Quotes About Culture

Americans suffer from mono-lingual myopia - a disease of the tongue that affects the vision.

The tea-kettle is as much an English institution as aristocracy or the Prayer-Book.

The Saudis would struggle in Europe because of that problem with those prayers five times a day.

Today there are more Muslims at prayer on Fridays in Britain, France, or Germany than there are Christians at mass or liturgy in those countries on Sundays.

I believe prayer for our nation has never been more important as we witness an accelerating anti-Christian fervor in the so-called mainstream of our culture.

Sophistication called for a variety of talents and attitudes, but the minimum requirement was being in New York. Not all New Yorkers achieved it, but nobody elsewhere had a prayer.

Most people have a passive relationship with music and clothes, with culture. But music was my first contact with anything creative. Music is it, as far as I'm concerned.

We have to bring children into a new relationship to food that connects them to culture and agriculture.

I feel it is an obligation to help people understand the relation of food to agriculture and the relationship of food to culture.

More than a mere alternative strategy, regenerative agriculture represents a fundamental shift in our culture's relationship to nature.

College football: I do not see the relationship of those highly industrialized affairs on Saturday afternoons to higher learning in America.

A love relationship has always been shaped by the context and times we live in.

I've always been interested in the relationship between total external surround, culture, the political matrix, technology, etc., and the internal human consciousness.

The secret to a long-lasting relationship is perpetually imagining the worst. It's a world view tracing back to my Eastern European ancestry and one I draw upon regularly.

The sales manager's job is to become a sales leader and focus on communicating the culture.

Why was it, he wondered, that all these stories envisaged technological marvels by the bushel, but seemed to assume that social structure and culture wouldn't change in over four centuries? (Chad Oliver, "The Ant and the Eye")

Apart from the desire to produce beautiful things, the leading passion of my life has been and is hatred of modern civilization.

The English seem to think drinking wine is like committing adultery, something you do rarely and abroad.

success as an apologist: Étienne Gilson called Orthodoxy 'the best piece of apologetic the century [has] produced'; it brought Dorothy L. Sayers back to Christianity, just as The Everlasting Man brought C. S. Lewis to his famous moment of conversion on Headington Hill. Much remains to be done before Chesterton's huge oeuvre can be adequately assessed as a major part of the cultural history of the last century.

Toda cultura es provisional, porque siempre otra cultura está al acecho. Toda cultura es tanteo, exploración, experimento, y siempre sabemos que del descubrimiento del error y de la conciencia del error puede nacer lo nuevo.

Hermanados por la tradición y por la lengua, tal vez no esté muy lejos el día en que se cumpla el todavía improbable sueño de una unidad de naciones de nuestra América

American culture, aggressive self-regard is no longer viewed with alarm. Instead people praise and promote it."6

We are the meeting place, an entity that's trying to connect faith and culture.

The modern world belongs to the half-educated, a rather difficult class, because they do not realize how little they know.