- Champion
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
World Quotes
Quotes on the world and our place in it.
These quotes look at the world from different angles - one traces a common phrase back to ancient religion, another describes feeling atomized after moving to a new city. A few recall novels depicting a world with tighter social fabric, where people actually knew each other. Related reading: Great Quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Moment
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
I think 'Free' captured a moment in my life where I was finding myself. There's a lot of content on there about breaking free and just developing your own philosophies, and ideologies, or world views or whatever.
- Experience
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
I get to travel so much. I get to see so many different parts of the world. I get to meet new people every day. I experience new cultures, meet new fans from different countries. I get to perform for them, too.
- Music
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
I worked hard on giving my fans and giving the world a big piece of myself through the music.
- Country
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
It's an honor, it's a privilege to be able to be one of the guys leading your country out, especially in a World Cup. It's something that you'll be able to tell your grandkids about.
- Said
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
I was drafted during the Korean War. None of us wanted to go... It was only a couple of years after World War II had ended. We said, 'Wait a second? Didn't we just get through with that?'
- Nov 07, 2020
The guys who won World War II and that whole generation have disappeared, and now we have a bunch of teenage twits.
- People
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
There are two kinds of people in this world. 'I' people and 'we' people. I've always tried to be a 'we' person.
- Moment
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
I want to live in a world where my son will not be presumed guilty the moment he is born, where a toy in his hand isn't mistaken for anything other than a toy.
- History
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
History has proven that art depicting black people cannot be disentangled from the political implications that such art has on their lives. As Africans were being stripped from the continent and sailed across the Atlantic to the Western world, depictions of black people in Western art changed in order to further render them racialized caricatures.
- Childhood
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
My childhood closet was ornamented with U.S. jerseys of World Cups spanning the nineties and two-thousands - some of my favorite memories are from summers when, with a ball under my foot and a jersey on my back, I watched the U.S. team go up against the world's best players in the largest sporting event on Earth.
- Better Way
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
There is simply no better way to generate buzz for soccer in your country than having your team in the World Cup.
- Game
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
When the U.S. team went on its historic run to the World Cup quarter-finals in 2002, I was thirteen years old. Each game in that run - the astonishing victory against Portugal, the resilient win over Mexico, even the gutsy but unlucky effort against the Germans - propelled me to push my other athletic interests aside and focus only on soccer.
- Best
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
The beauty of the World Cup is that while thirty-two countries get to cheer for their respective teams, the event also affirms a global pluralism - it is as much a festival of cultural multiplicity as it is a competition featuring some of the best athletes in the world.
- Daily
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
Young people are constantly absorbing - through media, textbooks, and policy - the myths of American exceptionalism; for black children, this means that what they are taught in class does not match the world that they navigate daily.
- Great
- |
- Nov 07, 2020