Quotes About Culture

Greece and Poverty," said the historian Herodotus, "have always been bedfellows";

Language is partly something originally given, partly that which develops freely. And just as the individual... can never reach the point at which he becomes absolutely independent ... so too with language.

Young people don't have a fantasy life anymore, not the way we did. All they've got is Kojak and Dirty Harry. There's all these kids running around wanting to be killer cops.

The great thing about reading is that it broadens your life

I worry about a culture that devalues life and believe as your president I have an important obligation to foster and encourage respect for life in America and throughout the world.

Culture of life is really important for a country to have if it's going to be a hospitable society.

I have made sense of my life by developing an ability to analyze Mainstream American Cultural Artifacts.

The library takes me away from my everyday life and allows me to see other places and learn to understand other people unlike myself.

Every film takes on its own life. I find it very interesting to show an audience some part of history that maybe they don't know.

Music is something I must do, business is something I need to do, and Africa is something I have to do. That's the way it breaks down in my life.

At the present moment in world history nearly every nation must choose between alternative ways of life. The choice is too often not a free one.

Some things are really necessaries of life in some circles, which in others are luxuries merely and in others still are entirely unknown.

The whole object of my life has been to inculcate into Cornish people a sense of their Cornishness.

Life in clubs is no paltry sign of the times we live in. Here gentlemen gamble with others whom they would not dream of inviting to their homes.

The atheist worldview of life is a materialistic culture that frees humanity from superstition.

Superstitions add texture to life.

I think we live in a country where self-mythology or making up legends about your own life is something everyone does.

An excessive indulgence in the pleasures of social life constitutes the great interests of a luxuriant and opulent age.

all the salt of Turkish life consists of politics and official intrigue.

No nation can be destroyed while it possesses a good home life.

Race differences show up early in life.

It seems to be typical of life in America ... that the second generation has no time to talk to the first.

I think Americans are terrified of feeling anything. I never met a people more infantile in my life.

This race and this country and this life produced me, he said. I shall express myself as I am.