Quotes of: Western-culture Keyword

The role of the federal government should be neutral toward culture just as it is toward religion.

Preston Manning

My main mistake was to have made an ancient people advance by forced marches toward independence, health, culture, affluence, comfort.

Mohammed Reza Pahlavi

Humor, humility, and, of course, honesty, all are qualities that work in public and cultural diplomacy.

Cynthia P. Schneider

History is cyclical, and it would be foolhardy to assume that the culture wars will never return.

Frank Rich

The euro pleases dispirited people for whom European history is not Chartres and Shakespeare but the Holocaust and the Somme. The euro expresses cultural despair.

George Will

I love Pittsburgh because it's a humble city. It's really grounded in its rich history and culture.

Kyle Abraham

To me, British fashion has a story. It has history, and I feel it's very much about our culture.

Rita Ora

What is true is that if we do not change the culture of Washington, D.C., the United States of America will cease.

Steve Southerland

Apple has a culture of excellence that is, I think, so unique and so special. I'm not going to witness or permit the change of it.

Tim Cook

We moved to Gambia from Sweden when I was six years old because my dad was from there. It was definitely a culture shock.

Seinabo Sey

We're so afraid of death in our culture, but I think if we understand it better, then we'll appreciate the life we have more.

Naomi Watts

Any set of decisions about design is inevitably influenced by cultural prejudice, no matter how intent an architect might be to avoid it.

Martin Filler

Pools have their own uniqueness, design and engineering to depict culture, history or innovation.

Troy Dumais

The most important environmental issue is one that is rarely mentioned, and that is the lack of a conservation ethic in our culture.

Gaylord Nelson

Just as there's garbage that pollutes the Potomac river, there is garbage polluting our culture. We need an Environmental Protection Agency to clean it up.

Pat Buchanan

Every great culture has cared a lot, one way or another, about the fate of its girls.

Caitlin Flanagan

Los Angeles is a very special city. It's a great ethnic mix, a great cultural mix.

Gustavo Dudamel

Innumerable confusions and a feeling of despair invariably emerge in periods of great technological and cultural transition.

Marshall McLuhan

Sport is a great equalizer that can build bridges, transcend borders and cultures, and render even the fiercest conflicts temporarily irrelevant.

Richard Attias

Our great cultural error is to assume that 'truth' arrives only through reductive theories.

Siri Hustvedt

I love the opportunity to wear something really special and go to a wonderful event at some great cultural institution.

Sarah Jessica Parker