Quotes About Culture

I ask the educational system, the parents, the church, and pillars of the community to help shape a new culture of honesty, patriotism, respect, discipline and service for young Filipinos.

People say that human rights is a Western construct foisted on others. But that's not true. Equality, dignity, respect and justice are as much an integral part of the Islamic tradition.

Ten years before its time, a fashion is indecent; ten years after, it is hideous; but a century after, it is romantic.

Being an American means never having to say you're sorry.

Indian films are always very passionate and romantic, and so long as the scene is done well aesthetically, I have no qualms doing it.

Merengue is a fast rhythm, you know, and danceable. Bachata is like a slow, romantic Caribbean bolero.

I'm Irish, for gods sake. I'm a romantic.

In France, you have 900 years of romantic love going back to the troubadours and minstrels that wrote stories of Lancelot and Guinevere. You have gallantry at the highest level.

The romantic artist, off alone in his storm-battered castle, fuming whole worlds from his brain, reflects his culture's most persistent myth, of God creating from a primal loneliness.

jazz is the expression of America's romantic self, its sensual potency, its lyrical force.

Romantic music really stirs my soul. And, of course, I love Chinese music it makes me feel closer to home.

Aye, wumman, if it's truly romantic, then it must be Scottish.

My mother certainly loves caviar, but I think that's generational - they grew up thinking it's romantic or sophisticated or something.

I am a postmodern romantic. I try to use their way to photograph, and at the same time, incorporate the problems that I feel in a country like Guatemala.

I want to eat good Italian food and get better at their language. It seems so romantic too.

When people say that German or any other language is romantic... all they really mean is that they've enjoyed a past in the language

There's nothing more romantic than Italian food.

I love Paris for the million reasons that everybody loves the city. It's an incredibly romantic and beautiful place.

If self-validation were our most significant societal measure - we would give trophies to ourselves.

One of the sad things, I think, about the younger generation, quite frankly, is they have less sense of yesterday. And if you don't know who you were, you don't really know who you are.

I'm very sad to be compared with Warhol and The Factory, because I have no drugs, you know. We have no drug culture in Japan! Maybe it's because our attitude toward labor is totally different.

A leader who can't change the culture, is a great technician…

posit by W. B. Yeats: "Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which sustained him through temporary periods of joy.

No man, even though he be Shakespeare, can write perfectly when his web is woven of threads that have been spun in many lands.