Quotes About Culture

Art is exalted above religion and race. Not a single solitary soul these days believes in the religions of the Assyrians, the Egyptians and the Greeks... Only their art, whenever it was beautiful, stands proud and exalted, rising above all time.

Whenever culture has gone through a radical change, as ours has - from industrial age to information age - there are people who will deny that things have changed; they resist it and refuse to change.

Whenever I'm doing a collection, I'm inspired by the world around us.

Whenever you go to Kashmir, you find people who are very gentle and soft-spoken.

Whenever teenage girls and corporate CEOs covet the same new technology, something extraordinary is happening.

Whenever societies do well, they believe that there is something in their cultural DNA that made it happen.

Whenever I'm in the U.K., people say I have an American accent. Which is, obviously, funny.

The first thing I do whenever I go to Thailand is seek out the closest restaurant or stall selling mango-and-sticky rice: it's a little hillock of glutinous rice drenched in lashings of coconut milk and served with fresh mango.

There's inherent cultural imbalance whenever you're translating from Chinese to English. Educated Chinese readers are expected not only to know about all the Chinese references - history, language, culture, all this stuff - but to be well-versed in Western references as well.

Whenever you're specific with ethnicity or religion, people find reason to take offence.

I love to travel and go to dance classes whenever I get time.

Whenever I've seen shows or films set here, they just don't feel like the real Nashville to me.

Whenever I overhear someone talking in Telugu, be it in the market or any random place, I get excited.

That's the Indian in me - you must put spices on everything. As a kid, whenever we got sick, my mom would take milk and put turmeric in it. That was our medicine. That was the cure-all. Some people turn to Robitussin.

Everyone associates Hyderabad with biryani, so when I say I was born here, the first thing people ask is - 'When will you make Hyderabadi khana for us?' Whenever I make biryani, my friends come over.

Whenever I play Shakespeare, I keep thinking, 'how did this Englishman know so much about me?'

I'm addicted to 'Lonely Planet' guides. Naturally, I'll buy one whenever I take a trip somewhere, but it goes beyond that: I've begun buying them for cities and countries I just hope to visit one day.

Whenever I sing in a different language, I make sure I have a language expert sitting there with me to correct my diction and to understand what I am singing.

OK, well maybe I have to get back to Judaism. In the sense that if I look at me and my forebears forever stretching back to I don't know, whenever there's no sense of place and therefore no sense of nationality.

History is not everything, but it is a starting point. History is a clock that people use to tell their political and cultural time of day. It is a compass they use to find themselves on the map of human geography. It tells them where they are but, more importantly, what they must be.

It is important for all of us to appreciate where we come from and how that history has really shaped us in ways that we might not understand.

I come from a background where you don't show off the good things you do. It's modesty.

A museum is a place where one should lose one's head.

Religion is part of the human make-up. It's also part of our cultural and intellectual history. Religion was our first attempt at literature, the texts, our first attempt at cosmology, making sense of where we are in the universe, our first attempt at health care, believing in faith healing, our first attempt at philosophy.