George Santayana Quotes

Traveling in Europe made me understand that America has an island mentality: No one exists except us. There's a whole other world out there, but most Americans - all they know is America, the marketing plan.

North Americans don't understand... that our country is not just Cuba; our country is also humanity.

We don't see the global citizen as someone with no identity, but rather someone who has confidence and is proud of his culture and history - and... open to the modern world.

I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world.

I wanted to be a citizen of the world but not in a superficial way.

I have always thought that being a good American is appreciating the world, not just your own country.

I was born in France, but I would have been happy to have been born in Senegal or in Romania or Japan. I don't care. This planet is both so small and so big, but I'm part of it.

I absolutely do believe that we need to not be so myopic. We ought to throw open widely the windows on the world in order to learn more about it.

My parents always instilled in me to be a citizen of the world, so that's why I've taken to traveling and why it's such a huge part of my life.

Nationalism is cured by traveling.

You should be a person inside the world with knowledge of your terrain. And if you lock yourself into the 2,000-by-3,000-square-mile, lower-48 box of the United States, you're going to be frustrated by its limitations. You gotta think outside the box.

I grew up in Africa surrounded by a lot of culture. It's made me aware that the world is a big place.

The more places I go to, the more I realize I understand so little about the world.

America is not the center of the universe.

I was the most Australian child ever in the world, even though my home was in Africa.

I am a citizen of the world, and also a citizen of Ukraine.

I think I'm more European in personality.

I really don't feel any strong allegiance to any country.

I think my kids are pretty well-rounded citizens of the world.

A good man, though he will value his own countrymen, yet will think as highly of the worthy men of every nation under the sun.

I can get on with all different sorts of people, and I never feel homesick, particularly, or I've never felt kind of patriotic towards any one country.

Over the summer I thought that I would seek out non-Americans as friends, just for diversity's sake. Now I find that I want to be around Americans - people who I know are thinking about our country as much as I am.

I'm 'of the world'.

I think it's important to look at the world as a bigger place than just the bubble that we live in. It's so easy to get caught up in things of a trivial nature.

Great artists have no fatherland.