Quotes about history and Culture

Debate and divergence of views can only enrich our history and culture. Votes: 4

I love Pittsburgh because it's a humble city. It's really grounded in its rich history and culture. Votes: 4

No revolution creates a wholly new universe. Rather, it reflects the history and culture that spawned it. Votes: 3

I realised that although I was fascinated with America, its history and culture, I was not interested in becoming American. Votes: 3

The centuries-old history and culture of India, majestic architectural monuments and museums of Delhi, Agra and Mumbai have a unique attractive force. Votes: 3

What gets in our way is history and culture and religion and economic conditions. It is part of the hypnosis of our social conditioning. Votes: 3

I believe in monogamy if that's what a couple decides upon together, but it all depends on the personal history and culture of the two involved. Votes: 3

I've always found that the best travelers are the very same people who are intensely interested in the history and culture of their own home city. Votes: 3

Our job is not to worship history and culture like fetishes, but to feed them into our living, creative stream of personal life for spiritual and intellectual reprocessing. Votes: 3

To believe that I could, at twenty-three, sacrifice history and culture for the Absolute was further proof that I had not understood India. My vocation was culture, not sainthood. Votes: 3

They [some countries] borrowed money to go acquire things, Indian power plants and Danish newspapers and British soccer teams. And they did it willy-nilly, and they themselves a story, that Icelandic history and culture and DNA leaves us very well-suited to being investment bankers. Votes: 3

In time, foods such as hamburgers and ice cream became more than just meals. They became part of American history and culture, touchstones that are almost immediately nostalgic and sentimental no matter how old you are or what part of the country you are from. Votes: 3

I've always liked Southeast Asia a lot. It's a wonderful place, an easy place. People are great, there's a lot of history and culture, and I like the serenity of Buddhism there. It's very beautiful. I find that to be a very nice place to visit. Votes: 3

This is a good time to ask apologists for the Islamic regime, who degrades Islam? Who imposes stoning, forced marriage of underage girls and flogging for not wearing the veil? Do such practices represent Iran's ancient history and culture, its ethnic and religious diversity? Its centuries of sensual and subversive poetry? Votes: 3

Instead of being a page-turner, 'Moby-Dick' is a repository of American history and culture and the essentials of Western literature. The book is so encyclopedic that space aliens could use it to re-create the whale fishery as it once existed on the planet Earth in the midst of the 19th century. Votes: 3

I'm not sure I would make a direct connection between having press attention as a young person and being interested in the media as an older person. I came to it more organically, coming from a family of Irish Catholic storytellers. Storytelling is a pastime and important part of my family's history and culture. Votes: 3

Whenever you're writing a book or creating a movie or a game, your first task is to get the reader/audience/player to suspend disbelief, to buy into the logic and boundaries of your world, even though those boundaries might include things like dragons and magic. To do that, you need long threads - of history and culture. Votes: 3

Now, I know it's a widespread assumption in the West that as countries modernize, they also westernize. This is an illusion. It's an assumption that modernity is a product simply of competition, markets and technology. It is not. It is also shaped equally by history and culture. China is not like the West, and it will not become like the West. Votes: 3

Countries and places have a history, a story, and a culture. Votes: 2

Our culture, language, history, and values are vital to uniting us as a nation. Votes: 2

Pools have their own uniqueness, design and engineering to depict culture, history or innovation. Votes: 2

History is cyclical, and it would be foolhardy to assume that the culture wars will never return. Votes: 2

A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots. Votes: 2

To me, British fashion has a story. It has history, and I feel it's very much about our culture. Votes: 2

Proper history teaching is being crushed under the weight of play-based pedagogy which infantilises children, teachers and our culture. Votes: 2

Our culture now wonderfully, alchemically transforms images and history into artistic material. The possibilities seem endless and wide open. Votes: 2

My whole life, I had been taught to read and study, to seek understanding in knowledge of history, of cultures. Votes: 2

Mexico and the U.S. are bound not only because of the common border, but by a shared culture and history. Votes: 2

Larry Summers, I think, he had a long history of arrogance and relative ignorance about poor people's culture and working people's culture and so forth. Votes: 2

In high school, I loved history. I also loved cosmography, algebra. Mexico is so rich in culture and history, and I have always enjoyed that. Votes: 2

Consider the bloody history of Europe: there was a great aspiration for high culture, yet this very same culture was shaped by brutality and barbarism. Votes: 2

