Culture Quote by Michael D. Coe Download Open image ““The Olmec civilization was truly the first in Mesoamerica.”” — Michael D. Coe ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.0 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Culture
“Columbus was not the first person to discover America, but the last.” — Pedro Domingos Copy Share Image
“America's civilization perturbs the trajectories of all other civilizations just by existing.” — Walter A. McDougall Copy Share Image
“The Olmec were but the first of many societies that arose in Mesoamerica in this epoch. Most had religions that focused on human sacrifice,… — Charles C. Mann Copy Share Image
“ab Americo Inventore ...quasi Americi terram sive Americam From Amerigo the discoverer ...as if it were the land of Americus, thus America.” — Martin Waldseemüller Copy Share Image
“Of all the world's civilizations, America was the one that most needed losers.” — STEPHANE AUDEGUY Copy Share Image
“Instead of adapting, their leaders clung to power and strove instead to be the last ones to starve to death. The Mayan civilization in… — Daniel Suarez Copy Share Image
“So: outside, and to the black rush of the Presumpscot River. To freedom. For me, the world was beginning.” — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
“America is the only civilization in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval of civilization” — Georges Clemenceau Copy Share Image
“It wasn't like America, where we scraped the earth clean, thinking we could start again every time. We hadn't learned yet, there was not… — Janet Fitch Copy Share Image
“Oh, you may be sure that Columbus was happy not when he had discovered America, but when he was discovering it.” — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Oh, you may be sure that Columbus was happy not when he had discovered America, but when he was discovering it. Take my word… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Covarrubias began proclaiming, like Caso, that Olmec was the “mother culture” of Mesoamerica.” — Michael D. Coe Copy Share Image
“Briefly, the Long Count consists of a tabulation of days elapsed since the supposed inception of the calendar, the total being expressed as so… — Michael D. Coe Copy Share Image
What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions. Life is plurality, death is uniformity. By suppressing differences and… — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
Philosopher is a dictator who modifies accepted standards with his thoughts. — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
A lot of indigenous cultures are deeply involved in working with ancestor spirits, elemental spirits, and demons. Many of these cultures feel that, if… — Daniel Pinchbeck Copy Share Image
In the hearing world, I'm constantly having to lip-read and trying to understand what's going on. Sign language is so beautiful. It gives you… — Rose Ayling-Ellis Copy Share Image
I was born and raised in Orlando, where the economy and culture has been powerfully shaped by tourism, and so I've long been interested… — Laura van den Berg Copy Share Image
Our times demand the declaration of the world's resources as the common heritage of all people. — Jacque Fresco Copy Share Image
The U.S.-Mexican border es un herida abierta where the Third World grates against the first and bleeds. And before a scab forms it hemorrhages… — Gloria E. Anzaldúa Copy Share Image
What it comes down to for me is this: Will the technologies of communication in our culture, serve to enlighten us and help us… — Roger Waters Copy Share Image
I think it's useful to experience other types of dance and other cultures, and the life of a classical dancer these days is certainly… — Deborah Bull Copy Share Image
In the movie, the stars above the ship bear no correspondence to any constellations in a real sky. Worse yet, while the heroine bobs...… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
It is not my intention to explain Turkey, its culture and its problems. My literature has a universal concern: I want to bring people… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
I don't think the distinction between high and low culture exists anymore. — Jeremy Scott Copy Share Image
