Our Differences Quotes
135 quotes by 108 authors
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Our peaceful borders and our peaceful history are important symbols, to be sure. What they symbolize, however, is the spirit of respect and restraint which…
— Richard M. Nixon
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We have thought of peace as passive and war as the active way of living. The opposite is true. War is not the most strenuous…
— Mary Parker Follett
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Our world hangs like a magnificent jewel in the vastness of space. Every one of us is a part of that jewel. A facet of…
— Fred Rogers
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I know today that appreciating your own beauty does not come solely from therapy, make up application, or plastic surgery- although these things can help.…
— Laura Mercier
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We focus so much on our differences, and that is creating, I think, a lot of chaos and negativity and bullying in the world. And…
— Ellen DeGeneres
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We’re all misfits herefrom our weirdnesses and our differences, from our manic fixations, our obsessions, our passions. From all those wild and wacky things that…
— Terri Windling
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For too long, we have focused on our differences - in our politics and backgrounds, in our race and beliefs - rather than cherishing the…
— Bob Riley
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But all our differences hardly measure up to the values we all hold in common...
— Joe Biden
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Let’s not forget that American democracy started with ‘We the People’ agreeing to work hard to create ‘a more perfect union.’ We’ve lost the idea…
— Parker J. Palmer
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People frequently ask me why I devote so much time to seeking out facts about man’s past…the past shows clearly that we all have a…
— Louis Leakey
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I was raised Jewish, my wife was raised Catholic. Though we respect each other's heritage, and while many of our friends are deeply religious, we…
— Steven Levitan
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When the kirtan is harmonious with so many people, it’s a tumultuous beautiful sound. We can’t hear just one voice during the chorus; or rather…
— Radhanath Swami
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Peace is a never ending process... It cannot ignore our differences or overlook our common interests. It requires us to work and live together.
— Oscar Arias
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...We're people and we're different, all of us. And we should be using our differences to bring ourselves closer together. You know? Not be afraid…
— Justin Timberlake
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Maybe I couldn't be dafter, But I keep wondering if this time we settle our differences before a war instead of after.
— Ogden Nash
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In the end we are all separate: our stories, no matter how similar, come to a fork and diverge. We are drawn to each other…
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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The calm and tolerant atmosphere that prevailed during the elections depicts the type of South Africa we can build. It set the tone for the…
— Nelson Mandela
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It is in seeing ourselves whole that we can begin to see ways of working out our differences, of understanding our similarities and of finally…
— Robert C. Maynard
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With so many scientific achievements we know so little of where we came from and where we are going. But we know even less of…
— Akiane Kramarik
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There is no age barrier when it comes to Christlike service. … As we look beyond our differences in age, culture, and circumstance to nurture…
— Bonnie L. Oscarson
Who Wrote These Our Differences Quotes
108 authors contributed a total of 135 Our Differences Quotes, led by these top contributors: