Quotes about Culture

I wouldn't mind a little bow. In Japan, they bow. I love it. Only thing I love about Japan.

If Jesus were living in our culture, he would probably hang out in coffeehouses.

All fine architectural values are human values, else not valuable.

The measure of a man's culture is the measure of his appreciation. We are ourselves what we appreciate and no more.

Architecture is life, or at least life itself taking form. . . the truest record of life as it was lived in the world yesterday, as it is lived today or will ever be lived.

When you live in a world that likes bad guys, the bad guys don't go away.

Are we living in a culture that is so infatuated with change that we have forgotten that the church is about transformation, not mere change?

Art is not a treasure in the past or an importation from another land, but part of the present life of all living and creating peoples.

September 4, 2019 0 Minutes Children, adolescents, adults and old people are in growing degree exposed to the contagious disease of loneliness in a world in which a competitive individualism tries to reconcile itself with a culture that speaks about togetherness, unity and community as the ideals to strive for.

When we want culture more than potatoes, and illumination more than sugar-plums, then the great resources of a world are taxed and drawn out, and the result, or staple production, is, not slaves, nor operatives, but men- those rare fruits called heroes, saints, poets, philosophers, and redeemers.

Most men have learned to read to serve a paltry convenience, as they have learned to cipher in order to keep accounts and not be cheated in trade; but of reading as a noble intellectual exercise they know little or nothing.

Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations. Books, the oldest and the best, stand naturally and rightfully on the shelves of every cottage. They have