“New Orleans, more than many places I know, actually tangibly lives its culture. It's not just a residual of life; it's a part of life. Music is at every major milestone of our life: birth, marriage, death. It's our culture.” KnowsCultureOur LivesBirthMajorsMusic IsNew OrleansParts Of LifeMilestoneResidual Author:Wendell Pierce
“Men in all societies possess the biological equipment to remove their hats or shoes, but it is the birth within a particular culture that decides that a Jew will keep his hat and shoes on in his place of worship, a Mohammedan will take off his shoes, and a Christian will keep his shoes on but remove his hat.” MenChristianCultureParticularBirthBehaviorWorshipShoesJewHatsRemoveEquipmentPlaces Of Worship Book:MAN'S RISE TO CIVILIZATION Source: MAN'S RISE TO CIVILIZATION
“If we lived in a culture that valued women's autonomy and in which men and women practiced cooperative birth control, the abortion issue would be moot.” IfsMenWould BeCultureIssuesBirthMen And WomenAbortionAutonomyBirth ControlCooperatives Author:Christiane Northrup
“By education I am an Englishman, by views an internationalist, by culture a Muslim and a Hindu only by accident of birth.” CultureViewsBirthAccidentsEnglishmen Author:Jawaharlal Nehru
“Childbirth takes place at the intersection of time; in all cultures it links past, present and future. In traditional cultures birth unites the world of 'now' with the world of the ancestors, and is part of the great tree of life extending in time and eternity.” WorldPastCultureTreeBirthEternityTraditionalLinksAncestorChildbirthExtendingPast PresentPast Present And FutureIntersectionsTree Of Life Author:Sheila Kitzinger
“The life-history of the individual is first and foremost an accommodation to the patterns and standards traditionally handed down in his community. From the moment of his birth the customs into which he is born shape his experience and behavior. By the time he can talk, he is the little creature of his culture, and by the time he is grown and able to take part in its activities, its habits are his habits, its beliefs his beliefs, its impossibilities his impossibilities.” FirstsLittlesMomentsAbleCultureIndividualBeliefBornCommunityBirthHabitActivityShapesCreaturesBehaviorStandardsPatternsCustomsImpossibilityAccommodations Author:Ruth Benedict
“Before the birth of the New Woman the country was not an intellectual desert, as she is apt to suppose. There were teachers of thehighest grade, and libraries, and countless circles in our towns and villages of scholarly, leisurely folk, who loved books, and music, and Nature, and lived much apart with them. The mad craze for money, which clutches at our souls to-day as la grippe does at our bodies, was hardly known then.” DoeBookSoulCountryBodyCultureMoneyKnownTeacherBirthIntellectualTownsMadLibraryFolksCirclesDesertGradesVillageClutchScholarlyOur TownCrazeBooks And Music Author:Rebecca Harding Davis