Culture Quotes - Page 26

As I am from Hawaiʻi, the ocean is part of my culture and who I am. My ancestors were great ocean explorers.

No system in history capitalism has been more relentless in battering down ancient and fragile cultures, devouring the resources of whole regions, pulverizing centuries-old practices in a matter of years, and standardizing the varieties of human experience.

Yeah, I don't deal with current events or pop culture, and I avoid politics like the plague.

What would it be like to have not only color vision but culture vision, the ability to see the multiple worlds of others.

If you’re looking for the origins of film culture in America, look no further than Amos Vogel.

Massive immigration brings with it cultures that are sometimes in contradiction with our values.

The whole point of American culture is to pick up any old piece of trash and make it shine with more facets than the Hope Diamond.

We want to understand what works here rather than what worked at any other organization.

More than any other product of human scientific culture scientific knowledge is the collective property of all mankind.

And he gave it for his opinion, "that whoever could make two ears of corn, or two blades of grass, to grow upon a spot of ground where only one grew before, would deserve better of mankind, and do more essential service to his country, than the whole race of politicians put together.

In the bacteriology lab, we have culture plates. You put a bug in there and it starts growing and gets bigger and bigger and bigger. And it grows until it finally fills the whole plate. And it crashes and dies.

Learning is not easy, but hard; culture is severe. The steps to Parnassus are steep and terribly arduous.

Culture must have its ultimate aim in the metaphysical or it will cease to be culture.

As a nation, this is the moment to start seriously investing our time, energy and resources into proven methods of reducing violence, both within our nation as well as internationally. The cost of violence to our culture and our children is simply not sustainable.

Being part of The L Word made me realize how much more television can be that what I had experienced in my lifetime in terms of being able to be of service to people. I had so many fans come up to me who were really deeply appreciative of the show and what it had meant for them and their own sense of identity and their own sense of inclusion in our society and in our culture.

Soil erosion is as old as agriculture. It began when the first heavy rain struck the first furrow turned by a crude implement of tillage in the hands or prehistoric man. It has been going on ever since, wherever man's culture of the earth has bared the soil to rain and wind.

...Fan fiction is a way of the culture repairing the damage done in a system where contemporary myths are owned by corporations instead of owned by the folk.

It is not part of a true culture to tame tigers, any more than it is to make sheep ferocious.

When something really bad is going on in a culture, the average guy doesn't see it. He can't. He's average and is surrounded by and immersed in the cant and discourse of the status quo.

The most important word in American, in Western culture, is "I."

To speak a language is to take on a world, a culture.

Equal wealth and equal opportunities of culture have simply made us all members of one class.

Bring diversity back to agriculture. That's what made it work in the first place.

Moreover, behind this vague tendency to treat religion as a side issue in modern life, there exists a strong body of opinion that is actively hostile to Christianity and that regards the destruction of positive religion as absolutely necessary to the advance of modern culture

Cows are my passion. What I have ever sighed for has been to retreat to a Swiss farm, and live entirely surrounded by cows - and china.