Best culture & country Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“The more English is heard in the world, the more gratifying it seems to speak French, and above all to know the culture of our country. They find a kind of French social grace in the language and culture.”

Knows World Kind Country Seems Culture Speak Language Social Grace Heard Our Country Speaks French Social Graces

Author:Bernard Pivot

“A whole society imprints us. Language, television and culture imprints us Just living in a country is a vibratory imprint. All the collective attentions, of all the people who live there - imprint us.”

People Country Whole Culture Language Attention Awareness Television Buddhism Collectives

Author:Frederick Lenz

“French culture takes ageing very seriously. There's much less ageism than in Anglo-Saxon countries.”

Country Culture Ageing Ageism Anglo Saxon French Culture

Author:Kristin Scott Thomas

“And as journalists we look for differences - differences between countries, cultures, classes, and communities. We're very sensitized to difference, but it's much harder to write about similarities across countries, cultures, classes, and communities.”

Writing Looks Country Culture Community Differences Class Harder Journalist Similarity

Author:Amy Waldman

“My works are Chinese literature, which is part of world literature. They show the life of Chinese people as well as the country's unique culture and folk customs.”

People World Wells Country Shows Culture Literature Unique Folks Chinese Customs World Literature

Author:Mo Yan

“If there is one thing I long for above all else, it's that the years to come may see Christianity in this country able again to capture the imagination of our culture.”

Ifs Years May Long Art Country Able Culture Imagination Christianity One Thing Capture

Author:Rowan Williams

“The significance of the cherry blossom tree in Japanese culture goes back hundreds of years. In their country, the cherry blossom represents the fragility and the beauty of life. It's a reminder that life is almost overwhelmingly beautiful but that it is also tragically short.”

Years Country Beautiful Life Is Culture Tree Significance Reminders Cherries Beauty Of Life Fragility Japanese Culture Cherry Blossom

Author:Homaro Cantu

“America is the only country capable of producing national movies: its culture has become a global culture.”

Country America Culture Capable Producing Movies

Author:Jean-Jacques Annaud

“There are flaws in the way politics is reported in this country today and we should do something about it, .. Radio and television coverage of politics doesn't see its role as a mission to explain, but to destroy, in a pernicious culture in which journalists pit themselves against politicians.”

Way Should Country Today Culture Roles Television Politician Radio Missions Journalist Flaws Pits Coverage Pernicious

Author:Tim Allen

“Our guests have an insatiable curiosity for up close and personal worldwide adventures - whether one is taking a segment of the World Cruise or the entire voyage. Traveling to different countries aboard the luxurious floating resort that is Crystal Serenity is just one part of their experience. Our guests relish the opportunity to venture beyond the port cities to experience the destinations' culture, wildlife and unique treasures.”

“I think country needs to have a sporting culture. I think if sports were taken as curriculum in school and are encouraged in right way like government of Maharashtra and Haryana have done given Marks for Sports and encouraging them with good jobs.”

Ifs Thinking Way Needs Country Done Government School Jobs Culture Given Sports Taken Mark Right Way Good Job Curriculum Maharashtra

Author:Gagan Narang

“The great unmentionable evil at the center of our culture is monotheism. From a barbaric Bronze Age text known as the Old Testament, three anti-human religions have evolved -- Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. These are sky-god religions. They are, literally, patriarchal -- God is the Omnipotent Father -- hence the loathing of women for 2,000 years in those countries afflicted by the sky-god and his earthly male delegates.”

Source: The Decline and Fall of the American Empire

“More and more we're negating the validity of first-hand experience of people from other countries and other cultures... whether it's on TV, the Internet, mobile phones or whatever - the world system we live in so values second-hand information.”

People World Firsts Country Hands Values Culture Information Tvs Internet Phones Other Countries Mobile Validity Other Cultures Mobile Phones Second Hand First Hand Experience

Author:Nitin Sawhney

“Books are the way that we communicate with the dead. The way that we learn lessons from those who are no longer with us, that humanity has built on itself, progressed, made knowledge incremental rather than something that has to be relearned, over and over. There are tales that are older than most countries, tales that have long outlasted the cultures and the buildings in which they were first told.”

