Quotes About Culture

inside so as not to offend the ancestors.

I looked at the terraced hills and noticed how the people had changed the earth, taming it into dizzying staircases of rice paddies; but the Chinese looked at the people and saw how they have been shaped by the land.

In China it's common for people in restaurants to complain about food. The Chinese can be passive about many things, but food is not one of them; I suppose this is one reason they've ended up with a first-rate cuisine and a long history of political disasters.

The history of China, like the history of any great culture, was written at the expense of other stories that have remained silent.

Everything still revolves around memorization and repetition, the old cornerstones of Chinese education.

In Fuling I was always extremely conscious of my appearance, because every day I was confronted by the ways in which I looked different from the locals, but now in these desert towns I saw people with noses and hair and eyes like mine. For the first time I realized the full importance of race, not just in the way it divided people, but also in the sense of feeling a link to those who looked like you.

Sometimes they seemed to grasp instinctively at the worst of both worlds: the worst modern habits, the worst traditional beliefs.

If you drive God out the world then you create a howling wilderness." (Copyright: www.changinglives.au.com )

There is one way to understand another culture. Living it. Move into it, ask to be tolerated as a guest, learn the language.

There is one way to understand another culture. Living it. Move into it, ask to be tolerated as a guest, learn the language. At some point understanding may come. It will always be wordless. The moment you grasp what is foreign, you will lose the urge to explain it. To explain a phenomenon is to distance yourself from it. When I start talking about Qaanaaq, to myself or to others, I again start to lose what has never been truly mine.

Junk food, junk religion, and junk products just leads to excessive numbers of junk people living junk lifestyles.

than not, that we read scripture not only in the light of our own culture but as a means of defining and defending that very culture over and against which scripture by its very nature is meant to stand. In other words, scripture is invariably used to support the status

Thou shalt do no murder," and the distinction between murder and killing is not a small one. Murder, in the Hebrew language and culture, refers to the premeditated taking of a life outside the womb; killing had to do with the ritual

In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder, bloodshed – but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love; they had five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock.

Jack Grace told his son that to be a police officer meant that you looked at the world differently from everyone else. You were part of a healthy culture of suspicion, he'd called it.

Postmodernism: The cultural condition marked by the absolute gratification of human desires and the absolute neglect of human needs.

Our culture has filled our heads but emptied our hearts, stuffed our wallets but starved our wonder. It has fed our thirst for facts but not for meaning or mystery. It produces "nice" people, not heroes.

America does not know the difference between money and sex. It treats sex like money because it treats sex as a medium of exchange, and it treats money like sex because it expects its money to get pregnant and reproduce.

And Lamech married two women, one named Adah and the other Zillah.

The sons of Gomer: Ashkenaz, Riphath, and Togarmah.

From these, the maritime peoples separated into their territories, according to their languages, by clans within their nations.

The sons of Cush: Seba, Havilah, Sabtah, Raamah, and Sabteca. And the sons of Raamah: Sheba and Dedan.

and Resen, which is between Nineveh and the great city of Calah.

the Pathrusites, the Casluhites (from whom the Philistines came), and the Caphtorites.