Culture Quotes · Page 165

I do speak Mandarin, and I also relate to the hunger that China has for culture and architecture and style.

— Vera Wang

Easily the hardest 'Jeopardy!' categories to study in the kids' section are the so-called 'trashy' pop culture ones.

— James Holzhauer

It must be recognized that in any culture the source of law is the god of that society

— R.J. Rushdoony

There's something within contemporary culture which is far more faux masculine than it was when men were really men.

— David Gordon Green

The more religious a state is, the more it resembles its religions example of hell on the earth.

— Ilkin Santak

The point of my work is to show that culture and education aren't simply hobbies or minor influences.

— Pierre Bourdieu

It's our culture, Christian history, that's what formed me. Even as an atheist, I believe. We're just built that way.

— Gerhard Richter

We need to have a view that culture has a value in itself, not just in terms of a social and economic…

— Munira Mirza

Food is an integral part of Caribbean life - it's diverse just like Caribbean culture, with flavour influences from India, Europe, China,…

— Ainsley Harriott

I was too young to really remember it, but at one time, my family lived in Hawaii and Fiji because my parents…

— Nyjah Huston

We have become part of the throwaway culture where if something's broken, throw it away, buy new. It's just easier, more convenient.…

— Jay Blades

I think there is sort of a disconnect in this country between people that served in the military, understand the culture of…

— Ron Livingston

Margaret Sanger didn't just introduce the idea of birth control into our culture at large, she freed women from indenture to their…

— Roxane Gay

There's a whole culture now where you meet travellers who don't give you a scrap of paper with their address on it,…

— Charley Boorman

It would be a horrible business, a horrible sort of culture if you didn't have the candy pop as well as the…

— Thea Gilmore

I have the audacity to believe that peoples everywhere can have three meals a day for their bodies, education and culture for…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Don's Mancini father was an advertising executive and I think Don really grew up and all of that stayed in his head.…

— David Kirschner

And finally, I just felt it was crucial for some of us in the hip hop community to speak up on the…

— MURS

You often hear attacks on international adoption as robbing a child of his or her culture, and that's both true and false.…

— Melissa Fay Greene

I really only respect the Arab culture. I ain't really trying to pay no attention to, ya know, these little people in…

— Busta Rhymes

Some leaders want to jump right to planning and fixing their issues, without understanding exactly what the problems are. Others want to…

— Adrian Gostick

We believe strongly that in the long term, we will be better served - as shareholders and in all other ways -…

— Larry Page

I suppose for me as an artist it wasn't always just about expressing my work; I really wanted, more than anything else,…

— David Bowie

Not enough books focus on how a culture responds to radically new ideas or discovery. Especially in the biography genre, they tend…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

If the story-teller is to nourish the roots of his culture, society must set him free to follow his vision wherever it…

— Mahesh Bhatt

By long-standing tradition, I take this opportunity to savage other designers in the thin disguise of good, clean fun.

— P. J. Plauger

By heritage and by choice, the United States of America will make that stand.

— George W. Bush

Pop music has a pretty good track record of embracing queer culture.

— Olly Alexander

Everyone is born with it but, unfortunately, our society and culture are programmed to kill creativity.

— Amala Akkineni

When I found out more about the Maori culture, I fell in love with it, and with the people, too.

— Jason Momoa

The creative process is a cocktail of instinct, skill, culture and a highly creative feverishness.

— Francis Bacon

I come from a poor family, so really, the culture I know best is the street, TV, school.

— Maiwenn

It's a dark culture that we live in. But you were called to glow in the dark.

— Curtis Martin

Culture is properly described as the love of perfection; it is a study of perfection.

— Matthew Arnold

In Cambodian culture the male figure in the family is important; when you lose your husband you lose your economic ability to…

— Chath Piersath

It's a difficult business, creating a new, alternative civilization.

— David Graeber

I just love New York. New York has energy, it has culture, New York is very diverse. There's not a better place…

— Chris Rock

Culture - art, music, literature - is the long game, because it's the way to change people's ideas in a more personal…

— Dee Rees

I try to make music that's relevant to my life and relatable to the culture I live in.

— Sam Hunt

And Cape Town is not what it used to be. Foreigners have left their imprint on our culture.

— K. Sello Duiker