Culture Quotes

Frontline love. It is our one hope for breaking down barriers and for restoring the sense of community, of caring for one another, that our decadent, impersonalized culture has sucked out of us.

Isn't connecting people to distant lands and culture one of the strengths of good literature?

Our culture raises us to seek success but we are not taught how to live with it.

There will never be color blindness in a culture of fear.

We live in a culture that has a real hard time distinguishing fiction from reality. Even when they're told something is fiction.

I was delighted to become a popular-culture reference point. I'm still delighted about it actually, and I still find it to be weird.

We do not measure a culture by its output of undisguised trivialities but by what it claims as significant.

Character is the backbone of our human culture. Music is the flowering of character.

I love where I'm from. I don't live there because of the circumstances, but all my family is there. It's what's inside, it's not what's outside that determines the culture and the feeling.

When you learn something from people, or from a culture, you accept it as a gift, and it is your lifelong commitment to preserve it and build on it.

We found out that you can't pass on acquired things like bigotry, prejudice, greed. That's all learned in your culture or your sub-culture

During the many centuries that magic, here on this planet, was presumed to have worked, there were at least as many theories as to how magic worked as there were cultures and religions.

It's a dark culture that we live in. But you were called to glow in the dark.

The culture used to move relatively slowly, so you could take aim. Now it moves so fast, and is so fluffy and meaningless, you feel like an idiot even complaining about it.

If there is one thing I long for above all else, it's that the years to come may see Christianity in this country able again to capture the imagination of our culture.

Culture of the mind must be subservient to the heart.

We live in a beauty-obsessed culture, which on one hand is absolutely fabulous, but on the flip side, is also dangerously extreme.

Like every other good thing in this world, leisure and culture have to be paid for. Fortunately, however, it is not the leisured and the cultured who have to pay.

Even if you're not Christian, just from being in our culture you know Jesus and resurrection and redemption.

I plant a lot of trees. I am a great believer in planting things for future generations. I loathe the now culture where you just live for today.

In the Mexican culture, we never miss a baptism, a birthday, a baby shower, a wedding shower, a wedding. You must show up. Otherwise, you'll be in big trouble.

It may be in the cultural particularities of people — in their oddities — that some of the most instructive revelations of what it is to be generically human are to be found.

Santa is our culture's only mythic figure truly believed in by a large percentage of the population. It's a fact that most of the true believers are under eight years old, and that's a pity.

An aristocratic culture does not advertise its emotions. In its forms of expression it is sober and reserved. Its general attitude is stoic.

American journalism (like the journalism of any other country) is predominantly paltry and worthless. Its pretensions are enormous, but its achievements are insignificant.

Everyone has huge creative capacities. The challenge is to develop them. A culture of creativity has to involve everybody, not just a select few.

If the KKK was smart enough, they would've created gangsta rap because it's such a caricature of black culture and black masculinity.

I, like all artists in Western cultures, am a shaman...come in the guise of a comic...to heal perception by using...'jokes'.

If you're anxious to shine in the high aesthetic line as a man of culture rare, you must get up all the germs of the transcendental terms, and plant them everywhere.

What they have implanted here, which is really a 'gringo' custom, is terrorism. They disguise children as witches and wizards, that is contrary to our culture.

Harbour Island in the Bahamas is a wonderful little island with beautiful beaches, a great restaurant culture and friendly, welcoming atmosphere.

It is simply that we treat Japanese history, the history of the Japanese people and its unique culture with greater respect and interest. This generates enormous interest in Russia!

Our problem is that sound is not important in our culture. We know the world from the visual, not from the other senses. I had to be taught other ways of understanding.

I think there is no culture in which music is not very important and central. That's why I think of us as a sort of musical species.

Tremendous interest in the superficial is very characteristic of cultures in decline.

We now have a whole culture based on the assumption that people know nothing and so anything can be said to them.

All of our forebears contributed to what South Africa has become. That does not, however, mean that I must apologize to anyone for being born a Zulu, or for having that culture.

On the Iberian Peninsula in the Spanish-Portuguese area, southern France that high state of a culture existed there because of Africans known as Moors had come there and brought it there.

While I have no problem with the church adapting to the culture, we must ensure that we remain painstakingly true to the Gospel of Jesus Christ and that we remain obedient servants to His truths.

What really binds men together is their culture, the ideas and the standards they have in common.

Culture is an indispensable weapon in the freedom struggle.

I do not care to be esthetically tickled in a fancy theater surrounded by an audience drenched in the confident perfume of culture. I can't afford it.

My second record was all about big ideas - I was trying to make big statements about the culture, about life. I think in a certain way, I was a 27 year old kid with a guitar

The thing I have learned at IBM is that culture is everything.

Technology and comfort - having those, people speak of culture, but do not have it.

'Dare to Discipline' was published in 1970 in the midst of the Vietnam War and a culture of rebellion. The book was written in that context, but the principles of child rearing have not changed.

Sharing knowledge is not part of Western culture

Are you willing to take responsibility for your team's culture or do you treat it like the weather - something that happens to you?

Introverts paradoxically pull away from culture and create culture.

England as a culture has endured so much more than America has as a culture, so it's given them a different perspective.