History Channel Quotes

My perspective is cultural and world-based. It's always been a global perspective.

The ability to mingle with so many countries and cultures is extremely valuable for men and women.

I believe being a true Global Citizen means you have the willingness and openness to step outside of your own boundaries, and I'm honored to represent that with TUMI.

Our leaders increasingly see fit to lecture the ethnic minorities on the need to integrate, including of course the need to speak English. What about the need, though, for Britain to integrate with the rest of the world?

I always used to say hybrids would rule the world - people who have an understanding of many cultures and can relate to them with ease. And then along came Obama.

I am very happy since when I am in different cities I can experience and learn different cultures!

I just started taking Mandarin classes. I love the idea of globalization: of being able to work in different countries.

I spoke Spanish when I was three, and then Maltese. I love dictionaries. I like foreigners. My dad moved every year before I was 14, and I learnt to like abroad. I'm not scared of change.

Genuine cosmopolitanism is a rare thing. It requires comfort with real difference, with forms of life that are truly exotic relative to one's own.

The experience of travelling, getting familiar with other languages, other cultures definitely helps. It makes you a better person.

Learn all you can about people in other parts of the world. Understanding how people in other countries live and work and play teaches us to respect them and promote peace everywhere.

Travelers learn not just foreign customs and curious cuisines and unfamiliar beliefs and novel forms of government. They learn, if they are lucky, humility.

England is very interested as well, and other countries if I could speak the languages!

I want our students to be so accustomed to children of other cultures that the words 'diversity' and 'tolerance' won't be in their vocabulary. They won't need them - they'll live it.

Without translation, I would be limited to the borders of my own country. The translator is my most important ally. He introduces me to the world.

I wanted to introduce a contemporary Asia to a North American audience.

I've never been in any country for more than four years, and I'm learning different languages all the time. It gives you a different attitude.

I love commuting between languages just like I love commuting between cultures and cities.

Globalization means we have to re-examine some of our ideas, and look at ideas from other countries, from other cultures, and open ourselves to them. And that's not comfortable for the average person.

I feel that there are a few things in the world without cultural barriers.

Those who visit foreign nations, but associate only with their own country-men, change their climate, but not their customs. They see new meridians, but the same men; and with heads as empty as their pockets, return home with traveled bodies, but untravelled minds.

In our interconnected world, we must learn to feel enlarged, not threatened, by difference - that is what I have argued.

I have no idea what it would be like to be just one thing and speak one language. I feel enormously privileged to travel and be able to mingle and speak to people that, had I only known English, I wouldn't have been able to meet.

I've got tremendous respect for different cultures, for the food and everything.

People come from around the world and can understand each other without even speaking the same languages!