Quotes About Culture

In recent poems, I have abandoned the theme of not being able to write for an even more obsessive subject, the nature of language, particularly English, in the formation of my imagination and being.

The function of the West is to turn bodies and minds into products. It cannot understand that the rest of the world holds this to be an obscenity, a corruption of our nirvanic nature.

But Sasha who after all had no English blood in her but was from Russia where the sunsets are longer, the dawns less sudden, and sentences often left unfinished from doubt as to how best to end them.

Culture defines who we are and how we see ourselves. A new attitude toward nature provides space for a new attitude toward culture and the role it plays in sustainable development

That's the nature of my [stand-up] act: black man with a white baby.

Politics, nature, and what is happening all over the world is important to who we are and where we live.

An old Apache storyteller reminds us

Both analog and digital developments have intensified the viral nature of sonic culture.

French is a foreign language, but I've been speaking it since I was 18 so it's second nature to me.

The nature of athletic celebrity is increasingly moving away from the actual field of play.

I will go further, and assert that nature without culture can often do more to deserve praise than culture without nature.

To make a revolution is not in the grain of our people's nature.

I think these things social networks are going to have some legs,and yet there's a faddishness, a faddish nature about anything that basically appeals to younger people.

Culture is a symbolic veil with which we hide our animal nature from ourselves … and other animals.

Cities are more than the sum of their infrastructure. They transcend brick and mortar, concrete and steel. They're the vessels into which human knowledge is poured.

But Sasha was from Russia, where the sunsets are longer, the dawns less sudden and sentences are often left unfinished from doubt as how to best end them.

Engineering -nature is engineering, so is culture, science is right behind, only chaos is not an engineer- and, along with it, the furious need to reproduce.

Nuclear weapons and TV have simply intensified the consequences of our tendencies.

Wherever you travel to, appreciate the culture and beauty of the place.

Nature and man are opposed in Spain.

I was already well schooled in looking away, the jungle-craft of gentility.

You can't change laws without first changing human nature... You can't change human nature without first changing the law.

They have been disrespecting our values and morals for very long time because of the nature of their values system.

Everything depends on upbringing.