Culture Quotes · Page 166

I believe that reforms will not really take hold if they do not gradually come into the culture of the people.

— Mario Monti

The arts and humanities teach us who we are and what we can be. They lie at the very core of the…

— Ronald Reagan

Man is born a barbarian, and only raises himself above the beast by culture.

— Baltasar Gracian

I'm of Nigerian descent, from the Yoruba tribe. Names are very significant in that culture. It basically states your purpose in life.

— Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje

Innovative cultures transparently document spending, admit mistakes, and ask how they can do better.

— Joe Lonsdale

World peace and brotherhood are based on a common understanding of the contributions and cultures of all races and creeds

— Mary McLeod Bethune

Unfortunately, in our culture, one person can write a letter to the network, and they shut something down. It's unfortunate.

— RuPaul

[Cultural departments] don't care about culture. Maybe they're the furthest from the people who understand culture.

— Ai Weiwei

Punk is no longer a subculture or a counterculture in any way. It's totally just a small reflecting mirror for the same…

— Geoff Rickly

Instead of kids just hearing about beads and baskets and fringe, and about what 'was' and 'were,' we present Native American culture…

— Buffy Sainte-Marie

I quite often feel that my greatest task as a father is to raise children who love what is good, true, and…

— Rod Dreher

I watch a lot of bad TV. I spend my entire day reading and writing, and after dinner my idea of fun…

— Nathaniel Philbrick

I think of digital as a means to an end: How do I service and get more loyal customers, how do I…

— Ana Patricia Botin

Kabul was a thriving cosmopolitan city with its vibrant artistic, intellectual and cultural life. There were poets, musicians, and writers. There was…

— Khaled Hosseini

I guess my overall life plan is to think about issues that concern me and try to use culture generally to make…

— Alain de Botton

Food is a big part of my culture, so everyone knows how to cook. When I came to America and asked a…

— Isabella Rossellini

Who could deny that privacy is a jewel? It has always been the mark of privilege, the distinguishing feature of a truly…

— Phyllis McGinley

The die is cast in Canada: there are two ethnic and linguistic groups; each is too strong and too deeply rooted in…

— Pierre Trudeau

You can't be Eazy-E and not move a certain way, basically. So, I studied the culture of it, and also, one of…

— Jason Mitchell

'WASP' is the only ethnic term that is in fact a term of class, apart from redneck, which is another word for…

— Christopher Hitchens

I could name a few songs and say exactly what summer they came out and what boy I thought I was in…

— Ann Beattie

We must turn back to God. We have thrown God out of our homes, schools, colleges and universities and the vacuum so…

— Dada J P Vaswani

I've had different opportunities in my life, but I've tried to maintain the spirit of an amateur. Our culture roots everything in…

— Ethan Hawke

We must destroy all which in the present school answers to the organization of constraint, the artificial surroundings by which children are…

— Francesc Ferrer i Guardia

The dignity of the Constitution should be safeguarded in education, language, culture, authority, economy and administration.

— M. K. Stalin

Nikki is obsessed with France and its culture, so it made total sense to propose there.

— Artem Chigvintsev

Day after day, we culture our minds with the deep silence of our own Being.

— Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

“Now more than ever we are all becoming more aware about the need to conserve our precious living heritage.”

— Steve Irwin

Asia's culture has planted its roots all over the world, and also has roots in my personal culture.

— Carla Sozzani

Our culture, language, history, and values are vital to uniting us as a nation.

— Bobby Jindal

I hate these questions - I don't like talking about this stuff [popular culture], because it's so... to me, it's so ordinary.

— Edward Snowden

The cultures we can look at had already grasped the essential unity of nature. No board of gods can survive that knowledge.

— Jack McDevitt

For the American culture to evolve and include Asians is so amazing.

— Mirai Nagasu

If you want to have a creative culture, you can't get it by reading books. You get it by example.

— Barbara Corcoran

I'm homeless, in a funny way. My culture I think is completely rooted in German 19th century music I suppose.

— Hans Zimmer

I'm not a feminist. I hail men, I love men. I celebrate American male culture, and beer, and bars and muscle cars...

— Lady Gaga

Even the models we see in magazines wish they could look like their own images.

— Anonymous

Much of our highly valued cultural heritage has been acquired at the cost of sexuality

— Sigmund Freud

“A nation which expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, expects that which never was and never will…

— Thomas Jefferson

“In people’s lives and worldviews, concerns about economics, race, gender, class, and culture all blend together.”

— Hillary Rodham Clinton