Trevor Noah Quotes

The best American is one who considers themselves as a citizen of the world.

The City of Angels is a microcosm of the world, and so living in L.A. makes me feel like a citizen of the world.

Asked where he came from, he said, "I am a citizen of the world."

I was born in Belgium. I went to school in England and in Switzerland, then I came to America, so I really feel like I am a citizen of the 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 am as much a citizen of the world as I am of my country.

I am, I flatter myself, completely a citizen of the world. In my travels through Holland, Germany, Switzerland, Italy, Corsica, France, I never felt myself from home.

Socrates, indeed, when he was asked of what country he called himself, said, "Of the world"; for he considered himself an inhabitant and a citizen of the whole world.

I think Americans suffer for their lack of travel, awareness of the world. It has horribly warped our sense of place in the scheme of things.

Americans ought to be the best-traveled, most cosmopolitan people on earth, not only because experience of the world is desirable in its own right, but because as a people acquires a great concentration of power, worldliness becomes a moral imperative.

I am a citizen of the world, known to all and to all a stranger.

By travelling across frontiers, on horseback and in the imagination, Montaigne invited us to to exchange local prejudices and the self division they induced for less constraining identities as citizens of the world.

I think I'm a global citizen. My parents came from China, were educated in France and emigrated to the United States. And I think that opened up my mind to be able to live and work anywhere.

I'm free to see things objectively because I don't consider myself American, and I don't consider myself British or Indian. I'm kind of an amalgam or mongrel of a lot of different places and experiences. In a lot of ways it's been a good thing for me. It's enabled me to do what I do on 'The Daily Show.'

I consider myself to be a citizen of the world.

Asked from what country he came, Diogenes the Cynic replied, "I am a citizen of the world.

We are on the cusp of this time where I can say, "I speak as a citizen of the world" without others saying, "God, what a nut.

A wise man’s country is the world.

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.

Socrates said he was not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world.

I think of myself as a global citizen.

I am a citizen, not of Athens, or Greece, but of the world.

In kindergarten, you can learn how to be a citizen of the world.

America is not the center of the universe.