Culture Quote by Greil Marcus

Myths are part of our DNA. We're a civilisation with a continuous culture. The effort to modernize it keeps it alive. Readers connect with…

— Amish Tripathi

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

Culture must have its ultimate aim in the metaphysical or it will cease to be culture.

— Johan Huizinga

As our language wanes and dies, the golden legends of the far-off centuries fade and pass away. No one sees their influence upon culture;…

— Douglas Hyde

The culture stays alive, but certain parts of it die or fail, and that's very interesting to me.

— Campbell McGrath

Every culture has their myths that people are aware of and share.

— Stellan Skarsgard

I believe that culture begins in the cradle . . .To do without tales and stories and books is to lose humanity's past, is…

— Jane Yolen

We have such a young culture that there is an opportunity to contribute wonderful new myths to it, which will be accepted.

— Kurt Vonnegut

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

I think the more you understand myths, the more you understand the roots of our culture and the more things will resonate. Do you…

— Rick Riordan

Culture is just a shambling zombie that repeats what it did in life; bits of it drop off, and it doesn't appear to notice.

— Alan Moore