Sophie Gregoire Trudeau Quotes

Our skin colours may vary, but what's upstairs - there's certain things we've all got in common.

Governments are different, and philosophies are different, but when it comes down to it, a schoolteacher is a schoolteacher is a schoolteacher. A butcher is a butcher is a butcher. We are people. And we are far more common than we ever imagine.

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.

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.

No man is an Island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main.

But we Americans are as other men, exactly. Of one blood, one species, one brain, one figure, one fundamental set of collective instincts, one solitary body of information, one everything. Superiority and inferiority are individual, not racial or national.

It's probably cliche to say this, but in my experience, people are far more alike than they are dissimilar.

The world is not such a large place, and we have more in common with one another than we might think.

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.

I like it that in many ways we are all the same.

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

Every group has its idiosyncrasies, but at a certain point we all are human.

There are those moments when you shake someone's hand, have a conversation with someone, and suddenly your all bound together because you share your humanity in one simple moment.

One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.

We need to understand that whatever we do, we're all human beings first.

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.

I've learnt that the world over, everyone's essentially the same. We are all trying to have a nice time and get along with things.

An anthropologist will not excitedly report of a newly discovered tribe: 'They eat food! They breathe air! They use tools! They tell each other stories!' We humans forget how alike we are, living in a world that only reminds us of our differences.

Underneath all the skin, we're all the same.

It makes you realise that people are the same wherever you go.

Vast sections of the world's population are inspired by the same desires and live for common interests that bind them together far more than they separate them.

We have a stake in one another ... what binds us together is greater than what drives us apart