Century Quote by Douglas Hyde

It is a sure sign that a culture has reached a dead end when it is no longer intrigued by its myths.

— Greil Marcus

A culture is not only the language and the arts of a people. It is all their history, all their hopes for the future.

— Robert Payne

“The spread of languages shouldn't imply the decay of national languages. There are so many literary and historical memories, so many joys and sorrows…

— Kató Lomb

An indigenous culture with sufficient territory, and bilingual and intercultural education, is in a better position to maintain and cultivate its mythology and shamanism.…

— Jeremy Narby

I'm not certain that I draw from any one culture more than others. Many myths and legends of many different cultures are really the…

— Robert Jordan

“Classical mythology has been so influential upon Western culture that everyone who is alive to the art,culture,politics, and languages of today encounters it.”

— Helen Morales

Without myth, however, every culture loses its healthy creative natural power: it is only a horizon encompassed with myth that rounds off to unity…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Myths are so intimately bound to culture, time, and place that unless the symbols, the metaphors, are kept alive by constant recreation through the…

— Joseph Campbell

I think it's linked to the realisation that we're not going to live forever and that the way of saying and the language become…

— John McGahern

The culture cannot evolve faster than the language. The language is the flashlight that shows the path.

— Terence McKenna

“Language is a bountiful gift and its usage, an elaboration of community and society, is a sacred work. Language and usage evolve over time:…

— Muriel Barbery

Increasingly, over the past ten years, I've come to take the view that a cultural perspective is intrinsic to the future of language teaching…

— David Crystal