Quotes of: Western-culture Keyword

I love the natural world - it comes from my culture, which grew out of a people enslaved.

Alice Walker

When once I got to America I fell in love with hippie culture, and I've always wanted to live in the country and grow organic vegetables.

Jamaica Kincaid

What I love the most about modeling is that it opens you a lot of different doors of opportunities and takes you to many different places, which then put you in touch with various people and cultures.

Karolina Kurkova

In microbiology the roles of mutation and selection in evolution are coming to be better understood through the use of bacterial cultures of mutant strains.

Edward Lawrie Tatum

There is a tendency around the world today to copy TV culture. And that is not always a virtue.

Francis Arinze

The type of fig leaf which each culture employs to cover its social taboos offers a twofold description of its morality. It reveals that certain unacknowledged behavior exists and it suggests the form that such behavior takes.

Freda Adler

Cultural indoctrination makes stupid people believe there's nothing wrong in Meat Eating. There is. Who eat it, lose "It".

Fakeer Ishavardas

Angels, fairies, gods, hell-heaven, "mediating" messiahs, demons, spirits etc. - are but your cultural-isms. Free be of these prisons.

Fakeer Ishavardas

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