Culture Quotes · Page 116

Once a story is set to a particular city, language and culture, the rest just follows.

— Rockline Venkatesh

Customs, traditions, laws should be flexible, within good reason, if that is what it takes to make our democracy work.

— John Lewis

Forgive him, for he believes that the customs of his tribe are the laws of nature!

— George Bernard Shaw

“Excellence is a custom at the land of greatness, it drives our culture.”

— Anyaele Sam Chiyson

I'm a culture person when I'm working, so my downtime is beach time: sand, surf and a barbecue.

— John Torode

No people come into possession of a culture without having paid a heavy price for it.

— James A. Baldwin

Hip-Hop isn't just music. It also a spiritual movement of blacks! You can't just call hip-hop a trend.

— Lauryn Hill

Selfless acts are a source of profound meaning for your self and your life.

— Ron Kaufman

My dad played guitar, and he taught me enough to play some Beatles' songs. But primarily, I was a bookworm. I loved…

— K. Flay

I think that's the most dangerous kind of sexism: People don't realize it's there and we end up surreptitiously accepting it because…

— Natalie Dormer

Today, Labour has a disruptive economic narrative - that Britain needs fundamental change in its market structure and culture to compete in…

— David Miliband

Culture, and the way guys fight, and the way guys go to prepare and the way guys go about their business is…

— Jason Kelce

Through eight years, 'How I Met Your Mother' has mastered the art of leading-edge comedy, emotional water-cooler moments, and pop culture catch-phrases.

— Nina Tassler

I fell in love with wine in Napa Valley. I fell in love with the culture and the restaurants and the way…

— Charles Woodson

Chinese culture in general is not very religious. Confucianism is more a code of ethics than a religion, and ancestor worship is…

— David Henry Hwang

I think, what I want to say is that yes, my ideas have travelled into popular culture they also emerged from popular…

— Judith Butler

We know that art is connected with the land, with its salt, with its smell, that outside of national culture there is…

— Ilya Ehrenburg

To all of the artists that attend the Grammys: Stop accepting the invitation to be the upset of the year and demand…

— Steve Stoute

When women's sexuality is imagined to be passive or "dirty," it also means that men's sexuality is automatically positioned as aggressive and…

— Jessica Valenti

Like a versatile baller, George Dohrmann swings seamlessly from position to position: investigative journalist, social critic, gifted storyteller. The result is a…

— L. Jon Wertheim

Egoic consciousness is the one we all normally operate with, until we are told there is something else! Every culture teaches egoic…

— Richard Rohr

Her voice was slightly accented but her French was perfect. Someone who'd not just learned the language but loved it. And it…

— Louise Penny

There must be a rule of thumb in pop-culture archaeology that states that the allure of any topic is inversely related to…

— Paul Di Filippo

One task of literature is to formulate questions and construct counterstatements to the reigning pieties. And even when art is not oppositional,…

— Susan Sontag

“It's because there are too many people who want to stop us having fun. That's the reason.”

— Alexander McCall Smith

Books were despised by the Viking Tribes, as they were seen as a horrible civilizing influence and a threat to the barbarian…

— Cressida Cowell

“[T]he choice of human groupings for cultural comparisons is not a natural or scientific choice, but a political one.”

— Pascal Boyer

A culture of discipline is not a principle of business, it is a principle of greatness.

— Anonymous

Learning to take hold of one's life is very difficult in a culture that values property over life.

— Haki R. Madhubuti

I still think you people need to be curious [in order to absorb the culture]. You need to search Uzbekistani pop music.

— Ayshay

If the culture is so all pervasive that you can’t think outside of it, how are you making genuine choices?

— Monica Ali

In a lot of ways I think food is starting to take the place in culture that rock and roll took 30…

— Jonathan Gold

“La culture, c'est comme la confiture, moins on en a, plus on l'étale.”

— Pierre Desproges

I know what it takes to win, and I've helped lead teams to winning cultures.

— Jimmer Fredette

As God is continually being marginalized and dismissed in the culture, you will continue to see evil proliferate.

— Tony Evans

Why create churches for 50-year-olds and let culture have the students?

— Andy Stanley

To be counter to the culture, you are by definition willfully and actively ignoring the culture, i.e., reality.

— Rob Lowe

I loved my time in Japan, and I am grateful to have had the chance to live in Japan and embrace the…

— Freddie Ljungberg

What we can see depends heavily on what our culture has trained us to look for.

— Nell Irvin Painter

Civilization had too many rules for me, so I did my best to rewrite them.

— Bill Cosby