Quotes About Culture

I have never denied my background or my culture. I have taught my child to embrace her Mexican heritage, to love my first language, Spanish, to learn about Mexican history, music, folk art, food, and even the Mexican candy I grew up with.

Getting degree only makes someone literate to the society or the nation. But sometime their uncultured acts make them illiterate. Cause they have uneducated mind. Their minds have never got enlightenment with the true education that supposed to make them better person.

Names, once they are in common use, quickly become mere sounds, their etymology being buried, like so many of the earth's marvels, beneath the dust of habit.

The idea of the sacred is quite simply one of the most conservative notions in any culture, because it seeks to turn other ideas - uncertainty, progress, change - into crimes.

There is a widespread difficulty in the Muslim world, which has to do with how the people are taught about examining their own history. A whole range of stuff has been placed off limits.

I was 21 in 1968, so I'm as much a child of the '60s as is possible to be. In those years the subject of religion had really almost disappeared the idea that religion was going to be a major force in the life of our societies, in the West anyway, would have seemed absurd in 1968.

No people whose word for 'yesterday' is the same as their word for 'tomorrow' can be said to have a firm grip on the time.

Come mai l'Italia, che grazie agli italiani d'un tempo si meritò il nome di 'giardino d'Europa', sta facendo scempio di se stessa? Quello che sta accadendo è un'involuzione culturale passeggera o una profonda mutazione antropologica? Siamo accecati solo davanti al paesaggio, o anche alla tutela del patrimonio culturale, alle esigenze della scuola, dell'università, della ricerca, dell'arte e della scienza, della musica, insomma della cultura?

Noi, che vediamo le nostre città dilagare e dissolversi in anonime periferie-sprawl, e sappiamo che in quell'ambiente senz'anima cresceranno milioni di cittadini, nessuno dei quali saprà davvero che cosa è (meglio: che cosa fu) il paesaggio italiano fino a ieri celebrato. Siamo, ci sentiamo fuori luogo. Siamo spaesati, in senso sia metaforico che letterale.

It wasn't a big deal to marry your half-brother in those times; there just weren't enough people on earth for people to start getting picky about incest.

Poetry transcends the nation-state. Poetry transcends government. It brings the traditional concept of power to its knees. I have always believed poetry to be an eternal conversation in which the ancient poets remain contemporary, a conversation inviting us into other languages and cultures even as poetry transcends language and culture, returning us again and again to primal rhythms and sounds.

In a pluralistic culture . . . every individual must create a private mythological system. I must discover within myself the Garden of Eden from which I am exiled and the New Jeruselem toward which I am journeying. And must bear the burden of being my own redeemer, my own Christ.

You pay a whore to make you feel like a man, you fund a philharmonic to make yourself feel like a refined man.

The perceived wisdom is that people do not go in large numbers to black-and-white movies anymore - which is a great shame, but I'd love to make a black-and-white movie one day.

An organization's values tell everyone how they will act inside the walls of the organization. You, as a leader, cannot tolerate any action that goes against those values.

Consequences Culturally, we have drifted away from accountability in this country for at least the last generation and perhaps longer. The consequences have been more dire than most people realize. —Richard Chambers

Dolly's joy over the move was short-lived. She learned Charles Short had proposed to Kitty. And Kitty had accepted. They would be living both in Debhatta and in Calcutta. Dolly was dazed. "How did I not know?" she asked William and became more outspoken than ever. "How I detest India!" William

I am not from Venus. . . . I am from a small town on the Serbo-Croation border.

It's better to have a hole in your team than an asshole in your team!

Tears and laughter, they are so much Gaelic to me.

A Babylonish dialectWhich learned pedants much affect.

People care more about being thought to have taste than about being good, clever, or amiable.

As there can be no translation from one language into another which shall not scant the meaning somewhat, or enlarge upon it, so there is no language which can render thought without a jarring and a harshness somewhere.

a man should be just cultured enough to be able to look with suspicion upon culture at first, not second hand.