Quotes About Cultural shift

We have long passed the Victorian Era when asterisks were followed after a certain interval by a baby.

Successive generations of middle-class parents used to foist their own favourite books on their children. But some time in the late Eighties it began to wane - not because children had lost interest in adorable animals but because most of it was available on useful, pacifying video.

I actually did not touch any type of computer until I came to America. I knew computers existed, yes, but I didn't have access to them. In the Philippines, I did have video games.

Games have has as much an impact on Hollywood filmmaking as MTV music videos did.

You have to remember, videos were on the rise back when we did 'Take On Me.'

We want to bring better products to Vietnam. My hope is through changes in lifestyle and the products we consume, it will affect the people and change the way they are thinking.

I'm from the Vietnam generation.

I think the films we see, the Hollywood films, which are basically entertainment, will still be there, but they'll be in a totally different category. People won't take them seriously. They'll kind of end up the way comic books have. A side view of things.

In those days men were the ones who usually conferred blessings. Yet here we have a woman proclaiming a blessing upon another woman. Wow. Even from the womb, Jesus was changing the culture.

1966 and 1968 were a world removed from each other in the political and cultural life of the United States . . .

In the sixties, a power struggle started which still hasn't been won.

It seems as if an age of genius must be succeeded by an age of endeavour riot and extravagance by cleanliness and hard work.

Put everybody in the company to work to accomplish the transformation. The transformation is everybody's job.

Some miners would have 20 pints after a hard day in the mine. Now that we sit behind computers all day, this is down to 18 or 19 pints.

You know, one of these things that happened in the '60s and '70s was this confluence of, sort of, a counter-culture with computer culture.

That was the peak. I just knew it was modern, not traditional culture. I could be cool

A decline in courage may be the most striking feature that an outside observer notices in the West today.

The whole dating ritual was different when I was a kid. Girls got pinned, not nailed.

every year the church in the United States draws closer and closer to the situation faced by the New Testament church: an embattled minority living in a pluralistic, pagan society.

Grandpa has presided over the neighborhood as it went from low-income haven for immigrant families to yuppie enclave.

I'd been slowly robbed of my sense that I lived in a culture that still valued reason above unreason, civility above rote invective, which had once been the case.

I avoid the public because the English public is too aggressive these days for me.

When I was a kid and putting out my first records, there was a lot made out of the fact that the '50s/'60s generation was so dominant.

I'm drawn to that period, the '50s.