Cultural Quotes

• Many other cultures value poetry more than we do. In Ireland, poetry is a top cultural pursuit, the art to end all arts.

  

  Campbell McGrath
  • Art
  • Poetry
  • Pursuit

• The very matrix of our ability to love and bond in later life, maternal sensitivity – or lack thereof – also determines cultural tenor.

  

  Antonella Gambotto-Burke
  • Cultural
  • Sensitivity
  • Tenor

• A lot of these women had to overcome cultural conditioning against hurting other people, or even confronting anyone physically.

  

  Carrie Vaughn
  • Women
  • Overcome
  • Hurting

• The world is poised on the cusp of an economic and cultural shift as dramatic as that of the Industrial Revolution.

  

  Steven Levy
  • World
  • Cultural
  • Shift

• As a Liberal of course I am very strongly committed to the notion of artistic freedom and very hostile to the idea of there being a single view of cultural policy dictated from on high.

  

  George Brandis
  • Freedom
  • View
  • Cultural

• Despite what some Christians may want to believe, Christmas, as celebrated by many Americans, is a cultural, not a religious holiday. If Jesus were to be completely removed from the equation, Americans could continue to celebrate Christmas with hardly an interruption.

  

  Andreas J. Kostenberger
  • Holiday
  • Christians
  • Cultural

• What counts is the cultural level.

  

  Ezra Pound
  • Level
  • Counts
  • Cultural

• I love traditional music. But in any culture around the world, there is the historic and cultural music and everything that's been passed down and passed down, and hopefully you take that, and then you take it, you know, the next distance, and then somebody else takes it the next distance.

  

  Robbie Robertson
  • Distance
  • Everything
  • Somebody

• Writers like John T. Edge, whose work is all about the cultural histories behind food, have done so much to show that these stories are a really vital part of our cultural heritage.

  

  Michael Paterniti
  • Stories
  • Behind
  • Heritage

• To recover the fatherhood idea, we must fashion a new cultural story of fatherhood. The moral of today's story is that fatherhoodis superfluous. The moral of the new story must be that fatherhood is essential.

  

  David Blankenhorn
  • Fatherhood
  • Essential
  • Recover

• The best example of all, to me, that our problems are both personal and cultural and political and social is the whole condition of the middle class economically.

  

  Bill Clinton
  • Problems
  • Personal
  • Middle-class

• In Europe, unlike the States, they have a cultural policy.

  

  Robert Wilson
  • Policy
  • Cultural

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