Quotes About Culture

The Babylonian system of accents is similar to the Tiberian, with small variations.

Archaic Hebrew ... earliest inscriptions dating as far back as the close of the second millennium BCE.

We do not go to bed in single pairs; even if we choose not to refer to them, we still drag there with us the cultural impedimenta of our social class, our parents lives, our bank balances, our sexual and emotional expectations, our whole biographies -- all the bits and pieces of our unique existences.

Language is power, life and the instrument of culture, the instrument of domination and liberation.

Like the culture that created me, I am receding into the past at a rate of knots. Soon I'll need a whole row of footnotes if anybody under thirty-five is going to comprehend the least thing I say.

We do not go to bed in single pairs; even if we choose not to refer to them, we still drag there with us the cultural impedimenta of our social class, our parents' lives, our bank balances, our sexual and emotional expectations, our whole biographies / all the bits and pieces of our unique existences.

Swahili storytellers believe that women are incorrigibly wicked, diabolically cunning and sexually insatiable; I hope this is true, for the sake of the women.

Man does and is dressed to do so, his skin is his own business. He is artful, the creation of culture. Woman is; and is, therefore, fully dressed in no clothes at all, her skin is common property.

It's one of the scars in our culture that we have too high an opinion of ourselves.

Consider the nature of a city. It is a vast repository of time.

And this was how the red people passed their time and amused themselves when they thought nobody was watching.

Cities have sexes: London is a man, Paris a woman, and New York a well-adjusted transsexual.

It's true that it's within the realm of cultural politics that young people tend to work through political issues, which I think is good, although it's not going to solve the problems.

Aussie (also Ozzie) n. & adj. informal term for AUSTRALIA or AUSTRALIAN.

British history.

Ngata Sir Apirana Turupa (1874–1950), New Zealand Maori leader and politician. As Minister for Native Affairs he devoted much time to Maori resettlement, seeking to preserve the characteristic elements of Maori life and culture.

Men make angry music and it's called rock-and-roll women include anger in their vocabulary and suddenly they're angry and militant.

I see a lot of connections between folk and punk music just because they're both subcorporate music - I mean, traditionally.

I basically get stereotyped a lot in terms of being a girl and writing 'chick' music for teenage girls or something. I think, if anything, the press kind of, because of my gender and my age, tends to kind of relegate my work to this sort of special-interest group. It's part of the cultural dynamic, I guess.

Science chases money and money chases its tail and the best minds of my generation can't make bail. But the bacteria are coming-- that's my prediction. It's the answer to this culture of the quick-fix prescription.

One can hardly be Indian and not know that almost every accent, which hand you eat your food with, has some deeper symbolic truth, reality.

We are told not to leave food on the table overnight: it draws the dead.

It seems to me that the English are never serious--they are flippant, complacent, ineffable, but never serious, which is sometimes maddening.

India is a curious place that still preserves the past, religions, and its history. No matter how modern India becomes, it is still very much an old country.