E. W. Howe Quotes

I'm no different than you.

The uniform makes for brotherhood, since when universally adopted it covers up all differences of class and country.

I learned at Yale, one of the biggest lessons was to learn how special I am and therefore how totally unspecial I am. I was special among everyone else who was special. The fact that we're all so individual and that's what makes us special.

The common people are more disposed to trust one of their own class [in political office] than those who may efect to be superior.

The distinctions between Virginians, Pennsylvanians, New Yorkers and New Englanders are no more. I am not a Virginian; I am an American.... All distinctions are thrown down; all America is one mass.

There is only one class in the state, the Volk, (the people), and the king belongs to this class as well as the peasant

I have been brought up amongst the Irish people. I was reared in a laborers cottage here in Ireland. I have not lived soley amongst the intellectuals—whever I wanted to know what the Irish people wanted, I had only to examine my own heart and it told me straight away what the Irish people wanted.

Americans know that we have more in common than we do differences.

I'm no different to other working class players.

Nobody wants to be called common people, especially common people.

While we celebrate our diversity, what surprises me time and time again as I travel around the constituency is that we are far more united and have far more in common with each other than things that divide us.

I want the fans to know that just because we have a microphone; we're no different from you.

I had worked on the markets with my father before going to university, so I possessed an apparent street-smartness, had access to a colourful costermonger vocabulary, and tried passing myself off as a bit of spiv. But my contemporaries saw through me. At heart, they knew I was as bookish and oversensitive as they were.

We are all human beings. We all have the same blood in our veins.

I'm a human being just like everybody else.

The world has only one border. It is called humanity. The differences between us are small compared to our shared humanity. Put humans first.

It doesn't matter what you believe in or where you're from. It doesn't matter what group you're in: we're all the same. We all end up in the same-sized box.

I'm human just like everyone.

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.

At the end of the day, we are all humans.

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

Being an outsider is the one thing we all have in common.

It is the ordinariness of us that is the same in all of us.

There isn't any me. I'm you. Don't make up a separate me.