I come from a farming culture, where we valued raw materials above all.
I grew up in a culture in which it was a sin for a woman to speak out.
Cultures should not be like water that dissolves them evenly, but like colours that stand out distinctly.
Russia is a part of European culture. Therefore, it is with difficulty that I imagine NATO as an enemy.
For me, cooking is an expression of the land where you are and the culture of that place.
In a kind of a way there's a bit of that happening now so we have to be careful to preserve our culture.
The Rastafari culture has a very strong connection to Haile Selassie, a descendant of King Solomon.
If you try to put social and cultural development ahead of economic development, it doesn't work. You have to do it all together.
But the idea that women can't take care of themselves still permeates our culture.
Women say that my election represents a cultural break with the past - a past of sexism, of misogyny.
I got interested in the American culture war back in 2004, and it's one of the only growth stocks I've ever invested in.
Last summer we had eight people in the [Christian] congregation who danced four different sun dances. Of course the missionaries have said all along that those ceremonies are pagan and we can't do that. Our people insist that they are free in the gos...
Another of the great civilizations, the Aztecs, raised a breed of hairless chihuahuas especially for eating. When the Conquistadors arrived and found dog on the menu, they were of the same opinion as Mademoiselle, that this was evidence of the worst ...
The Bhagavad Gita—that ancient Indian Yogic text—says that it is better to live your own destiny imperfectly than to live an imitation of somebody else’s life with perfection. So now I have started living my own life. Imperfect and clumsy as it...
In the West, and among some in the Indian elite, this word, corruption, had purely negative connotations; it was seen as blocking India’s modern, global ambitions. But for the poor of a country where corruption thieved a great deal of opportunity, ...
(I think Rowdy might be the most important person in my life. maybe more important than my family.) Can your best friend be more importamt than your family? (24)
And then I realized that my sister was trying to LIVE a romance novel. Man, that takes courage and imagination. Well, it also took some degree of mental illness, too, but I was suddenly happy for her. And a little scared. Well, a lot scared.
These paintings say Mexico is an ancient thing that will still go on forever telling its own story in slabs of color leaves and fruits and proud naked Indians in a history without shame. Their great city of Tenochtitlan is still here beneath our shoe...
...that in this town prostitutes may give sewing lessons to ladies of the church, pirates my be consulted for their opinions on seaworth by shipbuilders, Christians and Jews may stroll together on a Sunday, and Indians my play dice games with leather...
People in this country are still waiting for the war of their freedom to come from somewhere else, from the jungles, from the mountains, from China, from Pakistan. That will never happen. Every man must make his own Benaras. The book of your revoluti...
From a spinner's perspective, in India it was never easy for me to judge where to stand: how far forward, how far back, because on Indian wickets the ball does not carry as much as abroad. That is true of slip fielding in general. I wouldn't say only...
