Quotes About Culture

The value of culture is its effect on character. It avails nothing unless it ennobles and strengthens that. Its use is for life. Its aim is not beauty but goodness.

A nation's life is about as long as its reverential memory

Unnecessary customs live a brutally short life in America.

The life of the ancient Greeks and Romans has profoundly influenced our own, and yet the ways in which they affect us do not present themselves on the surface of our ordinary experiences.

There's a real self-serving element to hip-hop that threatens its life span.

My time in Moscowmade a man of memade me an artistthere was a reality and a brutality of life that I think was very important, as a young American, for me to see.

I suppose in a way most of my characters are non-consumers, not terribly interested in all the little baubles and artifacts of contemporary life.

Walls, towns, rules, and day-to-day life doesn't make us civilized ... That's organization and ritual. Civilization lives in our hearts and heads or it doesn't exist at all.

We moved up to Oregon when I was eight, and I think the radical absence of Jewish life here might have strangely made me feel more Jewish. It's a contextual thing I guess.

I have been to Turkey almost every summer holiday of my life and pretty much only on summer holidays, which makes me a very shallow Turk indeed.

I'm pretty good with languages. I know a bit of French and actually want to live in France some day so that I can get fluent. I think it'd be tragic to go through life only knowing one language.

I felt really strongly about this script [ Everybody Loves Somebody] because, like you said, it's a very specific way of life.

New York is a great place to be fed in the arts. The arts in general are a large part of my life. The city was my postgraduate course.

I was born in Scotland and have lived there all my life. I speak conversational Cantonese with my dad when I'm at home, and very basic Mandarin.

I have been painting white people for much longer in my life than I have done for colored people.

My mom is a singer and my Dad introduced me to bands such as Zeppelin and the Stones so music has always played a huge part in my life.

Without art, we're handicapped, and living a stifled, barren existence.

I've been around jazz and jazz musicians most of my life.

Christians were regarded as separated from society and therefore destructive of the Greco-Roman way of life.

What I like about Britain is that I can live a normal life here.

It is a sobering thought that Gomer Pyle and the Beverly Hillbillies may be among our chief interstellar emissaries.

The artist injects the spirit of life into a culture.

Celebrity life and media culture are probably the most overbearing pop-cultural conditions that we as young people have to deal with, because it forces us to judge ourselves.

The blurring of fantasy and reality is something that the Japanese herald in their life, in their day-to-day commercialism.