Cultural Quotes · Page 4

Our increasing ability to alter our biology and open up the processes of life is now fueling a new cultural war.

— Gregory Stock

Obama has presided over sweeping cultural advances, particularly in the rights of gay and lesbian Americans.

— Joy Reid

I don't often go to a place just to check out all the cultural sites of a city.

— Joe Sacco

What cultural DNA remains from those first Puritan forays onto American soil may be our love of a fresh start.

— Nancy Gibbs

Healing requires a legitimated, credible and culturally appropriate system.

— Mildred Blaxter

No matter what your cultural sophistication or what language you speak, everyone can understand images.

— Tibor Kalman

An acceptance of your cultural inheritance, and at the same time a dislike of it, is a building block of good art.

— Carey Mercer

Whenever societies do well, they believe that there is something in their cultural DNA that made it happen.

— Fareed Zakaria

We have cultural expectations that everyone needs a dining room, yet they're only used three times a year. But if I put…

— Dan Phillips

According to various polls conducted, the single most important issue in last week's election was not the Iraq War, not the War…

— John Doolittle

Transience is what is normal. The problem is that we are busily trying to create political structures and cultural expressions that deny…

— Mohsin Hamid

Tower Records was a place to meet your friends, your co-workers or a place to meet new friends who shared a common…

— Colin Hanks

In 1986, human nature in America started to change. That year, 'The Oprah Winfrey Show,' based in Chicago, became nationally syndicated, and…

— Lee Siegel

The message of body acceptance built on Jennifer Lawrence's soundbites only empowers those who are willing to ignore the fact that her…

— Jennifer Armintrout

We have a disturbing cultural appetite for novelty, and it seems to me wrong each new laureate should dislodge the ideas of…

— Louise Gluck

Most of the more celebrated names among African-American authors, poets, and artists are known to the world because of their association with…

— Aberjhani

It's so interesting that when I finished 'The X-Files' in 2002, the - call it the political and cultural climate in America…

— Chris Carter

That President Mohammad Khatami's policies have been blocked is the bitterest incident in the contemporary Iranian history. This means that the wishes…

— Abdolkarim Soroush

There is no time and space in the digital world. People chat and collaborate through social networks. Cultural icons garner millions of…

— Eduardo Paes

When you work with web design companies in San Francisco, you end up with a bunch of twenty-somethings who have their own…

— Brenda Laurel

In the United States, nobody needs to remind people of their own role or their own power in creating the future they…

— Gianna Angelopoulos-Daskalaki

I love traditional music. But in any culture around the world, there is the historic and cultural music and everything that's been…

— Robbie Robertson

A culture-bearing book, like a mule, bears the culture on its back. No one should sit down to write one deliberately. Culture-bearing…

— Robert M. Pirsig

Measuring success in cultural diplomacy - the use of education, creative expression in any form, or people-to-people exchange to increase understanding across…

— Cynthia P. Schneider

“In Japan, first names are only for who you're married to, or if you're being rude,' the watchmaker explained.”

— Natasha Pulley

If the cultural elite has its way, the U.S. will be much more like Europe

— Peter L. Berger

I grew up in the suburbs and basically associate the suburbs with cultural death.

— Billy Corgan

“It has become a cultural norm in Jewish families for parents to bring up their children to value wealth.”

— H.W. Charles

Personal adornment is the only cultural form that everybody in the world takes part in.

— A. A. Gill

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

— Pascal Boyer

I'm a big believer that science is part of a larger cultural thing. Science is not all by itself.

— Sean M. Carroll

Chinese people today have strong demand for culture, but we need effective supply, and China needs innovative cultural products.

— Wang Jianlin

I grew up in a very cultural household, but part of our culture is that we don't really take photos.

— Tan France

Cultural issues can be handled by states, and they can be handled by school boards and local libraries and city commissions.

— Doug Burgum

When cultural change succeeds, it succeeds because it's so embedded in what we do that we don't have to think about.

— Harvey V. Fineberg

The Russian people have their own cultural code, their own tradition.

— Vladimir Putin

Tourists as well as natives want to see cultural achievements - whether it's the Banaue Terraces, the old churches or museums.

— F. Sionil Jose

“Mannequins are both a reflection of our social norms and and a beacon for our ideals.”

— Brandy Isadora

“Trying to build the world’s largest telescope atop the most sacred mountain in Hawaii is a cultural violation to the Hawaiian’s.”

— Steven Magee

Anytime you can be a part of something that hopefully tries to make a cultural contribution, I love the idea of that.

— Matthew Settle