a total of 474 Globe Quotes, led by these top contributors: