Quotes About Culture

I don't want our culture diluted. We need to close the borders now and let everyone assimilate to a Western, white, English-speaking way of life.

The task is clear: to create a culture of caretaking in which no one and nowhere is thrown away, in which the inherent value of people and all life is foundational.

Everywhere immigrants have enriched and strengthened the fabric of American life.

Cooking is one of the oldest arts and one which has rendered us the most important service in civic life.

What kind of life can you have in a house without books?

I grew up in the South with guns everywhere and we never shot anyone. This [shooting] is about people who aren't taught the value of life.

The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable.

For a long time I heard rap without paying attention, but it is still a way of life, even when you're a kid.

Cricket has so many meanings to so many Australians. It's become precisely that - an Australian way of life. And what a life it is. Some would even go as far as to say, 'marvellous'.

The border between the dead and the living, if you're Mexican, doesn't exist. The dead are part of your life.

In Amsterdam, the river and canals have been central to city life for the last four centuries.

Since art is dead in the actual life of civilized nations, it has been relegated to these grotesque morgues, museums.

By suppressing differences and peculiarities, by eliminating different civilizations and cultures, progress weakens life and favors death

You dance because you have to. Dance is an essential part of life that has always been with me.

Even more importantly, it's wine, food and the arts. Incorporating those three enhances the quality of life.

Life will go on as long as there is someone to sing, to dance, to tell stories and to listen.

A culture that values production over life values the wrong things, because it will produce things at the expense of living beings, human or otherwise.

Our history is responsible for the differences in the South African way of life.

Typography is a minor technicality of civilized life.

Seeing is more than a physiological phenomenon... We see not only with our eyes but with all that we are and all that our culture is. The artist is a professional see-er.

When you go through all your life processing and abusing your hair so it will look like the hair of another race of people then you are making a statement and the statement is clear

I love being Canadian. I think growing up in Canada gives you a world perspective that I certainly enjoy.

I have to listen to New York; I live there. I wasn't born there, but I've been living there all my life.

The myth of unending consumption has taken the place of the belief in life everlasting.