Culture Quotes

Every category has its snobs: music, books, movies. There are so many things a man is only pressured into liking or disliking.

~ Criss Jami

A culture which doesn't believe in region and religion is like a rock music, noise for old generation & nirvana for the young ones.

~ Megha Khare

In the fashion industry, everything goes retro except the prices.

~ Criss Jami

Planning is for the world's great cities, for Paris, London, and Rome, for cities dedicated, at some level, to culture. Detroit, on the other hand, was an American city and therefore dedicated to money, and so design had given way to expediency.

~ Jeffrey Eugenides

While her lips talked culture, her heart was planning to invite him to tea

~ E.m. Forster

...What does the blessing of heaven mean? We know the kirin is just an animal, not a mythical creature.It has become a symbol now.... That is the way human beings deal with the world.

~ Lian Hearn

Happily-ever-after monogamy has been reinforced so steadily in literature that we tend to feel like failures when we don’t achieve that in reality.

~ Colleen Chen

It is the vocation of the Christian in every generation to out-think all opposition.

~ Elton Trueblood

Hey! look at usWe're digging and diggingInto stubborn, ancient earth;We're discoveringWhere we came from,and how we came.but where are you going?Hey! look at usWe're learning and learningInto stubborn lawsOf nature and spaceAnd non-nature and non-space;We're discoveringAll there is to know.but where are you going?Hey! look at usWe're planning and planningInto stubborn yearsOf education and trainingAnd hopes and dreams;We're discoveringHow not to waste any time.but where are you going?Hey! look at usWe're shiny and brightAnd clever and sophisticatedAnd witty and well-read;We're discoveringHow to really fill upThis old life.but where are you going?where?Yes; where?

~ Lois A. Cheney

Live in peace with all mankind.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The shared meal elevates eating from a mechanical process of fueling the body to a ritual of family and community, from the mere animal biology to an act of culture.

~ Michael Pollan

What tethers me to my parents is the unspoken dialogue we share about how much of my character is built on the connection I feel to the world they were raised in but that I've only experienced through photos, visits, food. It's not mine and yet, I get it. First-generation kids, I've always thought, are the personification of déjà vu.

~ Durga Chew-Bose

Mollycoddling was the mother's duty; the father's lay elsewhere. As a consequence, his four older children feared and respected him, as they had been taught to do, and the love the professed to feel, had they been asked and had they answered truthfully or even had access to the truth, was of a duty-bound, obligatory kind too, a love issuing from commandment and tradition and the notion of family, not one from the tides of the heart or the unbridled, inexplicable pull of feelings. If painted, that love would take the form of a polite and manicured wash of pleasant colours, not the hurl-and-splatter of impastoed reds.

~ Neel Mukherjee

Van Uoc felt the stab of a sad truth: she and her mother would never be as close as her mother and grandmother had been.Her mother got up, stretched her tidy, graceful frame and headed for the kitchen. Van Uoc wanted to be able to offer her some comfort, but what could she say? Her mother was right. The two of them represented an irreconcilable cultural split. Distance between them was inevitable.

~ Fiona Wood

She'd always been comforted by how many words there were in the English language -- more than a million. With so many words surely anything could be said, everything could be under

~ Fiona Wood

We never expressed this to each other in Chinese, because it wasn’t something said in Chinese culture; the emotions were too strong, the words too coarse, and besides, it was assumed that parents and children loved each other.

~ Atom Yang

We are one human family.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The American family shattered for the simple reason that it was American, not global.

~ John F. Macarthur Jr.

Over and over we lose this sense of feeling we are wholly in our skins by means already named as well as through extended duress. Those who toil too long without respite are also at risk. The soulskin vanishes when we are not paying attention to what we are really doing and particularly the cost to us.We lose the soulskin by becoming too involved with ego, by being too exacting, perfectionistic, or unnecessarily martyred, or driven by a blind ambition, or by being dissatisfied - about self, family, community, culture, world - and not saying or doing anything about it, or by pretending we are an ending source for others, or by not doing all we can to help ourselves. Oh, there are as many ways to lose the soul skin as there are women in the world.The only way to hold on to this sensual soulskin is to retain an exquisitely pristine consciousness about its value and uses.

