Culture Quotes

• I spent two months in Fredericksburg, Texas, when I was 8, while my father shot a movie, and I loved it. I just embraced the whole cowboy culture. I got myself a pair of awesome boots and a cowboy hat.

  

  Alexander Skarsgard
  • Movie
  • Father
  • Awesome

• This is really an opportunity to mobilize a new generation of scholars and pastors not just to equip the saints but also to engage the culture and reclaim it for Christ. That's really what is driving me.

  

  William A. Dembski
  • Opportunity
  • Driving
  • Christ

• I'm pleased that the Ministry of Culture is protecting the morals of the expat bankers and their girlfriends that are going to be coming.

  

  Mick Jagger The Rolling Stones
  • Culture

• Music is language itself. It should not have any barriers of caste, creed, language or anything. Music is one, only cultures are different. Music is the language of languages. It is the ultimate mother of languages.

  

  A. R. Rahman
  • Music
  • Different
  • Mother

• And do as adversaries do in law, strive mightily, but eat and drink as friends.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Drink
  • Strive
  • Adversaries

• The chief aim of their constitution is that, whenever public needs permit, all citizens should be free, so far as possible, to withdraw their time and energy from the service of the body, and devote themselves to the freedom and culture of the mind. For that, they think, is the real happiness of life.

  

  Thomas More
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Mind

• I feel more European than Belgian. However I do think that my Flemish roots have an impact on my character and culture.

  

  Ann Demeulemeester
  • Character
  • Culture

• Music is critical in our lives and culture. It's the inspiration that drives us. It's also the window to our souls. It's a reflection as to who we are, what we stand for and where we're going.

  

  Bill Walton
  • Music
  • Inspiration
  • Reflection

• I don't have space to enter into the examples or the history of this, so I'm left with having to make the bold statement that culture is extinct.

  

  Vivienne Westwood
  • Space
  • Artist
  • Example

• I think there's this great disconnect between youth culture and politics, which is a product of how our capitalist system works.

  

  Amandla Stenberg
  • Great
  • Politics
  • I Think

• The paths by which people journey toward happiness lie in part through the world about them and in part through the experience of their souls. On the one hand, there is the happiness which comes from wealth, honor, the enjoyment of life, from health, culture, science, or art; and, on the other hand, there is the happiness which is to be found in a good conscience, in virtue, work, philanthropy, religion, devotion to great ideas and great deeds.

  

  Carl Hilty
  • People
  • World
  • Soul

• A culture is in its finest flower before it begins to analyze itself.

  

  Alfred North Whitehead
  • Culture
  • Flower

• I'd love to spend a year at the Sorbonne studying French culture.

  

  Yvette Mimieux
  • Culture

• Man rises up against nature by means of what we would today call culture.

  

  Eric Wolf
  • Nature
  • Destruction
  • Human Actions

• To the brains of our predecessors we owe all of our inheritance of civilization and culture.

  

  John Eccles
  • Culture

• I have never been to India and I am not a specialist on Indian culture, and I would not wish to be heard to be taking swipes at a culture which I've never experienced and where I've never lived.

  

  N. T. Wright
  • Culture
  • Wish

• The evolution of cultures appears to follow the pattern of the evolution of species. The many different forms of culture which arise correspond to the "mutations" of genetic theory. Some forms prove to be effective under prevailing circumstances and others not, and the perpetuation of the culture is determined accordingly.

  

  B. F. Skinner
  • Different
  • Culture

• There are occasions when I've had beef, but I generally tend to avoid it, as a nod towards my parents' culture.

  

  Sanjeev Bhaskar
  • Parent
  • Occasions
  • Beef

• I think of sports writers as mediating between two worlds. Athletes probably think of sports writers as not macho enough. And people in high culture probably think of sports writers as jocks or something. They are in an interestingly complex position in which they have to mediate the world of body and the world of words.

  

  David Shields
  • People
  • World
  • High

• Any river is really the summation of a whole valley. It shapes not only the land but the life and even the culture of that valley. To think of any river as nothing but water is to ignore the greater part of it.

  

  Hal Borland
  • Life
  • Water
  • River

• If we demand things in worship that can't be in every culture, then we're demanding cultural preferences, not biblical.

  

  Ed Stetzer
  • Worship
  • Demanding
  • Preferences

• We come from geek culture, we come from the free software movement, we have a lot of technologists involved. If we had done the same sort of comparison on poets or artists, I think that we would not have fared nearly as well.

  

  Jimmy Wales
  • Done
  • Free
  • Culture

• I see myself today as Sitting Bull trying to bring a voice of Easternism, holism, community-based thinking to a very Western culture.

  

  Joel Salatin
  • Thinking
  • Trying
  • Today

• I think it's a very confused culture. On the one hand, no one is better than anyone else; no one is prettier. On the other hand, everyone is completely obsessed by their looks and by how they strike the world. On the one hand, we're all equal; on the other hand, everyone's a superstar. It's all very irrational, like all ideology.

  

  Martin Amis
  • World
  • Hand
  • Confused

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