Globe Quotes
474 quotes by 393 authors
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Man is a Religious Animal. He is the only Religious Animal. He is the only animal that has the True Religion--several of them. He is…
— Mark Twain
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It wasn't so long ago when all the so-called scientists said that humans were intelligent and that animals weren't, humans were the solitary unchallenged masters…
— Robin McKinley
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Inside the snow globe on my father's desk, there was a penguin wearing a red-and-white-striped scarf. When I was little my father would pull me…
— Alice Sebold
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He was endowed with a stupidity which by the least little stretch would go around the globe four times and tie.
— Mark Twain
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There is a moon shaped rictus in the streetlamp's globe where a stone has gone and from this aperture there drifts down through the constant…
— Cormac McCarthy
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I can imagine nothing more terrifying than an Eternity filled with men who were all the same. The only thing which has made life bearable…has…
— T.H. White
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To the Muslim world, we seek a new way forward, based on mutual interest and mutual respect. To those leaders around the globe who seek…
— Barack Obama
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To those leaders around the globe who seek to sow conflict, or blame their society's ills on the West - know that your people will…
— Barack Obama
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...it was the arts, those noble expressions of the human spirit that are communicated through literature, dance, song, film, drama, painting and sculpture, among the…
— Bill Cosby
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When the Lilliputians first saw Gulliver's watch, that "wonderful kind of engine...a globe, half silver and half of some transparent metal," they identified it immediately…
— James Gleick
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Savages!' he echoed, ironically. 'You set foot on one of the shores of this globe, professor, and you’re surprised to find savages? Where aren’t there…
— Jules Verne
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At one time I say to myself: "Surely not! The little prince shuts his flower under her glass globe every night, and he watches over…
— Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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A lack of affiliation may mean a lack of accountability, and forming a sense of commitment can be hard without a sense of community. Displacement…
— Pico Iyer
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No one expects the rug to be yanked out from underneath them; life-changing events usually don’t announce themselves. While instinct and intuition can help provide…
— Slash
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I'm Min's fairy godmother, Charm Boy,' Liza said, frowning down at him. 'And if you don't give her a happily ever after, I'm going to…
— Jennifer Crusie
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To those peoples in the huts and villages of half the globe struggling to break the bonds of mass misery, we pledge our best efforts…
— John F. Kennedy
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I trembled to think of a world without stars. No guide for the sailor to trust at see, no jewels to dazzle our sense of…
— Michael Jackson
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He was wise enough to know that nothing ever happened on this globe, for good, at which some people did not have their fill of…
— Charles Dickens
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You mortals are like fish swimming in a globe of glass. That globe is your world. You do not see beyond it.
— Tamora Pierce
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It felt as though the whole globe was dressed in snow. Like it has pulled it on, the way you pull on a sweater. Next…
— Markus Zusak
Who Wrote These Globe Quotes
393 authors contributed a total of 474 Globe Quotes, led by these top contributors: