Cultural Quotes
When the purpose of clearly exposing the differences between the Aryan and the Tamil culture, civilization, conduct and creed Thirukkural was written. I am of that firm view.
Often we may even smile or laugh at adversity, but all people share the same passions. They are merely manifest differently according to one's culture and conditioning.
Line of control should be a garden, a place of art and cultural festival.
If we danced and shared music, we'd be too busy en-joy-in' life to start a war.
The peace in the homes is the peace in the towns.The peace in the towns is the peace in the nation.The peace in the nation is the peace in the world.
I am living in world full of lost hope and discrimination. I am living a life in which social equality does not exist and I am not sure that it ever can, or if once upon a time it ever did.
My skin is beautiful but it also serves as a huge barrier for so many opportunities that I want to pursue in life.
It’s unfortunate really—how everyone can live on the same soil yet not even know the first thing about their neighbors.
Differences simply act as a yarn of curiosity unraveling until we get to the other side.
In many ways, the title American is an oxymoron because one may look it on the outside but not feel it on the inside.
How could we have discovered great lands, if we dare not travel?
The uniqueness of different colours represents the uniqueness of individuals!
Appreciation for cultural diversity is essential for our co-existence.
We all have a book in us. The first step is recognising this. Writing it is a whole new journey.
During the Japanese invasion, bombs had fallen from the sky and people could run for cover. Now, they exploded in the middle of the road, or in the fields while people were playing soccer.
Where I grew up, women’s liberation was when you let a chick out of her cage so she could stretch her legs for 15 minutes.
Knowing how you want your work to look helps you decide who best to work with and where.
That's the positive aspect of trade I suppose. The world gets stirred up together. That's about as much as I have to say for it.
With courage of adventure, you can overcome the culture shock in a visit to a new country.
We travel to see beautiful places and to meet great souls.
It has become a cultural norm in Jewish families for parents to bring up their children to value wealth.
I love the different shades of colours. Purely beautiful!
No matter how long a log of wood remains in the river it does not become a crocodile
Most of my important lessons about life have come from recognizing how others from a different culture view things.
To challenge humanism in any field, you must possess a uniquely biblical view of God, man, law, and time.
Irish and English are so widely separated in their mode of expression that nothing like a literal rendering from one language to the other is possible.
In WASP families, if you don't get along with someone, you have as little to do with them as possible. In Jewish families, you move next door, to make them as miserable as possible.
My father insisted I eat red meat. 'You'll lose your brain without food, ' he said. A meal to him without beef was starvation.
Cheese, where you takes liquid from a cow lady's business parts, mix it with a bit o' juices from a baby cow's fourth stomach and then let it grow all fuzzy-moldy for a few years, eh?
9/11 forced us to build another identity, to look deep and say who are we and what do we believe and is killing in the name of Islam part of that religion?No. No. No.
It is not easy to be stranded between two worlds, the sad truth is that we can never feel completely comfortable in either world
We can give up belief in God while not losing touch with a treasured heritage.
Dare I ask Mao and his Communist Party?I fear my throat will be cut into two pieces.In the name of revolution, for thought crimes, Such questions can turn me to ashes.
Many of us persons of the tinted persuasion care about human rights and artistic freedom too.
What would America be like if we loved black people as much as we love black culture?
human societies, at least the more advanced cultures, have rarely offered the individual anything but imperialism, racism, and ethnocentrism for dealing with "other" cultures.