Way Firsts Long Made Book Country Humanity Culture Building Lessons Built Communicate Tales Learning Lessons

Book:The View from the Cheap Seats: Selected Nonfiction

Source: The View from the Cheap Seats: Selected Nonfiction

“I would say my being disheartened has more to do with American culture than anything else. We are becoming a very shallow culture. My goodness, the celebrity ethos has taken over completely. Turn on the television and you see that over and over. There's very little substance. And so, everything gets shorter. Everything is entertainment oriented. Our churches reflect that. A thirty-five minute sermon without a Power Point or video clips is rare these days. That's not true in other countries so much.”

“This country of ours has more wealth than any nation, but that's not what makes us rich. We have the most powerful military on Earth, but that's not what makes us strong. Our universities and our culture are the envy of the world, but that's not what keeps the world coming to our shores. Instead, it is that American spirit - that American promise - that pushes us forward even when the path is uncertain; that binds us together in spite of our differences; that makes us fix our eye not on what is seen, but what is unseen, that better place around the bend.”

“Culture is the widening of the mind and of the spirit. It is never a narrowing of the mind or a restriction of the human spirit or the country's spirit.”

Mind Humans Country Spirit Culture Human Spirit Restriction

Book:Speeches

Source: Speeches

“What a country, and what a culture, when the liberals cry before they are hurt, and the reactionaries pose as brave nonconformists, while the radicals make a fetish of their own jokey irrelevance.”

Country Culture Hurt Cry Brave Radical Reactionaries Fetish Irrelevance

Book:For the Sake of Argument: Essays and Minority Reports

Source: For the Sake of Argument: Essays and Minority Reports

“If they (Muslim women) wish to cover their faces and isolate themselves from the rest of the community and so thoroughly reject our culture then I cannot imagine why they want to be here at all. Perhaps they should just push off back to their own countries.”

Ifs Want Should Country Faces Culture Wish Community Imagine Rejects Muslim Women

Author:Norman Tebbit

“It has been said, "History is written by the victors." I take this to mean we can make ourselves victorious by writing, and then rewriting our own stories. In a country and culture so dominated by media, by the manipulation of words and stories, telling the tales of people whose stories historically have not been told is a radical act and I believe an act that can change the world and help rewrite history.”

People World Writing Believe Mean Has Beens Said Country Helping Stories Culture I Believe Written Media Tales Radical Changing The World Manipulation Rewriting

Author:Jennifer Beals

“Germany is a country that has absolutely had to since the Second World War ask itself massive moral questions. And it's reforged its identity based on culture. I mean, the amount of artists living and working in Berlin is unparalleled. It's one of the strongest economies, not only in Europe, but globally, and it's because of its understanding of the importance of culture.”

World Mean War Country Artist Culture Asks Understanding Moral Economy Identity Amount Europe Importance War Of The Worlds Germany Massive Strongest Berlin Second World War

Author:Cate Blanchett

“What I can't understand is why come here and try and change our country into the place that you've come from? And all I ask of people is come here, respect our country, respect our laws, our culture, our way of life. Be Australian, join us, enjoy this beautiful country and everything that it has to offer.”

People Way Trying I Can Country Beautiful Law Life Is Culture Asks Enjoy Offers Our Country Australian Beautiful Country

Author:Pauline Hanson

“Every now and then, you get people who tend to forget what this country is about, which is a melting pot of races and cultures and freedom of speech.”

People Country Culture Forget Race Speech Pot Now And Then Freedom Of Speech Melting Melting Pot

Author:Maynard James Keenan

“I think there is a potential civic culture in Arab countries that can lead to democratic institutions and I think Iraq is probably the best place to put that proposition to the test Well, you're going to find a disproportionate number of Jews in any sort of intellectual undertaking.”

Thinking Wells Country Culture Numbers Intellectual Tests Institutions Democratic Iraq Jew Propositions Civics Undertakings Best Place

Author:Richard Perle

“Much of the image of the amazingness of America comes from the movies into other cultures. And it's much the same thing when you reverse it. Much of Africa is presented through poverty, through drought and war. [But] you're not presenting people, you're not presenting countries, you're not presenting complexity, and so people can't care about an amorphous mass called Africa.”

