Culture Quotes · Page 139

The Venus Project presents a bold, new direction for humanity that entails nothing less than the total redesign of our culture.

— Jacque Fresco

Firemen have a culture of death. There are rituals, carefully constructed for the living, to process the dead.

— David Grann

If it's a competition for which country has the best street food culture, you could do worse than back Thailand.

— Melissa Leong

Culture (science) is the form of religion; Religion is the substance of culture (science).

— Paul Tillich

I've inherited so much culture, beauty, and love, and I'm the perfect mix of Philomena.

— Philomena Kwao

My father knew how to speak in Pushtan; he understood the Afghani culture very well.

— Mukul Dev

Silence is not our heritage but our destiny; we live where we want to live.

— Annie Dillard

Now that I'm older, I appreciate my culture and I appreciate Spanish. I feel bad I didn't pick up on it earlier.

— Taboo

So there's no guarantee if you like the music you will empathize with the culture and the people who made it. It…

— David Byrne

If e-mail had been around before the telephone was invented, people would have said, 'Hey, forget e-mail! With this new telephone invention…

— Thomas Friedman

Of course L.A. has its mad bits: you can get a collagen cappuccino if that's what you really want. But the American…

— Lara Pulver

Our belief is that if you get the culture right, most of the other stuff, like great customer service, or building a…

— Tony Hsieh

The hero, the mythical subject, is constructed as human being and as male; he is the active principle of culture, the establisher…

— Teresa de Lauretis

“To my countrymen who gave unto themselves the constitution but not the ability to keep it,who inherited resplendent heritage but not the…

— Nani Palkhiwala

I apologize to all of my colleagues who've been writing up storms, but as a culture we've essentially put ourselves into a…

— Sherry Turkle

I'm not interested in popular culture, particularly. I'm not against it, I'm not avoiding it, but I'm not interested in it as…

— Joe Bradley

You have to build your core nucleus of your team through your draft. What that does is you basically introduce them to…

— John Dorsey

In times of totalitarian or autocratic rule, music (indeed culture in general) is often the only avenue of independent thought. It is…

— Daniel Barenboim

The character of Anglo-American civilization . . . is the product . . . of two perfectly distinct elements that elsewhere have…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

I think it's about the feeling more than a language. And I think that we and every culture in the world has…

— Stromae

There are people who are known for some contribution to pop culture, but that doesn't mean that you've survived solely on your…

— Todd Rundgren

Here in the United States, hopefully, what we're building are not just pyramids, are not icons to one pharaoh. What we're building…

— Barack Obama

I'll tell you, in making film, especially when you're an actress, you're always worried about how you look on film, how they…

— Betty Buckley

I too acknowledge the all-out omnipotence of early culture and nature; hereby we have either a doddered dwarf-bush, or a high-towering, wide-shadowing…

— Thomas Carlyle

I've been traded a couple times, but I've enjoyed the experience of new cities and cultures and all types of things.

— Matt Kemp

When I came to India, it's just a different country, but the culture was same that I grew up in.

— Hazel Keech

“Between the sands of time and tradition is a multitude of truths untold.”

— Dr. J. E. Cross

Peace is not unity in similarity but unity in diversity, in the comparison and conciliation of differences.

— Anonymous

I feel so honored that I'm bringing part of the culture of my country to other countries, you know, like the funk…

— Anitta

When a culture of ladies arises, a culture of gentlemen will follow.

— Jason Evert

Learning and literature have a way of outlasting the civilization that made them.

— Dorothy L. Sayers

No writer or thinker has taught me as much as James Hunter has about this all-important and complex subject of how culture…

— Timothy Keller

Coming from an Asian culture, I was always taught to respect my elders, to be a better listener than a talker.

— Lisa Ling

Your traditions change from when you a child to when you become an adult.

— Katharine McPhee

We cannot hope to create a sustainable culture with any but sustainable souls.

— Derrick Jensen

At Cambridge, there was a completely unintimidating culture, and there were no class divisions among the students.

— Elizabeth Blackburn

Wisdom and white hair might not be as valued [in our society] as in different cultures.

— Karla Souza

We're a staple in the American music culture. Like us or not, we're here to stay.

— Jonathan Cain

I've seen a lot and experienced so many different cultures, and that's helped me a lot in my career and helped me…

— Luol Deng

For we know that our patchwork heritage is a strength, not a weakness.

— Anonymous