Quotes about Connection
The grave of Adam! How touching it was, here in a land of strangers, far away from home, & friends, & all who cared for me thus to discover the grave of a blood relation. True, a distant one, but still a relation.
— Mark Twain
We were building several lines of railway, and our line from Camelot to London was already finished and in operation.
— Mark Twain
Maybe just being open to things being connected made us see more. Now I shudder whenever I find that sort of connectedness creeping into my life.
— Mark Vonnegut
To be a Christian without prayer is no more possible than to be alive without breathing.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
We have flown the air like birds and swum the sea like fishes, but have yet to learn the simple act of walking the earth like brothers.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Without love, there is no reason to know anyone, for love will in the end connect us to our neighbors, our children and our hearts.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
We cannot long survive spiritually separated in a world that is geographically together.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
The real tragedy of such narrow provincialism is that we see people as entities or merely as things. Too seldom do we see people in their true humanness.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
You have very little morally persuasive power with people who can feel your underlying contempt
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
We must rapidly begin the shift from a thing-oriented society to a person-oriented society.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Yes we have learned to fly the air like birds, we've learned to swim the seas like fish, and yet we have not learned the simple art of walking the earth as brothers and sisters.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
But is it coincidence? Are there not subtle forces at work of which we know little?
— Arthur Conan Doyle