Cultures Quotes

• Twentieth-century culture's disease is the inability to feel their reality. People cluster to TV, soap operas, movies, theater, pop idols and they have wild emotion over symbols. But in the reality of their own lives, they're emotionally dead.

  

  Jim Morrison The Doors
  • Reality
  • Disease
  • Inability

• I’ve always tried to insert consciousness and spirituality in my records, interpreting the writings of all cultures and religions and how they apply to life in modern times

  

  William Michael Griffin Jr.
  • Records
  • Religions
  • Cultures

• Repetition yields constants. Constants create cultures.

  

  Dan T. Cathy
  • Cultures
  • Repetition
  • Constants

• I do not want my house to be rounded by walls and my windows to be closed to other cultures. I wish to become familiar with the culture of lands as much as possible but I will not permit them to affect me or shake me from my own status.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Cultures
  • Windows
  • Lands

• My parents put me in the water very early, and also had me skiing at a very early age. They put me on skis when I was one and a half. I was fortunate to have parents who understood the importance of exposing their kids to different sports, different cultures and different activities in order to discover what we liked and what we didn't like. They didn't push us, they just gave us many things to choose from.

  

  Benoit Lecomte
  • Choose
  • Discover
  • Skiing

• To the cultures of Asia and the continent of Africa it is the Western impact which has stirred up the winds of change and set the processes of modernization in motion. Education brought not only the idea of equality but also another belief which we used to take for granted in the West-the idea of progress, the idea that science and technology can be used to better human conditions. In ancient society, men tended to believe themselves fortunate if tomorrow was not worse than today and anyway, there was little they could do about it.

  

  Barbara Mary Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth
  • Believe
  • Education
  • Change

• It is important to note that we did not emerge into patriarchal religion from a dark, chaotic, immature period of primitivism; Goddess-centered cultures, including Minoan Crete, were highly evolved.

  

  Charlene Spretnak
  • Evolved
  • Goddess-centered
  • Minoan Crete

• I was watching an HBO special on eating habits and different cultures, and they showed in China how people eat cats ... I happened to be sitting on the couch with my cat, and once I saw that, it just put everything in perspective.

  

  Ben Kenney Incubus
  • Cultures
  • HBO
  • Eating Habits

• To go back to my childhood, I experienced lots of different family cultures, all the while feeling like none of them were mine.

  

  Lily King
  • Different
  • Family
  • Feeling

• Kira watched them talk and noticed how they quickly fell into the easy give-and-take of Starfleet-trained information exchange. It was a skill she had always admired in Sisko,  Jadzia, O’Brien, and Julian, but hadn’t imagined it extended to all Starfleet officers, even former ones like Ro. Klingons don’t do this, she mused. Or the Romulans or the Cardassians.  They have their own methods, their own martial cultures, but nothing that can compete with this. Ro

  

  S. D. Perry
  • Cultures
  • Imagined
  • Exchange

• Abstraction has always been around, since the drawings in the caves. It exists in all cultures all over the world. I thought for a while that it was going to be the major movement. But people always drift back to realism. I guess there is a certain security in that.

  

  Brice Marden
  • World
  • Abstraction
  • Caves

• I claim to represent all the cultures, for my religion, whatever it may be called, demands the fulfillment of all the cultures.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Religion
  • Cultures
  • Represent

• In studying other cultures, we learn more about ourselves and our relationship to all things in this world.

  

  Eustace Conway
  • Relationship
  • Cultures
  • Studying

• For some reason I seem to absorb the landscape and cultures where I am planted. A State Divided Symphony was inspired by the 150th anniversary of Missouri's entry into the Civil War.

  

  Barbara Harbach
  • Inspired
  • Landscape
  • Civil War

• The human community and individual people are more likely to hurt or undernourish children they think of as 'bodies' to be used. Cultures and people are more likely to raise children to be mere economic interns rather than fully developed humans if they see children as 'bodies' to be forced into certain economic and social molds.

  

  Michael Gurian
  • Children
  • Human Community
  • Molds

• I had a vision of bringing two cultures together, and I have said this in the past: my goal is to bring Morocco and India together through music and art.

  

  Nora Fatehi
  • Music
  • Together
  • Cultures

• Some people today claim that cultures rooted in oral tradition are far more careful to make certain that traditions that are told and retold are not changed significantly. This turns out to be a modern myth, however. Anthropologists who have studied oral cultures show that just the opposite is the case. Only literary cultures have a concern for exact replication of the facts “as they really are.” And this is because in literary cultures, it is possible to check the sources to see whether someone has changed a story. In oral cultures, it is widely expected that stories will indeed change—they change anytime a storyteller is telling a story in a new context. New contexts require new ways of telling stories. Thus, oral cultures historically have seen no problem with altering accounts as they were told and retold.

  

  Bart Ehrman
  • Change
  • Tradition
  • Myth

• My feeling about seeing the world is that its going to change you necessarily, just the very fact of being out there and meeting people from different cultures and different ways of life.

  

  Ewan McGregor
  • Change
  • Cultures
  • Different Ways

• Thatcher knew nothing of the European customs and cultures with which we were allied...

  

  Brian Sewell
  • Cultures
  • Customs

• Of course, English is a very powerful language, a colonizer's language and a gift to a writer. English has destroyed and sucked up the languages of other cultures - its cruelty is its vitality.

  

  Louise Erdrich
  • Up
  • Powerful
  • English

• My parents' work ethic amazed me. How could they put in such long hours, day after day? Part of the reason was to keep the family going - to keep me going. I realized that, although we had different values derived from different cultures and wouldn't agree on certain issues, they were good people, incredible people, and I loved and respected them.

  

  Harvey Pekar
  • Values
  • Parents' work
  • Certain issues

• I enjoy living life and I enjoy going to different restaurants and eating my way through a country and going to different museums and learning about different cultures.

  

  Mila Kunis
  • Life
  • Enjoy
  • Restaurants

• Travel enables us to enrich our lives with new experiences, to enjoy and to be educated, to learn respect for foreign cultures, to establish friendships, and above all to contribute to international cooperation and peace throughout the world.

  

  Jules Verne
  • Travel
  • Experiences
  • Educated

• In all cultures and peoples there are stories of the trickster. In some North American traditions he is known by the form and name of Coyote. He is the energy of mischief and often of danger . . . Coyote has brought me to the edge of disaster, death, and mischief time and time again . . . It has been said that Coyote only lets you see him when he wants you to. For whatever reason, he has let me see him.

  

  Evan Wright
  • Energy
  • Reason
  • Danger

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