Quotes About Culture

New Jersey for me is so alive with history. It's old, dynamic, African-American, Latino.

I'm interested in the history of ideas and how these ideas take on flesh and influence culture, and the church.

I'm not as much a history person as an art person, but I mean, you can read history through art.

History is the product of vast, amorphous and indecipherable social movements.

What kind of people do we wish to become, and how do we know an American when we see one? Is it possible to pursue a common purpose without a common history or a standard text?

The history of skiing is important to me.

Everybody should be able to choose according to his own values and history, within a European civilization that we all belong to.

I have been always fascinated and seduced by history, which I think is very close, very close to literature.

I don't have space to enter into the examples or the history of this, so I'm left with having to make the bold statement that culture is extinct.

You can take things from the past, from the culture, from the immediate past and things that have not yet entered the culture, so they have no history yet. You can create your own context.

A lot of networks don't want to touch controversial subjects, and especially stuff that deals with race and history.

throughout human history people have scarred, painted, pierced, padded, stiffened, plucked, and buffed their bodies in the name of beauty.

India is a civilization with a history that is thousands of years old.The diversity of India, of our civilization, is actually a thing of beauty, which is something we are extremely proud of.

We teach in our cultural history that the entire universe is a family. So our association with Nature is much deeper and of a very different kind.

I don't want to die ... I don't want to die poor. Two great motivators in the history of human cultures.

The biggest difference between England and America is that England has history, while America has geography.

If you go back in American history, oysters were the food of poor people. New York was filled with oyster saloons in the 1800s.

Regard for the past only extends to its outward forms.

Design is a vital component to the enrichment of our everyday lives. Japan has a very rich history and culture of design, and I feel it is a very important dialogue to open and keep evolving.

Food for us comes from our relatives, whether they have wings or fins or roots. That is how we consider food. Food has a culture. It has a history. It has a story. It has relationships.

There's never been a culture without poetry in the history of the world.

My happiness is being able to present my talents for people to see, and I feel like I'm an ambassador of Thai history and Thai culture on film so that people can see Muay Thai.

Humor is so important to the American scene throughout history.

I think I went to Italy initially for the art, architecture, food and history, but I stayed there because of the people in Cortona.