Quotes About Culture

Latin is beautiful and has become something of an international language, but there is also something about singing in your native language that has meaning.

My native place is Belgaum and I understand Kannada and have a flavor for acting in South Indian languages.

Instead of kids just hearing about beads and baskets and fringe, and about what 'was' and 'were,' we present Native American culture as a living contemporary culture.

My Native American heritage was not embraced by our family, and we grew up African-American, so I didn't have a lot of access or history to that line of my family.

I'm Native American, so the racial thing kind of hits home with me.

I'm tri-racial: African-American, Native American and Euro - that's the Scotch-Irish part.

I have a hard problem, being some part Native American - being a Christian: do you get burned, do you get cremated, do you get - let the sharks eat you? How do you die?

I have built my world through Native American mythology.

There's all sorts of soul. There's Irish soul and Native American soul. If it touches you and moves you, it's soul.

Horsemanship and the cowboy lifestyle and my culture as a Native American are all three things that are very, very important to me.

Being Native American, we were different than everybody else, but I never felt like I was different.

I'm a Native American actress.

I think I always knew I would be a writer some day, but it wasn't until I was grown and had children of my own that I turned to telling Native American stories.

From the age of about 8 to the age of about 15, I was obsessed with Native Americans.

Here, we tell the story: why the people came here, what they did when they got here, going back to the Native Americans and coming all the way forward.

Mongolia is a country of rich and ancient heritage, unique culture and astounding natural beauty. It is a land of free and brave, peace-loving and hard-working people.

The natural world is the only one we have. To try to not see the natural world - to put on blinders and avoid seeing it - would for me seem like a form of madness. I'm also interested in the way landscape shapes individuals and populations, and from that, cultures.

Guilt. It comes naturally to me as a Jew and a Liberal.

I did live over in the U.K. for a while, so I guess I'm just naturally a Brit at heart.

A lifetime of low calories has come naturally to the longest-lived people in the world... in the Japanese archipelago of Okinawa.

Those who resist are relentlessly self-critical. They ask the hard questions that mass culture, which promises an unachievable eternal youth, fame and financial success, deflects us from asking. What does it mean to be born? What does it mean to live? What does it mean to die? How do we live a life of meaning? What is justice? What is truth? What is beauty? What does our past say about our present? How do we defy radical evil?

To be a rebel is to reject what it means to succeed in a capitalist, consumer culture, especially the idea that we should always come first.

Daniel Boorstin in The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-Events in America

A culture that does not grasp the vital interplay between morality and power, which mistakes management techniques for wisdom, which fails to understand that the measure of a civilization is its compassion, not its speed or ability to consume, condemns itself to death.