Quotes About Culture

Learning to take hold of one's life is very difficult in a culture that values property over life.

'Classic.' A book which people praise and don't read.

In Europe life is histrionic and dramatized, and in America, except when it is trying to be European, it is direct and sincere.

A culture is a total way of life. It embraces what people ate and what they wore; the way they walked and the way they talked; the manner in which they treated death and greeted the newborn.

My purpose is to paint the life of my people as I know it.

Because of our social circumstances, male and female are really two cultures and their life experiences are utterly different.

To barbecue is a way of life rather than a desirable method of cooking.

I have never in my life seen a Kentuckian who didn't have a gun, a pack of cards, and a jug of whiskey.

I was told all my life I was part Cherokee. Then it was Crow. The latest is Blackfoot.

It was not my aim to paint about the Negro in America in terms of propaganda. It is to depict the life of my people as I know it, passionately and dispassionately as Brueghel.

Where you grew up becomes a big part of who you are for the rest of your life. You can't run away from that. Well, sometimes the running away from it is what makes you who you are.

Most of my life I was occupied with American television and American food. My ethnicity was my choice. It still is

Broadway is a main artery of New York life - the hardened artery.

I've spent my whole life in Chicago being asked where am I from, so that I have a sense of displacement that also is very psychologically disorienting.

Until the culture recognizes the legitimacy of growing down, each person in the culture struggles blindly to make sense of the darkness that the soul requires to deepen into life.

Being Latina to me is living your life like it's a big old fiesta!

I have tried my whole life to represent my Mexican roots with honor and pride.

We must develop a deeper interest and greater understanding of the people we meet here or abroad. Like us, they are passengers on board that mysterious ship called life.

I have Algerian, Turkish, Swedish, Spanish blood: I feel like a citizen of the world. Life and cinema don't have borders.

What matters is this: Being fearless of failure arms you to break the rules. In doing so, you may change the culture and just possibly, for a moment, change life itself.

I hardly exaggerate. Jewish life consists of two elements: Extracting money and protesting.

A lot of it revolves around food with me because a lot of my life does in a way.

The victim mentality may be the last uncomplicated thing about life in America.

In civilized life, law floats in a sea of ethics.