People War Country Care America Culture Poverty Mass Complexity Reverse Presenting Drought Other Cultures

Author:Chris Abani

“Christianity in our country is a lot like what the Ducksters profess. No longer doctrinaire or demanding, the mishmash of pop-religion practiced in churches across America is an extension of the therapeutic culture: festooned with feelings, mostly misdirected. Untempered by intelligent interpretation of scripture... American pop-theology: light on doctrine, heavy on hellfire and damnation.”

Country Feelings Light America Culture Church Christianity Intelligent Heavy Pops Scripture Theology Doctrine Our Country Interpretation Extensions Therapeutic Damnation

Author:Ilana Mercer

“Superheroes are also about immigrants. Superman, the prototype of all superheroes, is a prototypical immigrant. His homeland was in crisis, so his parents sent him to America in search of a better life. He has two names, one American, Clark Kent, and the other foreign, Kal-El. He wears two sets of clothes and lives in between two cultures. He loves his new country, but a part of him still longs for his old one.”

Stills Two Book Country America Culture Names Parent Clothes Crisis Comic Immigrants Comic Book Superhero Better Life Homeland Prototype Kent Two Cultures

Author:Gene Luen Yang

“Culture of life is really important for a country to have if it's going to be a hospitable society.”

Ifs Important Country Life Is Culture

Author:George W. Bush

“No country has been more invigorated by immigrant culture, more rewarded by immigrant labor and immigrant ideas than America.”

Has Beens Ideas Country America Culture Labor Immigrants

Author:Marc Veasey

“The prosperity of a country depends, not on the abundance of its revenues, nor on the strength of its fortifications, nor on the beauty of its public buildings; but it consists in the number of its cultivated citizens, in its men of education, enlightenment and character.”

Men Country Character Culture Numbers Building Depends Citizens Enlightenment Prosperity Abundance Revenue Fortification

Author:Martin Luther

“Nostalgia is also a trait of the organizations that I call lodges - everything from corporate cultures to religious sects. Their bonding power often exceeds loyalty to family or country because they create intimacy through shared ideals and beliefs, ceremonies, stories, and legends, and depend on it for their survival. The message is clear: Don't question what we're doing. Just appreciate how long we've been doing it.”

Source: Thinking In The Future Tense

“In our country and in our times no man is worthy the honored name of statesman who does not include the highest practicable education of the people in all his plans of administration. He may have eloquence, he may have a knowledge of all history, diplomacy, jurisprudence; and by these he might claim, in other countries, the elevated rank of a statesman: but unless he speaks, plans, labors, at all times and in all places, for the culture and edification of the whole people, he is not, he cannot be, an American statesman.”

Source: Lectures on Education

“When you see Hitler burning paintings by Salvador Dali and Picasso he's telling you that this time period and these men and this culture didn't exist, and I've seen that happen in other countries, Sudan for instance, it's not enough to kill them you have to destroy all of their markings that they left that was their history.”

Men Country Enough Happens Culture Left Painting Periods Instance Burning Other Countries Sudan Time Periods

Author:George Clooney

“California ... is the place that sets the trends and establishes the values for the rest of the country; like a slow ooze, California culture spreads eastward across the land.”

Country Values Culture Land Spread California Trends

Author:Ada Louise Huxtable

“We will never know the extent of the damage movies are doing to us, but movie art, it appears, thrives on moral chaos. When the country is paralyzed, the popular culture may tell us why. After innocence, winners become losers. Movies are probably inuring us to corruption; the sellout is the hero-survivor for our times.”

Knows May Art Country Culture Moral Hero Chaos Corruption Innocence Winner Our Time Damage Thrive Survivor Loser Popular Culture Paralyzed

Book:For Keeps

Source: For Keeps

“Gossip is always a personal confession either of malice or imbecility, and the young should not only shun it, but by the most thorough culture relieve themselves from all temptation to indulge in it. It is a low, frivolous, and too often a dirty business. There are country neighborhoods in which it rages like a pest. Churches are split in pieces by it. Neighbors are made enemies by it for life. In many persons it degenerates into a chronic disease, which is practically incurable. Let the young cure it while they may.”

“Secretly in my heart, I believe food is a doorway to almost every dimension of our existence. ... Food never was just food. From the time a cave person first came out from under a rock, food has been a little bit of everything: who we are spiritually as well as what keeps us alive. It's a gathering place, and in the best of all worlds it's possible that when people of one country sit down to eat another culture's food it will open their minds to the culture itself. Food is a doorway to understanding, and it can be as profound or as facile as you would like it to be.”

