Quotes About Culture

Education, in its broadest sense, is the means of this social continuity of life.

What we do every day - whether you live in Mexico, the United States, Russia, China can have a very negative impact on an entire way of life for an entire people far away from that source

Watching young Afghan skaters in the film 'Skateistan' made me realize why I've spent my entire life as a skateboarder.

We have lost the art of living, and in the most important science of all, the science of daily life, the science of behavior, we are complete ignoramuses. We have psychology instead.

Politicians need to stop the violence because it has become a way of life in Jamaica. It's the thing to do - be violent in Jamaica.

Art is the response of the living to life. It is therefore the record left behind by civilization.

Our cultural dilemma has nothing to do with children who don't read very well. It lies instead in the difficulty of finding a way to restore meaning and purpose to modern life.

I don't think of myself as a Negro. I'm a Southerner. I just like the Southern way of life.

I used to think that music was like lace upon a garment, nice to have but not necessary. I have come to believe that music is absolutely essential to our community life.

I come from Somalia. We start working young, and we understand that kind of life. I would be bored to death not doing anything creative.

While so much of our economic life is thriving, too much of our moral life is still stagnating. As a people, we need to reaffirm our faith.

The mass production of distraction is now as much a part of the American way of life as the mass production of automobiles.

You want the good life? You live where white people live, you go to school where white people go to school, and you shop where white people shop.

No one really likes Switzerland, except those who prefer cleanliness to life.

[Languages] became a tool that served me my whole life.

In art as in life, some things need no translation.

The most fateful change that unfolded during the past three decades was not an increase in greed. It was the expansion of markets, and of market values, into spheres of life where they don't belong.

OH MY GOD! In Thailand, they've got the spiciest food I've ever had in my life!

A contrast between country and city, as fundamental ways of life, reaches back into classical times.

All my life I have prayed to God that I should remain religiously orthodox, culturally conservative, politically liberal and economically pragmatic.

In a culture that relentlessly promotes avarice and excess as the good life, a person happy doing his own work is usually considered an eccentric, if not a subversive.

Sport is an important part of the Australian psyche. Anybody who thinks that sport is not part of the fabric of Australian life misunderstands this country quite dramatically.

I'm not sure if you can blame everything on the American way of life, but the United States are big. So, if you have a lot of people there, the percentage of stupid people is bound to be higher.

It was Christianity, with its heartfelt resentment against life, that first made something unclean of sexuality: it threw filth on the origin, on the essential fact of our life.