Quotes About Culture

When I first left Iran at the age of 13, Iran had become such a shining star - it was the point to which all my desires and dreams returned.

In a polite age almost every person becomes a reader, and receives more instruction from the Press than the Pulpit.

Overseas, kids grow up in a soccer culture. The German player sees the game eons above the American player the same age.

The various forms of intellectual activity which together make up the culture of an age, move for the most part from different starting-points, and by unconnected roads.

Anyone that has come to America past the age of eighteen will be able to understand when I say that you can never shake your accent.

Horizontal and vertical sprawl... are the dinosaurs of an ending fossil-fuel age of synthetic culture.

[T]hroughout the ages to be educated meant to be unproductive.... our word "school" - and its equivalent in all European languages - derives from a Greek word meaning "leisure.

I definitely have a kind of Stockholm Syndrome for superhero movies because it's very clear that's the era we're in. It's like Christianity in the Middle Ages.

The comedy of each age holds up a mirror to the people of that age, a mirror that is unique.

It's great to have an acting job in the age of Reality TV.

...Poetic injustice...having made over Japan in our own image. The Japanese, ...are now, next to us, the greatest consumers of meat in the world.

The moral and religious teachings of no bible reach a higher altitude than the intelligence and mental development of the age and country which produced it.

I chose to tell the story visually, so that anyone of any age, from any country, could understand it.

It is personalities not principles that move the age.

In the case of the Indian villager, an age-old culture is hidden under entrustment of crudeness.

Mankind became hysterical in the Middle Ages because it poorly repressed the sexual impressions of its Greek boyhood.

I have the reputation for having read all of Henry James. Which would argue a misspent youth and middle age.

National literature does not mean much these days; now is the age of world literature, and every one must contribute to hasten thearrival of that age.

We live in the age of mass loquacity.We are all writing it or at any rate talking it: the memoir, the apologia, the c.v., the cri de coeur.

Fitzgerald coined the phrase the 'Jazz Age,' and now we're living in the Hip-Hop Age.

We live in an age of instant knowledge. And there's almost a sense of entitlement to that.

I think that... the age of just slapping songs into movies, that's done.

Ordinary language embodies the metaphysics of the Stone Age.

The spirit of the age is filled with the disdain for thinking.