Quotes About Culture

The people of Chicago are a proud people - and for good reason.

The only place I've ever been where people were as proud about their city as people are in Chicago is Florence, Italy, where I lived for three years.

I'm proud to be from Philadelphia.

Be very proud of your name and where you come from. It's so important. Say it loud and clear for everybody to hear.

You must never call it the Shetlands. Islanders are proud and can be prickly about the name: it's either Shetland or the Shetland Islands.

People should feel proud about the music that we have in our country, and that's my objective.

I'm a proud Gujarati and it makes me very happy that Gujarati movies are coming up with great content.

My mother's proud of where she's from, and her history, and her past, and same with my dad. I have roots in Africa. Like, I am from Africa as well as from Germany, and I am very proud of that.

I live in the part of Bosnia-Herzegovina where we are the only Croatians, and we are the proudest in the world.

We are trying to prove that the blues lives on forever and anybody in this place can sing the blues.

English, once accepted as an international language, is no more secure than French has proved to be as the one and only accepted language of diplomacy or as Latin has proved to be as the international language of science.

I have always believed that cinema has no language and 'Dead End' has proved it so.

Audiences want great story telling; it's why white people watch my show 'Black in America.' It's why black people watch 'Latina in America.' All of that is statistically shown and proven but it was because it was good story telling about people who were outsiders.

Proverbs may not improperly be called the philosophy of the common people.

We love everyone. We appreciate the support. It has helped us; it has been noted. It has been needed, and it just proves that Slipknot is not a band: we are a culture.

Today, the smartphone in your pocket has a high-quality digital camera. Everyone - not just artists - is a photographer, and the explosion of photos taken annually proves it.

Film festivals are important, as they often provide an opportunity to look at a film from a fresh perspective.

Capitalism is characterized by an entire cultural mindset, in that 'exchange relationships, that of buying and selling, have permeated most of the society.

Emotions are the complex conjunction of physiological arousal, perceptual mechanisms, and interpretive processes; they are thus situated at the threshold where the noncultural is encoded in culture, where body cognition, and culture converge and merge.

Culture cannot be understood in terms of probabilities. To understand culture is to understand, in Michael Schudson's words, the social significance of the statistically insignificant, as well as the seamless web of meanings people draw on to make sense of social situations.

Vigorous public ball scratching is common in the combat-arms side of the Marine Corps, even among high-level officers in the midst of briefings.

I was worried about my own vagina. It needed a context of other vaginas-- a community, a culture of vaginas. There's so much darkness and secrecy surrounding them-- like the Bermunda Triangle.

In the United States, the last recorded clitoridectomy for curing masturbation was performed in 1948--on a five year old girl.

In the dying world I come from, quotation is a national vice.