Culture Quote by Neil MacGregor Download Open image “The spread of Viking bling is a good indication of the spread of its culture.” — Neil MacGregor ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.7 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Bling Good Culture Good Indication Spread Spread Culture Spread Viking Viking Viking Bling
Generally speaking, I don't think people know a great deal about the Viking culture, apart from the label that is usually attached to them,… — Gabriel Byrne Copy Share Image
I read a lot of Icelandic sagas when I was young. I've always been interested in the Viking culture. — Kristofer Hivju Copy Share Image
What is interesting to me about Vikings is that they were failed farmers. — Roger Avary Copy Share Image
I felt that a lot of Viking culture had been caricatured and misconstrued. After all, they were far more democratic than the Saxons and… — Michael Hirst Copy Share Image
If the Vikings were around today, they would probably be amazed at how much glow-in-the-dark stuff we have, and how we take so much… — Jack Handey Copy Share Image
“Viking is a term—thought to have its root in the old Norse vika, meaning “to go off”—for Scandinavians who left their native land to… — Mark Kurlansky Copy Share Image
It seems strange that almost no other traces of the strong vikings are found in America. — Ellsworth Huntington Copy Share Image
There are definitely advantages to not looking like a Viking in real life. — Alexander Dreymon Copy Share Image
In the ninth and tenth centuries the Vikings invaded Britain from Scandinavia and settled in large numbers. Their language, which we call Old Norse,… — Larry Trask Copy Share Image
I discovered I'm 60 per cent Viking. Well, more Danish, I suppose. I'm also two-and-a-half per cent Neanderthal. — Bill Bailey Copy Share Image
'Vikings' is filmed in Ireland, and 400 people get jobs from that show. Their economy is not that good, so I'm proud of what… — Travis Fimmel Copy Share Image
The Vikings themselves are fascinating creatures. They're human beings, of course, but their ethos are so different from ours. The fact that they live… — Linus Roache Copy Share Image
“And the more you look at the history of Homo sapiens, it’s all about movement, right from the very first time they decided to… — Neil MacGregor Copy Share Image
In the world of the Middle East at the moment, the debates are shrill. But ... the wisest voice of all of them may… — Neil MacGregor Copy Share Image
The focus in the Western pictorial tradition is on the body of Christ, the bit you can paint, the Nativity and the infancy, but… — Neil MacGregor Copy Share Image
For the Greeks, there was no single canonical version of creation, but a number of overlapping stories. — Neil MacGregor Copy Share Image
The deciphering of ancient scripts changed forever the way Europeans were able to imagine the story of humanity, destroying centuries of received authority about… — Neil MacGregor Copy Share Image
The distinction between a gallery and a museum is enormous. The gallery is about looking at a thing of beauty; the purpose of the… — Neil MacGregor Copy Share Image
While there are few records of Viking women participating in battle, they certainly held positions of high status in society as human sorceresses known… — Neil MacGregor Copy Share Image
“Gold was the attribute of the great Inca sun god and represented his generative powers – gold was described as the ‘sweat of the… — Neil MacGregor Copy Share Image
Creation stories, so central in the religions of the Middle East, play a surprisingly marginal part in Greek myth. The Greeks had nothing to… — Neil MacGregor Copy Share Image
The collapse of the Tower of Babel is perhaps the central urban myth. It is certainly the most disquieting. In Babylon, the great city… — Neil MacGregor Copy Share Image
Our collective memories are welcoming places, and one image, that of Jesus, has absorbed and appropriated elements of other traditions and aspirations in order… — Neil MacGregor 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
