Anne McClain Quotes

We should always be looking for the unity in things instead of the differences.

I'm no different than you.

I think people are universal.

We are all quick to point out all the differences but not as willing to accept what bonds us as humans.

It's difficult to have any animosity towards someone if you recognize that on so many levels they're exactly the same as you.

We go on and on about our differences. But, you know, our differences are less important than our similarities. People have a lot in common with one another, whether they see that or not.

All differences in this world are of degree, and not of kind, because oneness is the secret of everything.

I feel we are all islands - in a common sea.

I am in no way different from anyone else, that my predicament, my sense of aloneness or isolation may be precisely what unites me with everyone.

I think we're all more alike than we want to believe sometimes.

The differences that separate human beings are nothing compared to the similarities that bond us together.

I think my mission, if I could call it that, as a storyteller is to try and find ways to show how similar we are and not how different we are.

There's a universal inside of me. So if I tell my story, you're going to see parts of your story in it. I don't know which parts, but we all overlap. We're all very much alike.

The one thing we all have in common is that we're human. Why pay more attention to the things that make us different over the things that bring us together?

Those are the same stars, and that is the same moon, that look down upon your brothers and sisters, and which they see as they look up to them, though they are ever so far away from us, and each other.

All great artists draw from the same resource: the human heart, which tells us that we are all more alike than we are unalike.

I tend to see the similarities in people and not the differences.

All of us are much more human than otherwise.

Life is lived in common, but not in community.

One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.

You know, we have our differences, everybody does, honest, real differences, but I do believe strongly that we as neighbors are drawn together far more than we're driven apart.

We are all one. We're not as separate as we oftentimes think.

Ye are the fruits of one tree and the leaves of one branch.

No one is ever really a stranger. We cling to the belief that we share nothing with certain people. It's rubbish. We have almost everything in common with everyone.

The sky was clear - remarkably clear - and the twinkling of all the stars seemed to be but throbs of one body, timed by a common pulse.