Culture Quotes · Page 267

I don't think all buildings have to be iconic, but the history of the world has shown us that cultures build iconic…

— Frank Gehry

“associated with fireworks, parades, barbecues, carnivals, fairs, picnics, concerts, baseball games, family reunions, political speeches and ceremonies, and various other public and…

— Anonymous

Some rookies build bad habits and it's not until year three, four, five that they get to be part of a winning-type…

— Joe Harris

I grew up in - I personally grew up in a gun culture. I grew up in upstate New York where most…

— Stephen J. Dubner

Our society, our culture - the greatness of America - goes hand-in-hand with energy, and our leaders need to wake up. We…

— Rick Santelli

I’ve come to the point of view that for European-American society and culture to persist requires a European-American majority, and a clear…

— John Tanton

A cultivated mind is one to which the fountains of knowledge have been opened, and which has been taught, in any tolerable…

— John Stuart Mill

A residual sea of symbols which is shared by all mankind, usually accessed through dreams or altered states, and from which cultures…

— Carl Jung

I encourage people not to be passive consumers of music and of culture in general. And feeling like, yeah, you can enjoy…

— David Byrne

“The interest of initiation for an understanding of archaic mentality lies predominantly in its showing us that the true man-the spiritual man-is…

— Mircea Eliade

I grew up surrounded by all types of cultures - French, Indian, Arabic - a melting pot of cultures, sounds, foods, people,…

— DJ Snake

... How is it [, then] that the leaders of our society have seen fit to try to eliminate this one very…

— Alexander Shulgin

Chief among our gains must be reckoned this possibility of choice, the recognition of many possible ways of life, where other civilizations…

— Margaret Mead

The structure of my novels has nothing to do with the narrative mode of cinema. My novels would be very difficult to…

— Agustin Fernandez Mallo

“Civilizations are the generations of the racial soul. As family-rearing, and then writing, bound the generations together, handing down the lore of…

— Will Durant

For a long time Christianity has sewn its teachings into the fabric of Western culture. That was a good thing …. But…

— R. R. Reno

We are being swallowed up by the popular culture of the United States, but then the Americans are being swallowed up by…

— Northrop Frye

It's hard for me to accept the argument that millennials are not watching TV. I'm not one to believe that our culture…

— Nancy Dubuc

While I agree that embracing vibrancy and joy is an essential bulwark against the left's tendency towards energy-sapping endless meetings, pop culture…

— Ash Sarkar

Our state ceremonies have a religious foundation. We have compulsory religious education. And the Church should be a moral guardian. We have…

— Ann Widdecombe

“Customs tell a man who he is, where he belongs, what he must do. Better illogical customs than none; men cannot live…

— Robert A. Heinlein

Honestly, there's four years where I'm ignorant of my culture. Every now and then, I'll see a clip of something or hear…

— Jimmy Smits

I am a man who perceives life in a certain way, a man who rejects things that defecate on humankind, who rejects…

— Harry Belafonte

A lot of festivals on a worldwide basis that I am seeing, they're trying to multi-genre it. Like, they put a wild…

— Steve Lukather

Food serves two parallel purposes: it nourishes and it helps you remember. Eating and storytelling are inseparable-the saltwater is also tears; the…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

[About Jews] Among other nations, the vital problems are: a good crop, extension of the boundaries, strong armies, colonies; among us, if…

— I. L. Peretz

The narrative of so many fairy tales are timeless in so many different cultures, and they have been since the dawn of…

— Lily Cole

When you're part of hip-hop culture but you're a Christian, people want you to be either-or. Or they'll create a category for…

— Lecrae

My mom was a big Elvis fan and a general pop culture buff, and so I grew up in a house filled…

— Laurie Foos

Most of the monsters... are based on some sort of mythology. Every culture and even some geographical areas have monsters and mythology…

— Laurell K. Hamilton

France can never accept that it is no longer a dominating power in the world of culture. This is true both of…

— Adam Michnik

Often, these downplay the power of cultural imperialism - in that sense, playing the game of US interests - by reassuring us…

— Fredric Jameson

It is astounding how evolved and progressed India has become. It is holding on to its extraordinary rich culture and becoming global…

— Kenneth Cole

Men and women do not easily submit to a power that does not weave itself into the texture of their daily existence…

— Terry Eagleton

Sometimes there's a snobbery among literary types that these people don't really get it, but in a lot of ways they get…

— Irvine Welsh

If you look at pop culture as the main picture you see of black men, all these kind of threatening pictures and…

— Trip Lee

“These other cultures are not failed attempts to be us; they are unique manifestations of the spirit—other options, other visions of life…

— Wade Davis

There's a much bigger picture beyond surfing, its part of an ocean culture. Everything comes back to Mother Nature. Surfing is a…

— Tristan Prettyman

In our culture right now, I want to take on this notion of what a singular success means. We think success is…

— Mike Birbiglia

I've always loved black culture; I don't know any other way to put it. Since I was a kid I loved music…

— Robert Greene