Quotes of: Modern-culture Keyword

The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts.

Charles Darwin

People are really interested in the concept of eternal youth in this plastic-surgery culture.

Charlaine Harris

No place is perfect, but I admire Oahu for its offering of the tropical and the urban, and then its Asian-inflected culture and cuisines.

Chang-Rae Lee

There are cultural reasons, economic competitiveness reasons. There are a lot of reasons why people are in poverty. The difference today is that increasingly they are in perpetual poverty.

Jeb Bush

If we refuse to accept as inevitable the irresponsibility and educational unconcern of the adolescent culture, then this poses a serious challenge.

James S. Coleman

I'm not naive enough to pretend that on its own cinema can capture the very soul of significant social and cultural problems.

David Puttnam

I don't think anyone could write about another culture and get it 100 percent accurate.

Elizabeth George

Culture is not made up but something that evolves which is human.

Edward T. Hall

I'd never had any problem finding inspiration; Ireland was always just there, you know? All this richness of culture was there to tap into.

Brendan Gleeson

When I started graduate school I was interested in the culture of the Civil Rights Movement.

Bernice Johnson Reagon

Obama's pop-cultural focus may seem demeaning to the office of the presidency. It may be mockable. But it is also tremendously effective.

Ben Shapiro

If one is looking for cultural testosterone and raging off-the-wall competition in the world of communications, Manhattan was - and is - home plate.

Brock Yates

When I started, there was more of a cultural assumption that many readers would find gay characters irrelevant or repugnant.

Carol Anshaw

It might sound dramatic and a little grandiose, but as a Latina, I would like to be someone that gives a voice to my culture.

Cristela Alonzo

We need to help students and parents cherish and preserve the ethnic and cultural diversity that nourishes and strengthens this community - and this nation.

Cesar Chavez

Sweet treats are as much a part of our culture as they are our taste palettes, and it can sometimes seem as though sugary snacks are everywhere.

Homaro Cantu

Culture is a little like dropping an Alka-Seltzer into a glass - you don't see it, but somehow it does something.

Hans Magnus Enzensberger

no human culture is inaccessible to someone who makes the effort to understand, to learn, to inhabit another world.

Henry Louis Gates Jr.

Humanity today possesses sufficient economic, cultural and spiritual resources to introduce a better global order.

Hans Kung

I think it's important for all culturally literate people to understand the technological substrate of new developments.

Hari Kunzru

Many people in the western world are spoiled by the conveniences of our culture.

Joyce Meyer