“With material wealth and in a culture where many of us defines our self-worth by what we have and what we own and what we achieve, it's very hard to comprehend that there are enclaves all over our big country in which people are very purposefully choosing to maintain different values.”

People Different Self Country Hard Bigs Values Culture Wealth Achieve Materials Self Worth Material Wealth Different Values

Author:Debra Granik

“I'm not trying to explain other cultures, or to give a fair and balanced account of a country, or the top ten things you need to know. I'm not trying to spread world peace and understanding. I'm not an advocate or an activist or an educator or a journalist. I'm out there trying to tell stories the best I can.”

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Author:Anthony Bourdain

“No matter where we're born, which countries we're raised in, what cultures we come from, there are some universal experiences we all have as children. We all kind of start the same. We want the love of our parents, companionship, friends, we want to have fun, to play, and we're all hurt the first time we learn that the world is far from perfect place - it's the start of a series of epiphanies and realizations that is what growing up is all about.”

“The culture of the United States has flooded the world. It's the inevitable result of a powerful culture, art. We've got an instinctive touch when it comes to the popular mind because we've had no aristocracy. It is a democratic country. And we know without knowing it, without bothering to understand it, how to reach ordinary people, sometimes with the most vulgar, worthless junk on the face of the earth, but we know how to do it [laughter].”

“If Irish or Italian culture dies in America it really isn't that big a deal. They will still exist in Italy and Ireland. Not so with us. There is no other place. North America is our old country.”

Ifs Stills Country Bigs America Dies Culture Deals Italian Ireland North America Italian Culture

Book:Bloodlines: Odyssey of a Native Daughter

Source: Bloodlines: Odyssey of a Native Daughter

“I want to work; then, as my kids get older, I want to have adventures. I want to visit all their countries: learn and live inside all their cultures.”

Want Country Kids Culture Adventure

Author:Angelina Jolie

“I certainly hope the strengths and values of this country hold up to comparison to other cultures.”

Country Values Culture Comparison Other Cultures

Author:Bill Vaughan

“In the days of Ram Mohan Roy when English education was introduced in this country, the Mahomedans did not accept it... They did not accept English education and at the same time they were divorced from the culture which their fathers had advanced. The result was that whereas the Hindus got on in life, got into government employment, got many things which people value in life, the Mahomedans were left without it and gradually there came to be a sort of estrangement between the two nationalities at the time of the Swadeshi movement.”

People Two Country Government Values Culture Father Left Results Accepting Movement Employment Divorced Nationality Value Of Life Estrangement Rams English Education

Author:Chittaranjan Das

“We're Americans. I don't consider us to be evil, I just don't think we know any better. We're a really young culture. We're hillbillies, and the rest of the world sees us that way. I travel all over the world, and probably the only worse rednecks than us are the Australians. And they're an even younger country.”

Thinking Knows World Way Country Young Culture Evil Redneck

Author:Steve Earle

“I have great love and respect for Russian history and culture. But the world is changing and Russia is too. Russia is part of the modern world, not the world of the past but the modern world. And I believe it has an even greater future than some other countries that can't take care of their young people, of the new generations, of their children, and believe that they can just let things slide.”

“I am a passionate traveler, and from the time I was a child, travel formed me as much as my formal education. In order to appreciate cultures of another nation, one needs to go there, know the people and mingle with the culture of that country. One way to do that, if one is lucky enough, is to buy things from those cultures.”

People Ifs Knows Way Needs Children Country Enough Order Culture Nations Lucky Appreciate Passionate One Way Formal Traveler Formal Education

Author:David Rockefeller

“Whatever country you go to, you need to definitely follow the rules. So I believe it's very important for people, wherever they go, any immigrant should know or should try to learn something about the culture.”

People Knows Needs Should Trying Believe Important Country Culture I Believe Immigrants

Author:David Ortiz

“I find that other countries have this or this, but Italy is the only one that has it all for me. The culture, the cuisine, the people, the landscape, the history. Just everything to me comes together there.”

People Country Together Culture Landscape Other Countries Cuisine

Author:Frances Mayes

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