Culture Quotes · Page 110

Contrary to our culture, the Biblical doctrine of Grace humbles us without degrading us, and elevates us without inflating us.

— Kenneth Boa

As we honor and take time to appreciate the arts we expand the beauty and culture of society.

— Senoraroy

“For the Arab, the past does not merely live. The past defines the present.”

— Davis Bunn

The sunlight that has brought life and healing to you has brought stripes and death to me. This Fourth of July is…

— Frederick Douglass

One book calls to another unexpectedly, creating alliances across different cultures and centuries.

— Alberto Manguel

NOISE, n. A stench in the ear. Undomesticated music. The chief product and authenticating sign of civilization.

— Ambrose Bierce

“Healthcare culture is a system of shared values and behaviors that focus caregiver activity on improving the patient experience.”

— James Merlino

When English football started to integrate more with European football, England started to share the Latin culture more.

— Mauricio Pochettino

At certain historic moments, grandparents took on childrearing responsibilities. In many cultures, they still do. Chinese grandparents who are able to retire…

— Erica Jong

I will not perform in this city as long as the blatant targeting of black culture and minorities congregating is acceptable common…

— Illmaculate

If the pros at Sun had had a chance to fix Java, the world would be a much more pleasant place. This…

— Alan Kay

I have been contemplating the place and meaning of love in our lives and culture for years. When a subject attracts my…

— Bell Hooks

I feel like Africans are too often portrayed as people on the National Geographic channel: the image is of an African man…

— Djimon Hounsou

“Every woman is a culture. Daarom is iedere vrouw van nature een meesterwerk dat niet vernietigd kan worden, en al helemaal niet…

— Anonymous

A lot of what I do around Houston is to find ways to lift people through literacy. It's become part of our…

— Neil Bush

Nothing that I can do or say will change the structure of the universe. But maybe, by raising my voice, I can…

— Albert Einstein

That's one thing brands are understanding is, I'm the blogger who's not writing about fashion. I'm not writing about beauty. I'm not…

— Luvvie Ajayi

It is not a nature cure, a system of faith healing, or a physical culture, or a medical treatment, or a semi-occult…

— John Dewey

Centuries from now our great-great-great-grandchildren will look back at us with amazement at how we could allow such a precious achievement of…

— Werner Herzog

We live in a culture that insists on "moving on" (even while our loyalty to and love of the franchise and the…

— Laura Mullen

This is why God created so many different religions: to be training grounds to make a path for every people, culture, custom,…

— Sun Myung Moon

You Australian guys have your own way of speaking about music, you guys have your own way of enjoying music. You certainly…

— Mr. Carmack

We changed the name from Sex Gang Children to Culture Club because Jon Moss, our drummer, went to L.A. on holiday and…

— Boy George

What we call a financial crisis is really at its core a crisis of management, and not just a crisis of management,…

— Henry Mintzberg

I didn't want my music to be seen as examples of an electronic culture; I just wanted them to be thought of…

— Paul Lansky

Because I was raised in a Christian culture I never considered myself to be a totally free human being.

— Anonymous

I'm in love with the markets of the world. It's a photograph of a city, a culture.

— Alain Ducasse

If I have advocated the cause of the Negro, it is not because I am a Negro, but because I am a…

— Frederick Douglass

Avatar is a total nerd thing, and yet our popular culture has somehow made all that stuff acceptable.

— Daniel Clowes

American sci-fi has fallen into the doldrums in part because of the anti-science sentiment that's so prevalent in our culture lately.

— Nick Sagan

You know when you eat too many sweets and get diabetes? Paparazzi are the diabetes of materialistic culture.

— Shirley MacLaine

“Culture may even be described simply as that which makes life worth living.”

— T. S. Eliot

In this Western world that we have, culture risks being [only] a form of entertainment.

— Shirin Neshat

I am very happy that TV is going back to where we belong and what we believe in, the traditions.

— Sudha Chandran

Experiencing different cultures is one of the best things a human being can do. It puts your whole world into perspective.

— Stephanie Gilmore

We need to restore the full meaning of that old word, duty. It is the other side of rights.

— Pearl S. Buck

It's that invasive and puerile curiosity to feed a tabloid culture. I don't subscribe to it.

— John Byrne

I'm incredibly nostalgic for the '80s, because I think that's when Geek Culture really kicked in to high gear.

— Ernest Cline

America... where law and custom alike are based upon the dreams of spinsters...

— Bertrand Russell

Those who attempt to evangelize the culture by imitating its forms must beware lest the culture evangelize them.

— Gene Veith