Culture Quotes

The first 10 days of a cattle drive were the most critical, as a stampede was most likely when the cattle were closest to their habitual home.

~ H.w. Brands

The more you keep your door closed, the more you will rot! Open your door! Let different ideas, different beliefs, different cultures and different attitudes flow into your mind. Anything different will help you to enlarge your little world! By opening your door, you invite the whole universe to your tiny house! Enlarge your house and enrich yourself! As long as your door remains closed, you shall continue rotting in your poor world!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Our problem right now is that we're so specialized that if the lights go out, there are a huge number of people who are not going to know what to do. But within every dystopia there's a little utopia.

~ Margaret Atwood

It always matters who the storyteller is. It’s a lens.

~ James Still

She loves filming and taking photographs. I can imagine her making beautiful films in France or India or somewhere with a gorgeously colourful culture. She somehow reminds me of my favourite place in the world, she and Paris I can romanticize and immortalize in ceaseless poetry for the rest of my life.

~ Moonshine Noire

In my own opinion, the average American's cultural shortcomings can be likened to those of the educated barbarians of ancient Rome. These were barbarians who learned to speak--and often to read and write--Latin. They acquired Roman habits of dress and deportment. Many of them handily mastered Roman commercial, engineering and military techniques--but they remained barbarians nonetheless. They failed to develop any understanding, appreciation or love for the art and culture of the great civilization around them.

~ J. Paul Getty

Do not justify art, once you do, it limits the feelings it is apt to inflict. Art with Boundaries shadows all its principles.

~ Unarine Ramaru

Explore Art without a campus, it is fulfilling in the unknown.

~ Unarine Ramaru

What the culture of get rich quick does to our people is People want to get something for nothing.

~ Sunday Adelaja

Our government, media houses, schools, must focus on creating a new culture in our society. A culture of work. A culture of labour. A culture of diligence. A culture of hard work. A culture of perseverance. A culture of persistence. A culture of DIGNITY OF LABOUR.

~ Sunday Adelaja

Custom is a shroud that conceals everything. Not without first encountering the uncustomary will we be able to recognize what is customary and, more importantly, to change it. Such is the impulse behind our conversation with the vampryoteuthis

~ Vilém Flusser

What the culture of get rich quick does to our people is armed robbery and theft becomes the order of the day.

~ Sunday Adelaja

What the new government of Nigeria and other African governments must do, is to start a massive reorientation campaign in the culture of the dignity of labour.

~ Sunday Adelaja

What the culture of get rich quick does to our people is People don’t believe that hard work is worth it.

~ Sunday Adelaja

What the culture of get rich quick does to our people is the escapist mentality becomes prevalent, giving birth to the syndrome of economic refugees.

~ Sunday Adelaja

The depth of your art is subject to originality, Your own authentic style.

~ Unarine Ramaru

The road itself tells us far more than signs do.

~ Tom Vanderbilt

We will go no place where we cannot take our Master with us. While others take their liberty to sin, We will not renounce our liberty to rebuke and confront them.

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

I see that the culture that is prevalent right now in Nigeria and indeed Africa is the culture of GET RICH QUICK.

~ Sunday Adelaja

The myth is not my own, I have it from my mother. Euripides

~ Joseph Campbell

Her heart filled with boundless love that surged anew for her father. She felt like rushing to him and planting a quick kiss on his cheek the way she used to when she was a small girl. However, these villagers are not in the habit of kissing their offspring after they grow up. They show their love and affection by stroking their heads, addressing them in endearing words and blessing them.

~ Swarnakanthi Rajapakse

For a nation to be truly great, she must first identify her national values, enumerate her virtues and formulate her value system. But the most tasking of all these is to develop a culture in her people, that will best represent the proclaimed value systems of the nation.

~ Sunday Adelaja

How to teach again what has been taught correctly it incorrectly 1000 thousand times, throughout the millenniums of mankind's prudent folly? That is the hero's ultimate difficult task. How to render back into light-world language the speech-defying pronouncements of the dark? Many failures attest to the difficulties of this life-affirmative threshold.

~ Joseph Campbell

I inherited curiosity from my Dad.

~ Tom Clancy

According to the Buddha's doctrine that they believed in, it was not the caste that defined a person high or low. It was one's deeds that mattered.

~ Swarnakanthi Rajapakse

Culture is the celebration of diversity. Let us therefore not deny our origin; but instead celebrate ours as a cultural mosaic not a tower of Babel , but a power of Babel

~ Ali A. Mazrui

He did not consider public opinion to be accurate at long range.

~ Stephen Crane

It is the culture that makes the difference. When there is no internal transformation, there cannot be external progress and development whatsoever.

~ Sunday Adelaja

I'm Jewish in the way Olive Garden is an Italian restaurant.

~ A.j. Jacobs

A new movement reinforced by activists such as Buddhist monks, physicians who practised traditional medicine, teachers, farmers, and laborers brought Prime Minister Bandaranaike into the political helm. The leaders of the Davulawatta community considered this election a personal achievement. They saw this as a people's government and appreciated its genuine interest in fulfilling the needs of the common people. They trusted that the present government would eradicate poverty and the caste discrimination, and work to promote self-esteem.

~ Swarnakanthi Rajapakse

The author finds any freaking, and remarkably objective, way to estimate religion's influence on American society before the Civil War. The population closely aligned with evangelical sympathies was three or four times the size of the voting population in 1860

~ Mark A. Noll

Killing life in whatever way, will drag you along the hell's way.

~ Swarnakanthi Rajapakse

If the woman has the physical fitness and the meritorious luck to bear his children, the family was a fortunate one. Villagers always looked at sterility with a squinted eye, and its fault and the misfortune lay solely on the woman's part. As such, a childless woman often became culprit for her entire life.

~ Swarnakanthi Rajapakse

Physical beauty or sexual attraction in a woman was not a criterion in deciding, strengthening, or the survival of such relationships of these villagers.

~ Swarnakanthi Rajapakse

Cultural values change with times, unless they are built on an absolute standard of values and virtues. This standard must be afterwards well-guarded and protected.

~ Sunday Adelaja

Maggie was ten years younger than him. Being cross-cousins, they lived in the same compound, in the same two houses that still existed. When their parents told him to take her for his wife, there was nothing for him to think deep into the matter. They simply obeyed their parents. Accordingly, she came over to sleep in his house. In this, manner they remained as man and wife for a period of over thirty years.

~ Swarnakanthi Rajapakse

In my opinion, one of the answers to the question of underdevelopment of nations, is in the CULTURE of DIGNITY OF LABOR.

~ Sunday Adelaja

Carolina protected her so that Suneetha should remain a virgin until her wedding night. The worth of such purity in character was immeasurable in this society and culture. Therefore, she never even allowed Suneetha to go with other village girls when they went to the desolate cinnamon gardens to gather firewood.

~ Swarnakanthi Rajapakse

Just as we seldom realize that we are growing old until we are already old, so do the contemporary actors in a major social change seldom realize that society is changing until the change has already come.

~ James Burnham

Every book purchase made from Amazon is a vote for a culture without content and without contentment.

~ Ursula K. Le Guin