Quotes about Culture

There is no such thing as an ugly language. Today I hear every language as if it were the only one, and when I hear of one that is dying, it overwhelms me as though it were the death of the earth.

What is being lost is the magic of the word. I am not an image person. Imagery belongs to another civilization: the caveman. Caveman couldn't express himself so he put images on walls.

Memory feeds a culture, nourishes hope and makes a human, human.

Shame is an ornament to the young; a disgrace to the old.

Educated men are as much superior to uneducated men as the living are to the dead.

I always say to anybody who's going over to America for the first time, 'Whatever you do, go and see a popular mainstream film with a big audience.' Because people shout out. You never get that in Britain. Everybody's so quiet, scared to laugh. It's like being in church.

God created the races. He created different backgrounds and cultures. But He created them all to operate under His authority.

I got into rap when I first heard Sugarhill Gang.

I want to say, to Mr. Gene Simmons, hip-hop is here forever. Get used to it.

The chief glory of every people arises from its authors.

I don't think even ungodly people realize what a society would be like that had no godly influence at all.

The real turning point in human history is less apt to be the day the wheel is invented or Rome falls than the day a boy is born to a couple of hick Jews.