World Quotes

We live in a world where equality is pretty important.

~ John Key

Together, we can build the kind of world in which we all seek to live, one of universal equality and justice.

~ Lynn Schusterman

The American economic, political, and social organization has given to its citizens the benefits of material prosperity, political liberty, and a wholesome natural equality; and this achievement is a gain, not only to Americans, but to the world and to civilization.

~ Herbert Croly

The fact is that democracy anywhere in the world, including in the United States, is not something that comes easy. And yet, we are committed to it, and equality and democracy are the only ways in the long run that Jews will be safe in the Middle East.

~ Ian Lustick

I'm trying to create the world around myself to be a place of as much equality and openheartedness as possible.

~ Robin Thicke

When I was in college, I wanted to be involved in things that would change the world.

~ Elon Musk

Adolescents are not monsters. They are just people trying to learn how to make it among the adults in the world, who are probably not so sure themselves.

~ Virginia Satir

To an adolescent, there is nothing in the world more embarrassing than a parent.

~ Dave Barry

When I was a teenager I would lock myself in the bathroom for hours, bouffanting my hair like Patty Duke and trying to recreate Barbra Streisand's flawless eyeliner, only to comb it all out and wash it all off before stepping out into the world a butchish bisexual teen.

~ Beth Ditto

I won Miss Teen World, and then a movie rep saw me on the pageant website and thought that I had the perfect image for the role in 'Madrasapattinam.'

~ Amy Jackson

That can be the most painstaking aspect of being a teen, figuring out what the world really looks like. If you find someone in a book, you know you're not alone and that's what's so comforting about books.

~ Laurie Halse Anderson

Even when I was a teen model, I didn't think it was fair that I had to enter the acting world to get insurance.

~ Tyra Banks

When I started out as a music journalist, at the end of the 1980s, it was generally assumed that we were living through the lamest music era the world would ever see. But those were also the years when hip-hop exploded, beatbox disco soared, indie rock took off, and new wave invented a language of teen angst.

~ Rob Sheffield

The Teen Challenge Training Center on Pennsylvania farmland houses over 200 men in rehab. Other farms and centers have been birthed out of this ministry all over the world.

~ David Wilkerson

If I can write a book that will help the world make a little more sense to a teen, then that's why I was put on the planet.

~ Laurie Halse Anderson

Robin McKinley's 'The Blue Sword' was a defining book of my teen years, and I'd love to have more books like that in the world.

~ Carrie Vaughn

In the Top 40, half the songs are secret messages to the teen world to drop out, turn on, and groove with the chemicals and light shows at discotheques.

~ Art Linkletter

Being a teen is past for me. Worrying about the world and my place in it is not.

~ Ally Condie

A departure from the movie with Michael J. Fox, 'Teen Wolf' tells the story of how a group of angsty teens deal with werewolves, their supernatural kin and the world of trouble that comes with it, all while trying to still live their lives.

~ Keahu Kahuanui

There's an indie movie I did called 'Fat Kid Rules the World,' which was based on a teen book, and it's a fabulous story, and hopefully it'll go to theaters because it is an amazing story.

~ Lili Simmons

Music is one of the most powerful things the world has to offer. No matter what race or religion or nationality or sexual orientation or gender that you are, it has the power to unite us.

~ Lady Gaga

The world is full of poetry. The air is living with its spirit; and the waves dance to the music of its melodies, and sparkle in its brightness.

~ James Gates Percival

Music is life itself. What would this world be without good music? No matter what kind it is.

~ Louis Armstrong

That's the amazing thing about music: there's a song for every emotion. Can you imagine a world with no music? It would suck.

~ Harry Styles

Music doesn't lie. If there is something to be changed in this world, then it can only happen through music.

~ Jimi Hendrix

Each year, every city in the world that can should have a multiday festival. More people meeting each other, digging new types of music, new foods, new ideas. You want to stop having so many wars? This could be a step in the right direction.

~ Henry Rollins

Those who decide to use leisure as a means of mental development, who love good music, good books, good pictures, good plays, good company, good conversation - what are they? They are the happiest people in the world.

~ William Lyon Phelps

Being in Blur has allowed me to travel and hear the music that's being made all over the world.

~ Damon Albarn

The spiral in a snail's shell is the same mathematically as the spiral in the Milky Way galaxy, and it's also the same mathematically as the spirals in our DNA. It's the same ratio that you'll find in very basic music that transcends cultures all over the world.

~ Joseph Gordon-Levitt

I write while listening to music, mostly because the world beyond my headphones is too chaotic.

~ Dean Bakopoulos

Bluegrass has brought more people together and made more friends than any music in the world. You meet people at festivals and renew acquaintances year after year.

~ Bill Monroe

Things can be really empty in this world, and I don't just mean the music world. It can become a very meaningless place if you don't really understand: 'who am I? Why am I here? What am I doing?' To feel fulfilment and have a deeper level of understanding, personally, that is the most important thing.

~ Alicia Keys

Just when you think we're living in a little bit of a divided world, music brings us together.

~ Luis Fonsi

If you look at music, you see theme, variation, you see symmetry, asymmetry, you see structure, and these are related to skills in the real world.

~ Dave Van Ronk

This land is your land and this land is my land, sure, but the world is run by those that never listen to music anyway.

~ Bob Dylan

Music has always been my protection against the world, from a very young age. I feel safe inside of a jam.

~ Trey Anastasio

I'm inspired by artists and musicians. There are so many wonderful and talented people in the world. I love discovering new music, new writers, or new art.

~ Alicia Keys

Our world is enriched when coders and marketers dazzle us with smartphones and tablets, but, by themselves, they are just slabs. It is the music, essays, entertainment and provocations that they access, spawned by the humanities, that animate them - and us.

~ Nicholas Kristof

I dare suggest that the composer would do himself and his music an immediate and eventual service by total, resolute and voluntary withdrawal from this public world to one of private performance and electronic media.

~ Milton Babbitt

There's so much beautiful music in the world, and the kids are getting robbed.

~ Billy Higgins