Quotes About Culture

Come lo que desees, pero vístete como el resto.

Qué es lo que canto y qué es lo que mi tambor canta?

Todas las formas son limitadas; algunas de las limitaciones son el tiempo, el lugar, la cultura, el lenguaje.

La palabra "elección" es un fraude mientras la gente elija sólo lo que le han enseñado a elegir.

La historia no es generalmente lo que ha sucedido. La historia es lo que algunas personas consideraron significativo.

La herencia y la cultura oscurecen las capacidades superiores de la gente.

La historia no es generalmente lo que ha sucedido. La historia es lo que algunas personas han considerado significativo.

La gente mantiene conversaciones enteras basadas en proverbios. Pero no están VIVIENDO los proverbios.

Cualquier sociedad que ordene a sus miembros adherirse a ambas cosas (cortesía y verdad) es fraudulenta.

Superficially, most of the Nasrudin stories may be used as jokes. They are told and retold endlessly in the teahouses and the caravanserais, in the homes and on the radio waves, of Asia. But it is inherent in the Nasrudin story that it may be understood at any one of many depths. There is the joke, the moral — and the little extra which brings the consciousness of the potential mystic a little further on the way to realisation.

I was cast in 'Thor' and I'm cast as a Nordic god. If you know anything about the Nords, they don't look like me but there you go. I think that's a sign of the times for the future. I think we will see multi-level casting. I think we will see that, and I think that's good.

On a group of theories one can found a school; but on a group of values one can found a culture, a civilization, a new way of living together among men.

Georgian folk music has more new musical ideas than all the contemporary music. [Los Angeles Times. 26.02.1990]

Some changes we can control, but we find that many things are inseparably wired into the life we share in local, national, and global communities. For example, the healthy lifestyle you are determined to live and take to be a personal choice of which you have control, is heavily influenced and limited by the culture and industries of the communities you belong to.

His songs now accompany television commercials and have been reinterpreted across the musical spectrum, from the British punk acts to jazz divas like Cassandra Wilson and Norah Jones. Hank's songs, in fact, are almost everywhere. As the records grow smaller, Hank Williams grows bigger.

She'd been in America almost three years now, but she still wasn't used to it, the same language sure, but they had different words for everything; she'd learned that a scone was a biscuit, that sidewalk meant a pavement, and that autumn was fall.

I've drunk French champagne in a speakeasy and water out of a horse trough in Poland, and the thing that matters is not what I'm drinking but who I'm drinking with.

Being Irish is very much apart of who I am I take it everywhere with me

I have a very long relationship with America. My mother grew up there and I felt to some extent that I partly belong there. I was schooled there briefly for about a year.

those lucky enough to have it included in their tours do not soon forget the the graceful, delicate mosaics

There isn't and never has been one America, but rather several Americas.

The skinwalkers are regarded as selfish, greedy, and untrustworthy," Benyshek says. "If the Navajo knew someone to be a skinwalker, they would probably kill him, not ask for his help with the Utes. Besides, even if he was asked, the skinwalker would be unlikely to help the Navajo get revenge, since his motives are entirely evil and self-serving. From the Navajo perspective, this story doesn't make sense.

As a generation, we must make our own mark of culture so we are remembered in the way we wish to be.

The cultures and arts of times are reflections of the people whom lived during those times.