Quotes About Culture

When in Texas, do as the Texans do: Drive trucks, wear cowboy boots, and two-step!

Growing up, I remember thinking country music was all honky-tonks and beer and trucks - Britney Spears was my first concert.

Every society gets the kind of criminal it deserves. What is equally true is that every community gets the kind of law enforcement it insists on.

The art of a people is a true mirror to their minds.

Each tribe has its characteristics, it is true.

You have to stay true to your heritage; that's what your brand is about.

There are still some people out there who believe comic books are nothing more than, well, comic books. But the true cognoscenti know graphic novels are - at their best - an amazing blend of art literature and the theater of the mind.

It is not part of a true culture to tame tigers, any more than it is to make sheep ferocious.

Ceremonies are different in every country, but true politeness is everywhere the same.

Everybody says 'Good Morning' in Harlem because it's true! And that's lovely.

As far as the grunge thing, there are three bands from Seattle that I would call true grunge.

Spend a day around my players, around my African-American players, my Hispanic players, my Polynesian players, and you'll see the true beauty of who they are.

He is not a true man of the world who knows only the present fashions of it.

Hip Hop is an extension of our very being, and so the study of Hip Hop is the study of self-expression leading to the study of one's true self.

The most forward-leaning leaders are single-minded about creating company cultures that foster a true spirit of innovation.

When people hear the name 'Marco Polo,' they tend to think of a map or explorer. Very few people know the true story of Marco Polo, and it's so much more compelling and exciting than the mythology.

True success in the N.B.A., you must have consistency of culture.

The earliest movies that I loved were French movies and Italian movies. I grew up watching those kind of movies and often find the truest looks at human nature - you can find them in another country's movies.

The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music. Bodies never lie.

Japan, not only a mega-busy city that thrives on electronics and efficiency, actually has an almost sacred appreciation of nature. One must travel outside of Tokyo to truly experience the 'old Japan' and more importantly feel these aspects of Japanese culture.

It was a big deal to leave home and my culture and my language. But I believed that in America, I could truly reap what I sowed and that the measure of a man was his ability and determination to succeed. This was the land of boundless opportunity.

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.

Modernism is typically defined as the condition that begins when people realize God is truly dead, and we are therefore on our own.

Let's face it - think of Africa, and the first images that come to mind are of war, poverty, famine and flies. How many of us really know anything at all about the truly great ancient African civilizations, which in their day, were just as splendid and glorious as any on the face of the earth?