Culture Quotes

It's no accident that of all the monuments left of the Greco- Roman culture the biggest is the ballpark, the Colosseum, the YankeeStadium of ancient times.

There was not an awareness of pop culture in the household. There was a lot of respect for working hard, and for intellectual and professional achievement.

The reason to get in touch with the culture is not to adopt it but to engage it for the same reasons a missionary does... to gain a hearing for the gospel.

Culture is properly described as the love of perfection; it is a study of perfection.

News is like food: it is the cooking and serving that makes it acceptable, not the material itself.

Art is such an important part of our culture.

Europe is like the Roman Empire - indulged, decadent, flooded with immigrants and unprepared to fight for its culture.

I think it'd be useful for parents to know kind of what is the culture of an institution.

I'm not silly enough to think I'm going to change the whole culture ... but I do have a belief that soccer can go to a different level.

If you don't have public hangings for bad culture in a company, if you don't take people out and let them say, they went home to spend more time with the family. It's crazy.

What we can see depends heavily on what our culture has trained us to look for.

Things that are obvious don't need to be talked about. Things that are missing, do.

In a culture where profit has become the true God, self-sacrifice can seem incomprehensible rather than noble.

Culture follows power.

I began demonstrating against serious culture. In hindsight, the actual course of events has been very humiliating for me, because no one picked up on the intellectual critique I made.

In all our Yogas this renunciation is necessary. This is the stepping-stone and the real centre and the real heart of all spiritual culture - renunciation. This is religion - renunciation.

All my wife has ever taken from the Mediterranean - from that whole vast intuitive culture - are four bottles of Chianti to make into lamps, and two china condiment donkeys labelled Sally and Peppy.

The mixture of the Trinidadian people and the Indian people has caused a new culture to emerge.

We see everything. We see what celebrities buy at the supermarket. It's ridiculous. It's that visibility. I'm confused by this whole celebrity-obsessed culture.

Not a single piece of material culture - not a single object - has been found at Giza that can be interpreted to come from a lost civilization.

Many cultures have independently developed a belief system in reincarnation that includes return of the unit of consciousness to another physical lifetime on Earth.

One ought not to hoard culture. It should be adapted and infused into society as a leaven. Liberality of culture does not mean illiberality of its benefits.

I love consumerism, TV culture, shopping malls. There's nothing I'd ever buy, but I like being there. It's wacky.

The powers that be are trying to meld, shape, and corral the culture of hip-hop into another speaking voice for the government.

Good action films - not crap, but good action films - are really morality plays. They deal in modern, mythic culture.

My idols are Janis Joplin and Annie Lennox, who are neither of them from the typical pop culture.

Music is critical in our lives and culture. It's the inspiration that drives us. It's also the window to our souls. It's a reflection as to who we are, what we stand for and where we're going.

America is the sum of all our journeys as we search for our national community and our national culture.

I am very sure that any man of common understanding may, by culture, care, attention, and labor, make himself what- ever he pleases, except a great poet.

Orphei Drängar possesses a combination of power, energy, and culture. Joy of discovery combined with professional technical and musical prowess.

It is not for us . . . to send out missionaries to foreign peoples; it is our task to build up our own Western culture.

All objects, all phases of culture are alive. They have voices. They speak of their history and interrelatedness. And they are all talking at once!

The worlds of folklore and religion were so mingled in early twentieth venture German culture that even families who didn't go to church were often deeply Christian.

Employees are the key to your success with customers. Treat them well!

Culture is both an intellectual phenomenon and a moral one

Humanism and Divinity are as complementary to one another in theorder of culture, as are Nature and Grace in the order of being.

And yet, in a culture like ours, which is given to material comforts, and addicted to forms of entertainment that offer immediate gratification, it is surprising that so much poetry is written.

Well, my husband is supportive of my work, like advocating for dialogue between cultures on YouTube.

From the subtle to the extreme, our culture and our values are under unrelenting attack from the media.

Not a having and a resting, but a growing and a becoming, is the character of perfection as culture conceives it.

We are not relevant when we mirror secular culture. We are relevant when we are what they long to be.

Are you moving forward, or just moving?

The first step to delighting your customers is being there when they need you.

Jesus is interested in changing cultures, not just putting bodies in chairs.

It's considered acceptable in our culture to approach perfect strangers, as often or not who may be in extremis, and evangelise. I don't see why that's considered a normal thing.

I think culture's always been violent, and it is something we find very entertaining. Not only does it reflect our social reality, but it also reflects our psychic reality.

Tyranny is usually tempered with assassination, and Democracy must be tempered with culture. In the absence of this, it turns into a representation of collective folly.

If you work in an urgent-only culture, the only solution is to make the right things urgent.

There's a huge piece of humanity that's missing - a huge piece - and our [American] culture is infant, comparatively speaking, to these folks who have been around for thousands of years.

I don't think that art, if it's isolated and specialized, can really create culture. It needs a cult.