Quotes about Culture
The equation of evolution with progress represents our strongest cultural impediment to a proper understanding of this greatest biological revolution in the history of human thought.
- Stephen Jay Gould
I'm interested in the history of ideas and how these ideas take on flesh and influence culture, and the church.
- Kevin Vanhoozer
Historically, I come from Jewish history. I had the classic upbringing in the Yeshiva, learning, learning, and more learning.
- Elie Wiesel
Those comfortably padded lunatic asylums which are known euphemistically as the stately homes of England.
- Virginia Woolf
To all our means of culture is added the powerful incentive to personal ambition, no post of honor is so high but the poorest may hope to reach it.
- James A. Garfield
I hope my books make statements about our general condition.
- William Golding
The arts and humanities teach us who we are and what we can be. They lie at the very core of the culture of which we're a part.
- Ronald Reagan
I'm the type of individual that I enjoy watching any different cultural lives, and I see the common humanity even though the hair textures are different or the skin tones are varied.
- Angela Bassett
Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book.
- Cicero
American rock has a sort of self-pitying whine to it.
- Bill Bailey
There is a mandate to impose a voluntary return to traditional values.
- Ronald Reagan
If there is one thing I long for above all else, it's that the years to come may see Christianity in this country able again to capture the imagination of our culture.
- Rowan Williams