Culture Quotes - Page 60

Mr. President, it may surprise my colleagues, but I am no fan of federal disaster programs for agriculture. They are difficult to pass and often a disaster to implement.

Security for agriculture merits serious concern by not only the agricultural community but our nation as a whole. The risk to the U.S. food supply and overall economy is real.

Art is not entertainment. Art is not luxury goods. Art is culture. It is you and me.

It is inescapable that every culture must negotiate with technology, whether it does so intelligently or not. A bargain is struck in which technology giveth and technology taketh away.

What is fetus farming? Simply put, it is the creation and development of a human fetus for the purposes of later killing it for research or for harvesting its organs.

It is simply not part of my culture to preserve notes. I have never heard of a writer preserving his early drafts.

Outside of Paris, there is no hope for the cultured.

Afghan society is very complex, and Afghanistan has a very complex culture. Part of the reason it has remained unknown is because of this complexity.

If the majority culture know so little about us, it must be our problem, they seem to be telling us; the burden of teaching is on us.

On the professional side, those 18 years on the farm instilled my love for agriculture.

In England you're skewered on the altar of pop culture if you become pretentious.

Morals are built on religious faith. Virtue is built on morality and influences a culture.

Soaps taught me the fundamentals of the game. You know, how to show up, hit your mark, how to be on time. That soap opera world is a microcosm of the entertainment culture.

But I don't bet the farm on any of those possibilities, either. I'm also preparing, intelligently, to walk away from this, and walk away from it happy to have had the experience.

The whole problem of industrial agriculture is putting all of your eggs in one basket. We need to diversify our food chains as well as our fields so that when some of them fail, we can still eat.

On this National Agriculture Day, when we all should be taking time to thank and pay tribute to America's farmers, ranchers and their families who produce the food for our tables, we are finding those same people in dire need of our help and support.

We cannot live by power, and a culture that seeks to live by it becomes brutal and sterile. But we can die without it.

The administration's attempt to keep us from selling agricultural products to Cuba is an outrage. Cuba is not a threat. That is why we must do more to open Cuba - not less.

We share a culture focused on our clients.

Culture is the passion for sweetness and light, and (what is more) the passion for making them prevail.

The critic roams through culture, looking for prey.

I think one can live in American society with a certain cultural heritage, whether it's an African heritage or other, European,what have you, and still absorb a great deal of this culture. There is always cultural assimilation.

Being inoffensive, and being offended, are now the twin addictions of the culture.

The visual power of the phonetic alphabet is the translate other languages into itself is part of its power to invade right hemisphere (oral) cultures.

I certainly can't speak for all cultures or all societies, but it's clear that in America, poetry serves a very marginal purpose. It's not part of the cultural mainstream.