Culture Quotes · Page 124

To live your life well, and have respect for what came before or after - there's a strong respect for that in…

— Anna Deavere Smith

“And finally comes culture, which is entertainment, relaxation, transport out of the pain of living.”

— John Steinbeck

New customs, Though they be never so ridiculous (Nay, let em be unmanly), yet are followed.

— William Shakespeare

That's what they hired me to do in Washington, change a little bit of the culture, try to win a Stanley Cup.

— Barry Trotz

I'm not a policy maker. I'm not even a very great activist. My main thing is to make things that speak for…

— Wangechi Mutu

'The Cosby Show' made an impact on comedy, television and culture. We rejected lowering the bar.

— Bill Cosby

Since the '60s, we've lived so much in an age of quick fixes that the culture itself has become a quick fix.

— Michael McDonald

Many in our increasingly secular culture want to chase Christians out of the public square altogether.

— Eric Metaxas

I think that the dark side of MFA programs is that they're generating more poets than the culture can absorb and there…

— Edward Hirsch

We do not have an American culture. We have a white American culture and a black American culture. So when those two…

— Michael Emerson

Gujarat is all about Trade with Tradition, Commerce with Culture, Enterprise with Entertainment and Development with Disaster management.

— Narendra Modi

Cultures are made of continuities and changes, and the identity of a society can survive through these changes. Societies without change aren't…

— Anonymous

Parents are the best university in the world for life science.The basics of culture from them will be value and the ethics.Cannot…

— Sumesh Nair

It's time to respect the treaties our ancestors signed and care for our land, water, and cultures so that they remain healthy…

— Winona LaDuke

My goal is to create one of the greatest companies that's ever existed, and that has everything to do with the people,…

— Julia Hartz

I've lived 16, 17 years of my life in Asia, and that's most of my life. I was born in Asia -…

— Henry Golding

We are reviewing our experience to enable us to respond to the cultural challenge: to help countries, communities and individuals interpret universal…

— Thoraya Obaid

The destination of the soul: this is what I, led on by Nils Holgersson, came to seek in the literature of Western…

— Kenzaburo Oe

Since the primary motive of the evil is disguise, one of the places evil people are most likely to be found is…

— Martin Buber

Human beings are themselves considered consumer goods to be used and then discarded. We have created a "disposable" culture which is now…

— Pope Francis

We usually forget that apart from making a living on this earth, human beings live in societies and these societies have cultures.…

— Tunku Abdul Rahman

The Shambhala teachings are founded on the premise that there is basic human wisdom that can help to solve the world's problems.…

— Chogyam Trungpa

The different American experience of the 20th Century is crucial because the lesson of the century for Europe, which essentially is that…

— Tony Judt

Any honest examination of the national life proves how far we are from the standard of human freedom with which we began.…

— James A. Baldwin

I love touring. You get to meet so many people and experience different cultures.

— Jubin Nautiyal

In American culture we are supposed to take a pill when we're depressed or in grief as opposed to actually feeling.

— Laura Dern

By questioning all the aspects of our business, we continuously inject improvement and innovation into our culture.

— Michael Dell

Music is in every country and every culture around the world. It's universal.

— Mark Hoppus

Consumer culture needs us to be impulsive, while our political culture fears that we will ever develop discipline.

— Frankie Boyle

At heart I'm a hip-hop kid and an R&B kid, but I've always had an appreciation for club culture and dance music.

— Jax Jones

When we think of memetic culture, it is the 'sausage factory' of the old days.

— Christopher Poole

The history of modern culture is a history of popular entertainments evolving into art.

— Andrew Hoberek

Protectiveness has often muffled the sound of doors closing against women.

— Betty Friedan

“We no longer say, ‘It’s in their blood.’ We say, ‘It’s in their culture.’ Thus”

— Yuval Noah Harari

We almost need a revolution in the culture of our thinking about football.

— Gary Lineker

I don't like the ironic tone that our pop culture, in the world, has taken. Everything is 'ironic.' Everything is 'cool.'

— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

“tradition, properly cared for, nurtured, honored, and respected, continues to feed the soul of a family.”

— Adriana Trigiani

Oh, the humanity… It was a wonder Rhage hadn't blinded himself with all that pop culture.

— J.R. Ward

The notion that Jews are mythic creatures is well circulating in our culture.

— Steven T. Katz

American culture is so open compared to Korean culture, which is really conservative.

— Tiffany Hwang