Quotes About Culture

The hair is the richest ornament of women.

What the heathen had in their wood, we have in our opinions.

I am persuaded that without knowledge of literature pure theology cannot at all endure. . . . When letters have declined and lain prostrate, theology, too, has wretchedly fallen and lain prostrate. . . . It is my desire that there shall be as many poets and rhetoricians as possible, because I see that by these studies as by no other means, people are wonderfully fitted for the grasping of sacred truth and for handling it skillfully and happily.

There never yet have been, nor are there now, too many good books.

The Negro is the child of two cultures - Africa and America. The problem is that in the search for wholeness all too many Negroes seek to embrace only one side of their natures.

A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on an installment plan.

Hospitality is a word used to describe a human behavior that has the potential to bring about real-understanding among people who do not share a common faith or culture.

La civilisation, telle que je l'entends, repose sur le café et les journaux, et leur parfum.

Când plou?, oamenii citesc, merg la cinema È™i se îndr?gostesc, artiÈ™tii lucreaz?, soldaÈ›ii ramân în corturi. Dar ce fac b?rbaÈ›ii si femeile când nu plou?? Fac plaj?, pierd vremea în faÈ›a vitrinelor magazinelor de îmbr?c?minte, organizeaz? garden parties È™i masacre. Au loc mai multe r?zboaie în ??rile s?race în precipitaÈ›ii.

Alcoolul este legat de istoria omenirii ÅŸi c? num?r? mai mulÅ£i adepÅ£i decît creÅŸtinismul, budismul ÅŸi islamismul la un loc.

The fact that commercial culture always panders to the lowest common denominator of awareness and taste should not stop us in our personal revolution to become real human beings.

The fact that food plays such an important part in my films has everything to do with my family.

Eradicating a religion of kindness is, I think, a terrible thing for the Chinese to attempt.

Film in the 20th century, it's the American art form, like jazz.

Food tells you everything about the way people live and who they are.

If you're looking for the origins of film culture in America, look no further than Amos Vogel.

It is your task to walk back from the woods with an animal, not a pelt, not a corpse, but something alive. Curate that energy, feed it, don't domesticate it, make culture from it. It should be walking alongside you, not slung over your shoulder. You build your structures from its growls.

Our perception of reality is cultural & changing cultural views change reality.

Keith Thomas' Magic and the Decline of Religion (1971).

Whenever fewer women than men study a subject, then this fact is immediately seen as a problem. However, when fewer men take up a subject than women, as is the situation in fields such as foreign languages, most of the liberal arts, and some of the social sciences, nobody seems to care.

People who don't travel cannot have a global view, all they see is what's in front of them. Those people cannot accept new things because all they know is where they live.

When the external actions of a company align with its internal culture, the brand resonates with authenticity.

Here you do have forests, where pigs could be raised by letting them root about in the forests for a good part of the year. Therefore, you have a different attitude toward them compared with what continues to exist in the Middle East.

Las interpretaciones musicales, desde el lastimero punteado de una simple cuerda de violín, hasta el frenesí vertiginoso del rock, ¿celebran cada una a su manera la evolución victoriosa de las señales auditivas sobre las señales visuales, el nacimiento del lenguaje y el comienzo del extraordinario vuelo de las culturas humanas?