Culture Quotes · Page 192

A tablecloth restaurant is still one of the great rewards of civilization.

— Harry Golden

Ours was a family of engineers with no political affiliation; art and culture were the only things that we discussed at home.

— Roopa Ganguly

Something happens when two people from the same country, sharing the same heritage, meet and connect.

— Costa Ronin

I never examined my role in male culture, in hyper masculinity. I never examined it, nobody ever called me on it.

— Nate Parker

Our enemy is by tradition our savior, in preventing us from superficiality.

— Joyce Carol Oates

You need Black [people] sometimes to understand things about Black culture.

— Russell Simmons

What a culture we live in, we are swimming in an ocean of information, and drowning in ignorance.

— Richard Paul Evans

“Tradition is a kind of mental illness with a clear symptom of repetition”

— Mehmet Murat ildan

I'm nervous about our civic culture. I'm not sure the Internet is largely the cause of it. It's certainly the cause of…

— Antonin Scalia

Well, I don't think anyone now would say that they're painting the state of the culture of America. I think that's too…

— Donald Judd

“On the exoteric level the traditions are irreconcilable. On the esoteric, experiential level of the heart reigns an eloquent, reverential silence.”

— Frederick Franck

I understand what it's like to come with your family, and to uproot yourself and come to another culture. You need a…

— Emma Thompson

I've not been anywhere in Central or South America before. The closest I've been is Cancun and Cabo in Mexico. But I…

— Alesha Dixon

Everything is this distorted mishmash of pop culture that pulls from this era and that era and is just thrown at the…

— Willis Earl Beal

Until he [man] has become fully human, until he learns to conduct himself as a member of the earth, he will continue…

— Henry Miller

We need to have a culture that says 'the less energy you can use to be comfortable, the better off you are…

— Roscoe Bartlett

I'd also hope that my liberal friends, who find in this pope a critic of what they're pleased to call "culture-warrior" Catholics,…

— George Weigel

The principal thing is the question of how our culture views age: that old is ugly Just think of Rodin, how he…

— John Coplans

In the yogic tradition, this principle of using intense effort to burn through life's distractions is called Tapas. It's another Sanskrit word,…

— Russell Simmons

I think that's something that we as black people in this country have been robbed of. I compare it to my brother's…

— Eric Reid

Doctors and scientists, being part of that two-sex culture, have done everything they can to try to force people who are in-between…

— Alice Dreger

“These two trends—the decline of communal institutions and the expansion of corporate brands in our culture—have had an inverse, seesaw-like relationship to…

— Naomi Klein

There is no genuine democracy without an informed public. While there are no guarantees that a critical education will prompt individuals to…

— Henry Giroux

Seeking the Cave is part travelogue, part literary history, and part spiritual journey. James Lenfestey is a lively and entertaining tour guide.…

— Chase Twichell

Reading, writing, teaching, learning, are all activities aimed at introducing civilizations to each other.

— Carlos Fuentes

When I was a kid, toe dancing and toe shoes had a meaning in our culture as a serious kind of art.

— Twyla Tharp

If you know your ceremonies and culture you'll know where the offense takes place

— Floyd Red Crow Westerman

I'm saying us - our culture, our race, our people - we need to do better.

— YG

“Culture. [...] That most people don't do what we tell them to do. They do what they can get away with.”

— Anonymous

I think the global mass culture is either consciously or unconsciously sensitized to how vulnerable we are here on the planet.

— Brian Grazer

Doing less is not being lazy. Don't give in to a culture that values personal sacrifice over personal productivity.

— Tim Ferriss

We are fighting misogynists in every culture. My solution is to listen to the women in each community and amplify their voices.

— Mona Eltahawy

If a man is fortunate he will, before he dies, gather up as much as he can of his civilized heritage and…

— Will Durant

I don't relate to what is seen as 'Arab culture.' I relate to what I explore myself, what is around me.

— Yasmine Hamdan

music alone can abolish differences of language or culture between two people and evoke something indestructible within them.

— Irene Nemirovsky

You are the person who determines what you do. That's a big responsibility. Make the most of it.

— Ron Kaufman

Positive culture comes from being mindful, and respecting your coworkers, and being empathetic.

— Biz Stone

It's wonderful to learn about new cultures and to be able to travel easily to so many countries.

— Stephen A. Schwarzman

In south India, the film culture is deeply rooted. That makes it very professional.

— Atul Kulkarni

Being depressed in black culture is not a thing. I just decided not to tell nobody, not even my friends.

— Amine