I actively pursue experiences that are unlike any others that I've experienced and cultures that I don't know and unfamiliar places and unfamiliar history and things like that. Votes: 2

It seems that writing chose me. I feel that because I know history, and I know the history of so many cultures; I have lived a large life. Votes: 2

History has shown that one cannot legislate a culture of integrity. And yet, one of the paramount responsibilities and challenges of corporate leadership is to ensure such a culture. Votes: 2

I love California. It has such a strong contribution to the history of culture, and popular culture. For better and worse, of course. Even the worst can be interesting to some degree sometimes for somebody creative. Votes: 2

I lived in Greece for about four years of my life, and living there had a huge impact on my life growing up. My father was very much adamant that we would learn about our culture. It's a very rich culture to be a part of since it has such a great history behind it. I definitely carry that in my job, and I am very passionate. Votes: 2

History shows that when the church accommodates culture, it weakens it. Votes: 0

The history of a culture can be determined by its untranslatable words. Votes: 0

America is the world's top war-master; the most sophisticated killer-culture in history. Votes: 0

If you research history, I think we are all Jewish. It's the original culture. Votes: 0

Culture is simultaneously the fruit of a people's history and a determinant of history. Votes: 0

The history of modern culture is a history of popular entertainments evolving into art. Votes: 0

If history tells us anything, it is that human culture and knowledge are constantly evolving. Votes: 0

Anthropologists say that in every culture in history, children have played the game hide and seek. Votes: 0

I think really, China, Chinese, I think they really have a long history of civilization, rich culture. Votes: 0

The history of ideas is littered with the corpses of those who have tried to define culture. Votes: 0

I'm the Latin artist who has been the most successful in history at representing the Latin culture. Votes: 0

If we learn anything from the history of economic development, it is that culture makes all the difference. Votes: 0

A man will not need to study history to find out what is best for his own culture. Votes: 0

Feminism gave me a way to see myself in culture, in society, in history, and that was very important. Votes: 0

American culture is not about experiencing our shame, it's about denying it. It's been that way our whole history. Votes: 0

The first step in liquidating a people is to erase its memory. Destroy its books, its culture, its history. Votes: 0

The imagination is the goal of history. I see culture as an effort to literally realize our collective dreams. Votes: 0

I know about technology, about research, scientific applications, culture, civilization, differences between nations of the world, the nature of history. Votes: 0

People's wardrobes in history are something that society and culture imposed. But sexuality is not about the way you dress. Votes: 0

There's a phenomenology of being sick, one that depends on temperament, personal history, and the culture which we live in. Votes: 0

The thread of culture that runs through the entire history of punk is also a dedication to challenging the authoritarian. Votes: 0

Truth can never be confined to time and culture; in history it is known, but it also reaches beyond history. Votes: 0

I'm interested in the history of ideas and how these ideas take on flesh and influence culture, and the church. Votes: 0

Everyone who raps isn't hip-hop. To be hip-hop, you've got to know the culture. You got to know the history. Votes: 0

After pop art, graffiti is probably the biggest art movement in recent history to have such an impact on culture. Votes: 0

When men die, they enter history. When statues die, they enter art. This botany of death is what we call culture. Votes: 0

Systematic philosophical and practical anti-intellectualism such as we are witnessing appears to be something truly novel in the history of human culture. Votes: 0

This history of culture will explain to us the motives, the conditions of life, and the thought of the writer or reformer. Votes: 0

As an artist you are free to use any image, any style, any idea from any culture and any period of history. Votes: 0

I was a history major in school. I review the past a lot and think about music history and how culture unfolds. Votes: 0

The moment somebody's a president and you call him "Mr. President," (the person represents) our culture, our history, our sense as our nation. Votes: 0

I respect the British a lot - their history, their past, their culture. I think it's beautiful, what they have with the monarchy. Votes: 0

I really like England. I like the lifestyle and the country. The history. The culture, which London is full of. The country pursuits. Votes: 0

It is impossible to understand history, international politics, the world economy, religions, philosophy, or ‘patterns of culture’ without taking geography into account. Votes: 0

The division yin and yang pervades all culture, history, economics, nature itself; modern Western versions of sex discrimination are only the most recent layer. Votes: 0

By a quirk of culture and history, it could be that China has arrived today where many other 'more developed countries' will arrive tomorrow. Votes: 0

An indigenous feminism has been present in every culture in the world and in every period of history since the suppression of women began. Votes: 0

