Quotes about Culture

Paula Bonhoeffer had memorized an impressive repertoire of poems, hymns, and folk songs, which she taught her children, who remembered them into their old age.

Paula Bonhoeffer's faith was most evident in the values that she and her husband taught their children. Exhibiting selflessness, expressing generosity, and helping others were central to the family culture.

German culture was inescapably Christian. This was a result of the legacy of Martin Luther, the Catholic monk who invented Protestantism. Looming over the German culture and nation like both a father and a mother, Luther was to Germany something like what Moses was to Israel;

But so successful would Wilberforce and these other Christians be at bringing a concern for the poor and a social conscience into the society at large that by the next century, during the Victorian era, this attitude would become culturally mainstream.

Show me a woman who doesn't feel guilty and I'll show you a man.

Here is the treasure chest of the world - the public library, or a bookstore.

The English in politics are as the old Hebrews in religion, a favoured and peculiar people.

Here in America my classmates don't know what they are living for, but in Israel, we know.

Regardless of what society says, we can't go on much longer in the sea of immorality without judgment coming.

Finally, the complexities of black relationships are being portrayed in television and film.

When I was born, some of our relatives came to our house and told my mother, 'Don't worry, next time you will have a son.'

Why do we always have to see black people in hindsight? Why are the Hollywood movies always historical? What about the contemporary image of black people?