Quotes About Culture

I've always known that my father's father and grandfather and grandmother were from Mexico. I've never denied it. I've always said it.

That which thy fathers have bequeathed to thee, earn it anew if thou wouldst possess it.

I was born to an Arab father and I was born Islamic.

My father belonged to a Jewish social club.

My father, who grew up picking olives on the Greek island of Lesbos, was a doctor. So my family expected me to become a physician.

My father was interested in bringing reggae music to the entire world.

Mexico was most powerfully my father's smile and not, as you might otherwise imagine, not language, not pigment.

My father was a businessman, but my mother was an intellectual. She cared about culture, politics, and philosophy, so I became interested in the protest aspect of Latin American art.

Bullies: How the Left's Culture of Fear and Intimidation Silences Americans

Today barbarism has taken over many city streets, or people fear it has, which comes to much the same thing in the end.

There will never be color blindness in a culture of fear.

The library is seen as a force for self improvement and the pursuit of knowledge. I fear that in many cases this is no longer true, if it ever was.

When you rule in a culture of fear, you're not getting the best out of people.

But I was in awe of the painters; I mean I was new in New York, and I thought the painting that was going on here was just unbelievable

Myths and legends die hard in America.

Americans' great and secret fear is that America may turn out to be a phenomenon rather than a civilization.

In foreign countries they fear baldness. They are so rich in foreign countries, they can afford to fear all kinds of silly things.

I don't think that I had any idea that 'Fear of Flying' would become a part of the culture. I had no idea that it would go all over the world and be published in Chinese and Serbo-Croat and so on.

Religion can only change when the emotions which fill it are changed; and the religion of personal fear remains nearly at the level of the savage.

It is the way of my people to use light words at such times and say less than they mean. We fear to say too much. It robs us of the right words when a jest is out of place.

Life is painful. It has thorns, like the stem of a rose. Culture and art are the roses that bloom on the stem. The flower is yourself, your humanity. Art is the liberation of the humanity inside yourself.

There are hundreds of languages in the world, but a smile speaks them all.

No man should travel until he has learned the language of the country he visits. Otherwise he voluntarily makes himself a great baby - so helpless and so ridiculous.

Life isn't all beer and skittles, but beer and skittles, or something better of the same sort, must form a good part of every Englishman's education.