Quotes About Culture

Mythology is a subjective truth. Every culture imagines life a certain way.

Culture is just a shambling zombie that repeats what it did in life; bits of it drop off, and it doesn't appear to notice.

In France, older women are considered sensual, and they don't have to mask the lines and wrinkles and erase every sign of their life on earth to be attractive and get laid.

Tulsa has world-class opera and Starbucks, and a religious conservatism that rules public life.

It can be demonstrated from history that no society has ever survived after its family life deteriorated.

I'm crazy about Israel. It's full of life.

All my life I have had a certain idea of France.

Americans, it seems to me, tend to protect their children from the harshness of life, in their interest. That's not the way my people rear their children. They let them experience the world as it is.

You can't just read the Koran to understand Muslim life. You have to look at history, at personalities, at economics, and so on.

I've always been really hot on westerns. All my life growing up, cowboy, cowboy, cowboy.

Americans have grown impatient with the relentless politicizing of every area of life.

I had heard blues and jazz all my life but I was never aware that it was associated with nightclubs and drinking.

Despite the theories traditionally taught in high-school social studies, the truth is: the more primitive the society, the more leisured its way of life.

His vices were the vices of his time and culture, but his virtues transcended the milieu of his life.

As I moved to less and less diverse places in my life, I realized that white people dont talk about race amongst themselves!

There are as many ways of living a good life as there are people living lives.

What nutrition and reproduction are to physiological life, education is to social life.

There's the inherent value of the arts in terms of what that does for the quality of life and culture. The arts - in my case theater, play-writing - is all about community.

I grew up my whole life in Ireland and obviously sound very, very Irish. I feel like it's just one of those things that just charms the socks off of people.

Anime has sent me all over the world, introducing me to people who have touched my life in indescribably profound ways.

The greatest books in Russian literature are satires. Gogol's Dead Souls, for example, is a very over-the-top satire about life in Russia. I think it's the thing we do best.

Television and comic books are, and continue to be, probably the biggest influence in my life. It's the biggest influence on everybody's life.

I wanted a bookstore because the book business is the business of life.

Novels, except as aids to masturbation, play no part in contemporary life.