Quotes About Culture

By rebuilding community, we will renew democracy and the hope we invest in it. We will develop political systems that are not so big that they cannot respond to us but not so small that they cannot meet the problems we face. We will achieve something that, paradoxically, we cannot realise alone: self-reliance. By helping each other, we help ourselves. The strong, embedded cultures

Art must be parochial in the beginning to be cosmopolitan in the end.

They used to advise young men to avoid gambling, drink, and women. And they were probably right in their time. But the single most important thing in the world today is not to read The New Yorker.

In ancient Greece, politics and the market were not decoupled.

Art, in the sense of fine art, often is a kind of religion in our age, because it appears as a means of transcending society at a time when other means of such transcendence are no longer available for many people, particularly the educated.

We must know words not as abstract grammatical and logical quantities, but as animated and social beings. Roots, inflections, word-book definitions, are products of the decomposition of speech, not speech itself. They are dead remains, stripped of their native attachments and functions, and hence it is that a living Danish scholar, himself a man of rare philological attainment and of keen linguistic perceptions, calls scholastic grammar 'the grave of language.

Why we Americans should be so dendrophilic in our homes, and so dendrophobic in our business-districts is another subject of study which should be referred to our anthropologists.

We came here to be free of Old Valyria, and your Targaryens are Valyrian to the bone.

There is entirely too much tut-tutting in this realm, if you ask me.

Too many peoples have traveled back and forth, and too many legends and tales have mingled.

A culture with cats is richer and more humane than one deprived of their unique companionship.

They bought clams and cockles from her, told her true tales of Braavos and lies about their lives, and laughed at the way she talked when she tried to speak Braavosi.

Cruel places breed cruel peoples. - Maester Luwin

Tell Khal Drogo that he has given me the wind.

Summer Islanders. That's how they mourn. They answer death with life.

The great thing about reading is that it broadens your life

Everybody that was anybody had a stained skin. A girl without one was avoided by the young men; a young man without one was at a decided disadvantage, economically and socially. A white face became startlingly rare. America was definitely, enthusiastically mulatto-minded.

There is no such thing as Negro dialect, except in literature and drama.

At the same time there seemed to be more white people on the streets of Harlem than at any time in the past twenty years. Many of them appeared to be on the most intimate terms with the Negroes, laughing, talking, dining and dancing in a most un-Caucasian way. This sort of association had always gone on at night but seldom in the daylight.

but hardly a customer had crossed her threshold in a fortnight, except two or three Jewish girls from downtown who came up regularly to have their hair straightened because it wouldn't stand inspection in the Nordic world.

A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.

To the art of working well a civilized race would add the art of playing well.

What religion a man shall have is a historical accident, quite as much as what language he shall speak.

America is a young country with an old mentality.