Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rodney Davis

We need to completely shed ourselves of the monopoly culture. It's very difficult for some to accept. We need to get our employees to operate as entrepreneurs within their own space.

Mahmoud Abbas

We must all be responsible and guard the land and the property because it will leave the impression on the world that we are cultured and deserve a state,

Edward Hirsch

There's never been a culture without poetry in the history of the world.

Flea

For me it's the high-water mark of American culture - not so much contemporary jazz, which has become kind of academic, but the jazz from the '20s on through the '70s.

Eden Sher

I would love to be able to see as much of the world as possible, and volunteering, doing things in another community, living with a host family, are really effective ways to learn about cultures different from your own. And also to not feel lazy.

Geoffrey Canada

When I was growing up, kids used to talk about snitching... It never extended as a cultural norm outside of the gangsters.

We're trying to recreate the culture that existed before.

Ferdinand Marcos

I can understand the Cultural Revolution of Mao Tse-tung.

Gloria Steinem

Rich cultures, patriarchal cultures, value thin women, like ours; poor ones value fat women. But all patriarchal cultures value weak women. So for women to become physically strong is very profound.

David Gerrold

In the past, a great library was the result of librarians functioning as guardians of culture, tending and caring, selecting and recommending works that maintained and nurtured a cultural heritage.

Howard Rheingold

The more material there is, the more need there is for filters. You don't need a printing press anymore, but you do need people who know how to cultivate sources, double-check information and put the brand of legitimacy on it.

John Berger

The industrial society... recognises nothing except the power to acquire... No other kind of hope or satisfaction or pleasure can any longer be envisaged within the culture of capitalism.

When you get into a different culture, for me, I was in shock. If I need to be productive in my job, I don't need to have these problems.

This sale will be a truly exceptional event. With the exception of the great spiritual leaders, his influence on Western culture is more profound than any individual who has lived.

There is a culture of pessimism in Germany. There is a sense that something can go wrong and they tend to look around for it.

There is a culture of pessimism in Germany.

There is a culture of impunity that no one would be held fully accountable for detainee deaths.

Dennis Potter

There is a culture of anti-Mormonism on this campus.

Whenever I hear the word culture, I reach for my Browning!

We're trying to cultivate these deals as fast as we can.

We salute you for your steadfastness in maintaining the faith of your ancestral tradition, as well as your love for the beautiful, spiritual, cultural and folk traditions in which you reverently persevere. Truly it is out of respect and love for the memory of your forebears that you have clung to your ecclesiastical and ancestral customs.

We think the safety and health culture may have been a little lax at this plant. Some of these violations had existed for years.

Billie Armstrong

We were watching things unfold, surrounded by all that was going on in the news and pop culture. I wanted to say the most controversial (things) I could while still keeping the songs smart and articulate. And there's a sense of humor there, which makes it more inviting than if I were just pointing fingers.

We're all delighted to be enshrined in one of the icons of pop culture. Yow! Are we having fun!

Kurt Vonnegut

What passes for culture in my head is really a bunch of commercials.

David Bentley

The truth of no truths becomes, inevitably, truth: a way of naming being, language, and culture that guards the boundaries of thought against claims it has not validated.

David Mamet

Culture exists and evolves to relegate to habit categories of interactions the constant conscious reference to which would make human interaction impossible.

Colin Firth

I was delighted to become a popular-culture reference point. I'm still delighted about it actually, and I still find it to be weird.

Because it's not only that a child is inseparable from the family in which he lives, but that the lives of families are determined by the community in which they live and the cultural tradition from which they come.

Stephen Jay Gould

We must [it has been arued] go beyond reductionism to a holistic recognition that biology and culture interpenetrate in an inextricable manner.

Susan Cain

Men are more likely to be introverted than women are, but it's really very slight. But the real difference I think is in how it plays out, how it relates to cultural stereotypes.

When public policy goes one way and the premises of the culture go the other, you've got a formula for an unsustainable system of education,

Janet Fitch

While out on the perimeter, women discovered the freedom of badlands. They were curiously free to invent, without having to liberate themselves from the forms and rewards of the cultural norm.