Quotes About Culture

I was going to be living there and I didn't want to sound like a foreigner all my life.

Religious faith is an important aspect of American culture and a fact of American political life.

Myths are so intimately bound to culture, time, and place that unless the symbols, the metaphors, are kept alive by constant recreation through the arts, the life just slips away from them.

Wine is one of the agreeable and essential ingredients of life

I was always attracted by the European way of life, but I am deeply Swedish.

To be of mixed blood is a great gift for a writer. I have one foot on tribal lands and one foot in middle-class life.

Life for the European is a career; for the American it is a hazard.

I'm of Nigerian descent, from the Yoruba tribe. Names are very significant in that culture. It basically states your purpose in life.

London has been used as the emblematic English city, but it's far from representative of what life in England is actually about.

I have stayed in south India all my life. English comes more naturally to me than Hindi.

A breath of our inspiration / Is the life of each generation.

Perhaps Singapore could learn from us a more relaxed way of life.

My dear girl, you must cultivate a taste for the finer things. Civilized pleasures give meaning to life.

Life is very important to Americans.

Suicide, moreover, was at the time in vogue in Paris: what more suitable key to the mystery of life for a skeptical society?

I had enjoyed life in Paris, and, taking all things into consideration, enjoyed it wholesomely.

For me, skateboarding is a lifestyle. I really don't know anything different. My life revolves around skating. If I wasn't a professional skateboarder, I'd still be skating every day.

We live not according to reason, but according to fashion.

In India, the films are not looked upon just as entertainment. They're a way of life.

The civilizing process has increased the distance between behavior and the impulse life of the animal body.

This is the line of life, this is the line of growth, and this is the line of well-being in India - to follow the track of religion.

The problem is we have to transcend cultural languages and fall into a phase with the communication systems that nature has placed all around us.

Life has become the ideology of its own absence.

The service of philosophy, of speculative culture, towards the human spirit, is to rouse, to startle it to a life of constant and eager observation.