Culture Quotes · Page 111

“In Japanese swordsmanship, it is not uncommon to speak of a unity of mind, body, and sword.”

— H.E. Davey

Tradition is a kind of mental illness with a clear symptom of repetitiveness.

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

I'm very empathic to the construction of masculinity within our culture and how we build these identities up.

— Catherine Opie

If history tells us anything, it is that human culture and knowledge are constantly evolving.

— James Redfield

“...I have come to be convinced that it is only the unbending observance of custom that sustains life in an urban circumstance.”

— Gordon Lish

I took over a job in Golden State with a bad culture, guys that said they wanted to win, but didn't want…

— Mark Jackson

“the highest monuments of human civilization accept its ironies and lend their eternity to its mischievous pranks.”

— Victor Hugo

Sometimes I feel like a one man crusade against the devaluation of music in America and culture in the arts.

— Terry Bozzio

In the bacteriology lab, we have culture plates. You put a bug in there and it starts growing and gets bigger and…

— John Tanton

Aristocracy of the soul cannot be denied because of the blind equality. We can get lost due to ideas about equality. If…

— Ilkin Santak

I am so excited to have created a line that has been inspired by my culture - showing its color, its passion…

— Thalia

The more elevated a culture, the richer its language. The number of words and their combinations depends directly on a sum of…

— Anton Chekhov

Chicago is complicated and complex and very violent but also very rich with history and tradition and art and culture - it's…

— Vic Mensa

Don't forget that you are the product of a culture that went stark raving mad about ten thousand years ago. Adjust your…

— Chuck Lorre

This is what I have learned: Any white person living in the United States will develop opinions about race simply by swimming…

— Robin DiAngelo

Punk is just like any other sub culture or music. Straight rock music has those elements. I grew up in a place…

— Justin Sane

And so, inevitably, one returns to the centre of Western culture, Greece, and we have never, in any sense, lost our ties…

— Stephen Gardiner

For all the casual slurs about 'cultural imperialism', British imperialists were more interested in other cultures than anybody before or since, and,…

— Mark Steyn

True love in Mexico isn't between lovers; it's between a parent and a child. Mexico is a very intense culture of sons…

— Sandra Cisneros

If we want to avoid a clash of cultures - and the jury is still out on whether we can - we'll…

— Wolfgang Schauble

“If there is anything in the life of any culture or period that gives good grounds for alarm, it is the rise…

— Marilynne Robinson

Wherever wolves run free, indigenous cultures have revered them as symbols of loyalty, free will, fearlessness and unity. But wolves haven't had…

— Zoe Helene

When tradition is thought to state the way things really are, it becomes the director and judge of our lives; we are,…

— Anonymous

The sick individual finds himself at home with all other similarly sick individuals. The whole culture is geared to this kind of…

— Erich Fromm

Now that we're poisoned with the culture of superheroes, I think it's important to laugh about it.

— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

Hiring people is an art, not a science, and resumes can't tell you whether someone will fit into a company's culture.

— Howard Schultz

We still have so many cultures in which people are imprisoned and whipped and killed for writing what they think.

— Alice Mattison

You can love the Mexican culture, you can love your Mexican-American wife and also believe that we need to control the border.

— Jeb Bush

One great function of the arts is to keep ideals alive in a culture that does not yet realize them.

— Susan Neiman

The food and the people in Thailand never let you down and Bangkok is an astonishing place - the culture's lovely and…

— Dave Myers

“Most of your heritage comes from your culture, stupidity is one of them.”

— M.F. Moonzajer

Independence is useful, but caring attitudes and behaviors shrivel up in a culture where each person is responsible only for himself.

— Alfie Kohn

The whole culture is telling you to hurry, while the art tells you to take your time. Always listen to the art.

— Junot Diaz

“bukannya teknik bertanam yang merupakan faktor yang paling penting, melainkan lebih kepada pikiran petaninya.”

— Masanobu Fukuoka

There are storytelling traditions that come from Africa that are unique from anywhere else.

— Elvis Mitchell

Part of your heritage in this society is the opportunity to become financially independent.

— Jim Rohn

Comics are an international language, they can cross boundaries and generations. Comics are a bridge between all cultures.

— Osamu Tezuka

The seeds of civilization are in every culture, but it is city life that brings them to fruition.

— Susanne Katherina Langer

Often hair is the way we are differentiated in this culture. To me the decision to straighten your hair is deeply political.

— Jami Floyd

What unites us is our culture. You just have to listen to European music, from north, south, east and west, to hear…

— Jack Savoretti