~ Clarissa Pinkola Estés

I was so done with looking at life through the eyes of beer-drinking cheese-heads. I wanted to go on that mission trip and look through the eyes of someone from a different culture and see what they saw. I wanted to meet people who didn’t crush the can of what they just drank on their forehead.-Rebecca Meyer, Crooked Lines

~ Holly Michael

Poverty is a culture cultivated by a poor mindset which can not evolve or accept possibilities of rising higher .

~ Tare Munzara

The quite person's mind is a raging ocean!

~ Sanjai Velayudhan

There is more to the human mind than its evolutionary heritage.

~ Kenan Malik

when there is no sound mind in the society people's thinking and their decisions, don’t always follow the natural flow of logic, because the society and the culture of the land has polluted the minds of ordinary people

~ Sunday Adelaja

In Jump Time’s developing hybrid world, capacities once nurtured in separate societies are available to the entire family of humankind. This is a stupendous happening, as important as the discovery of new continents during the time of the great sea journeys. For the first time in human history the genius of the human race is available for all to harvest. These rediscovered capacities may be evolutionary accelerators, now being gathered from many places, times, and cultures to awaken our species to who we are and what we yet may be and do. Often, however, it is not comfortable. We can for a time find ourselves strangers in a very strange land, wishing we could return to the comforts of a more insular and familiar worldview. Yet when we get beyond the shutterings of our local cultural trance, we gain the courage to nurture the emerging forms of the possible human and the possible society.

~ Jean Houston

I've often heard people say, “Your country is beautiful, a virtual paradise.” When will the people of Indonesia be as beautiful as their land, with a civilization and culture that contributes to the greater beauty of humankind and no longer smothers and strangles the mind?

~ Pramoedya Ananta Toer

To remain vital, culture must be renewed in the minds of the members of every generation. Outsource memory, and culture withers.

~ Nicholas Carr

Mind being the seat of the soul, and literature being the expression of the mind, literature, it follows, is the soul of an age, the surviving and immortal part of it.

~ Rafael Sabatini

The culture of power versus the power of culture,” he quoted. “One side always loses.

~ Ausma Zehanat Khan

Our culture, so proud of its mind-over-matter philosophy, cuts us off from our bodily experience and from the earth itself. In this severance, our sexuality is negated, our senses assaulted, our environment abused, and our power manipulated. Our ground is our form, and without it we lose our individuality.

~ Anodea Judith

My People: Prepared and never scared, fueled by faith in a sea of despair - we rise and we shine, 'cause it's like that'!

~ T.f. Hodge

Competition works best in sports, but humans get addicted to stuff.

~ Criss Jami

Look, part of the whole technique of disempowering people is to make sure that the real agents of change fall out of history, and are never recognized in the culture for what they are. So it's necessary to distort history and make it look as if Great Men did everything - that's part of how you teach people they can't do anything, they're helpless, they just have to wait for some Great Man to come along and do it for them.

~ Noam Chomsky

I cannot imagine a truly beautiful world without courtesy being integral to its culture.

~ Hrishikesh Agnihotri

Keep your finger on the pulse of society, take controversies with a grain of salt, lick your finger and then lift it to the wind; always know what is going on, my friend, so this world can never steer you wrong again.

~ Criss Jami

It’s all about that cosy, homey feeling, the one you leave behind when you travel across the world.

~ Danielle Esplin

I believe that for Nigeria and other third world countries to truly become developed, we must change the culture and attitude of our people towards work

~ Sunday Adelaja

To stomp about the world ignoring cultural differences is arrogant, to be sure, but perhaps there is another kind of arrogance in the presumption that we may ever really build a faultless bridge from one shore to another, or even know where the mist has ceded to landfall.

~ Barbara Kingsolver

Jesus was a bachelor and never lived with a woman. Surely living with a woman is one of the most difficult things a man has to do, and he never did it.

~ James Joyce

For everything sacred has the substance of dreams and memories, and so we experience the miracle of what is separated from us by time or distance suddenly being made tangible.

~ Yukio Mishima