Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Edmund White

Paradoxically, since gay men rarely have gay parents, cultural transmission must come from friends or strangers (a problem since the generations so seldom mix in gay life).

Akira Kurosawa

Japan does not understand very well that one of its proudest cultural achievements is in film,

Donald Harrison

Jazz is cultural music in New Orleans. It's part of the fabric of everyday life, and everybody knows the music. It's always going to be a part of it.

Managing water is as much cultural as technical, reflecting how peoples and communities relate themselves to nature.

John Bolton

Management reform is not a one-night stand. Management reform is forever. What we really need is a cultural revolution in terms of reform at the United Nations,

I think that was a contribution to the community, an enlightening cultural exchange,

It is important that a good sales staff know which product works on what pest. It is also important for retailers to know when to recommend good cultural practices. Not every problem in the home landscape can be cured from a pesticide bottle.

Yo-Yo Ma

Our (nation's) cultural strength has always been derived from our diversity of understanding and experience.

Gurinder Chadha

We were delighted to find out that here was someone in the US who was exploring the same themes as us, in terms of diaspora, culture, cultural negotiations and identity.

The region needs peace, economic development and real exercise of cultural rights for Kurds.

Mona Simpson

We have all these cultural assumptions about love. People get hurt, and we say, 'Oh, it's no one's fault.'

We have always felt that the fellowships in question were but a small part of an overall graduate program that provides opportunities for thousands of our students, from every imaginable cultural background, to pursue graduate degrees while working at Southern Illinois University.

Mary Harris

We've learned about the different cultural dances and dress. And the food is great, too.

Ang Lee

I was nervous last time, likely because I shouldered a cultural mission for reinvigorating the Chinese-language film industry back then.

Mira Nair

Middle-class Pakistani cultural life is what I've seen, what I know - they're not all screaming faceless mullahs. It's disturbing that in American films, the character on the other side is not even named.

Will the new population demand that the cultural feel of the French Quarter, the Garden District and the rest stay the same? ... Or will they be OK with a lot of new shopping malls taking over? Who knows?

Jane Fonda

The '60s may be idealized in the movie from a cultural point of view, but the decade was all about discord and a big generational split that was very painful.

Robert Solow

well-functioning markets have no innate tendency to promote excellence in any form. They offer no resistance to forces making for a descent into cultural barbarity or moral depravity.

We were looking for a unique cultural experience for the kids, a soccer culture, someplace where soccer is it, and soccer is definitely it in Italy.

Tabare Vazquez

The left has not been impermeable to the neo-liberal cultural revolution, and has incorporated some of its elements, like the need for fiscal balance, open trade and competitiveness.

Cody and Luther were kids in high school who used to come to the juke joint and sit in the corner, petrified of interacting. But I didn't look at Junior and R.L. as giant heroes of the blues. I looked at them as living continuations of Fred McDowell and John Lee Hooker and guys like that. It was a cultural experience for me.

Due to the prosperity of our tourism industry recently, cultural organizations, which are also growing, are seeing a portion of that prosperity.

Li Zhaoxing

Everything we do is for improving the people's livelihood, that includes guaranteeing the people's property rights, political rights and cultural and education rights and democratic development rights.

There's still this cultural hangover from a different era, when you could get a good job without a postsecondary education. That era is over.

Annalee Newitz

People who gentrify are usually new transplants to a city, changing it to suit their particular cultural needs and whims.

Cultural export worldwide is dominated by the world's superpowers, who have the finances, operatives and media machine to export what they deem important.

Robert Hunter

This could be the cultural linchpin of downtown Palmetto.

This is a cultural problem in Europe. (People) want to keep all their comforts, all their security, vacations, all their job packages.

They've gone to the trouble to try to educate people that there is a cultural taboo there,

This is an important cultural moment. This is the first true national ID card.

It's just another instance where the cultural wars are going to be fought out in our classrooms.

Stephen Perkins

It's a side of museums that many people don't see and sometimes don't understand when they see it in your budget. It's something that happens out of the way and it's not flashy but we're ensuring the long-term health of the cultural legacy of the area.