Tokyo may have more money and Kyoto more culture; Nara may have more history and Kobe more style. But Osaka has the biggest heart. Votes: 0

This is a good thing, mixing culture to make something new, something no one has ever seen. This is kind of a new history. Votes: 0

A culture is not only the language and the arts of a people. It is all their history, all their hopes for the future. Votes: 0

All objects, all phases of culture are alive. They have voices. They speak of their history and interrelatedness. And they are all talking at once! Votes: 0

Culture, the acquainting ourselves with the best that has been known and said in the world, and thus with the history of the human spirit. Votes: 0

If during their education our youths become alienated from their language, history, ancestors, culture and civilization, it means there is a very serious educational problem there. Votes: 0

You've got to marinate your head, in that time and culture. You've got to become them." (Speaking about researching, and reading, and immersing yourself in History) Votes: 0

The capitalist distribution network, a complex chain of factory, transport, warehouse and retail outlet, is one of the greatest male accomplishments in the history of culture. Votes: 0

Anger does not make history. Power does. And power may be supplemented by anger, but it derives from more fundamental realities; geography, demographics, technology, and culture. Votes: 0

Every problem in history is due to men, so I'm basically asking for humanity to nest itself in a feminine culture, probably for the next 1,000 years. Votes: 0

How do you make any sense of history, art or literature without knowing the stories and iconography of your own culture and all the world's main religions? Votes: 0

Our culture's obsession with vintage objects has rendered us unable to separate history from nostalgia. People want heart. They want a chaser of emotion with their aesthetics. Votes: 0

Ever since studying in Russia as a college student, I had been in a long-distance, one-sided love affair with Chechnya's remarkable history, culture and rugged natural beauty. Votes: 0

As you study vampire legend throughout history, it goes back to almost every culture. South Africa, Indonesia, crazy places have that legend and that idea of immortality. Votes: 0

I'm interested in Russian language, culture, history... and I lived there, for four years, as a reporter for the Washington Post and have visited many times since. Votes: 0

It is my hope that as we commemorate Black History Month in the future, we will continue to celebrate the many achievements and rich culture of African-Americans. Votes: 0

Eight Hours For What We Will is a major contribution to modern American working-class history and to the history of a changing American popular and mass culture. Votes: 0

New Orleans is one of the most exciting, incredible communities in the world. There's such a rich culture and history, and there are innumerable things to do. Votes: 0

If you're fortunate enough with your history, like with Men in the Cities, your work becomes so absorbed in culture that the authorship of it doesn't exist anymore. Votes: 0

How can we ever understand what we are and where we belong in the universe if we haven't experienced anything outside of our own nation, culture, or history? Votes: 0

I don't have space to enter into the examples or the history of this, so I'm left with having to make the bold statement that culture is extinct. Votes: 0

Poverty is not the simple result of bad geography, bad culture, bad history. It's the result of us: of the ways that people choose to organize their societies. Votes: 0

I'm the Latin artist who has been the most successful in history at representing the Latin culture. The stylings of my words are immodest, but it's the truth. Votes: 0

It is simply that we treat Japanese history, the history of the Japanese people and its unique culture with greater respect and interest. This generates enormous interest in Russia! Votes: 0

Throughout history, it took centuries for the habits of one culture to materially affect another. Now, that which becomes popular in one country can sweep through others within months. Votes: 0

I didn't choose Russia but Russia chose me. I had been fascinated from an early age by the culture, the language, the literature and the history to the place. Votes: 0

History and geology show what an eyeblink it's been since our current, comfortable culture came about. And yet that culture is using up absolutely everything at a ferocious rate. Votes: 0

Where race is involved, there is a pronounced and proven tendency in the United States for the majority culture to willfully misremember the history and turn it upside down. Votes: 0

...a nation could change its way of life, its history, its technology, its art, literature, and culture, but it would never have a real chance to change its gestures. Votes: 0

You have to accustom yourself to practical study at home, you have to devote time to studies, to the history of chess, the development of chess, of chess culture. Votes: 0

I wasn't reading it [the Bible] as literature. I was reading it as literature, and as history, and as a moral guide, and as anthropology and law and culture. Votes: 0

Culture is a window reflecting the history, culture and spiritual world of a nation, .. Cultural exchange is a bridge to enhance the mutual understanding and friendship between the people of different nations. Votes: 0

As industrial technology advances and enlarges, and in the process assumes greater social, economic, and political force, it carries people away from where they belong by history, culture, deeds, association, and affection. Votes: 0