Top 1200 Greek Culture Quotes & Sayings - Page 5

A culture-bearing book, like a mule, bears the culture on its back. No one should sit down to write one deliberately. Culture-bearing books appear almost accidentally, like a sudden surge in the stock market. There are books of high quality that are a part of the culture, but that is not the same. They are a part of it. They aren't carrying it anywhere. They may talk about insanity sympathetically, for example, because that's the standard cultural attitude. But they don't carry any suggestion that insanity might be something other than sickness or degeneracy.

Partial culture runs to the ornate, extreme culture to simplicity.

The culture of Greece is not the same as the culture of Germany, and to fuse them into a single unit is extremely difficult.

Our culture in India is not a culture where we grudge each other.

It's not enough to have a hacker culture anymore. You have to have a design culture, too.

The culture of the hop ... so analagous to the culture and uses of the grape, may afford a theme for future poets.

When a culture of ladies arises, a culture of gentlemen will follow.

We don't have a superhero culture. Comic books and superheroes are part of American culture. We have 'Amar Chitrakatha,' etc.

My mother and father were born and raised in Pakistan, where religion is entrenched in the culture and the culture is explicitly unyielding.

As a child of West Texas, I identify with Hispanic culture every bit as much as I do North American culture.

You often hear attacks on international adoption as robbing a child of his or her culture, and that's both true and false. It's true that an internationally adopted child loses the rich background of history and religion and culture and language that the child was born into, but the cruel fact is that most children don't have access to the local, beautiful culture within an orphanage.

There is no equality between our culture and the retarded Islamic culture. Look at their views on homosexuality or women.

I've created a bridge between European electronic culture and urban American culture, and I've worked with established brands.

Ergometer is Greek for 'work meter'

Nurturing an inclusive culture begins in the family. Home is the first place to foster openness and a culture of inclusion.

Popular culture has become engorged, broadening and thickening until it's the only culture anyone notices.

The vitality of a culture is in its capacity to assimilate foreign influences. The culture that's defensive and closed condemns itself to decadence.

There is the philosophy embedded in the culture we are living. It is quite clear for example that Arabs have a different culture than Malaysians.

Greek architecture is the flowering of geometry.

When the forms of an old culture are dying, the new culture is created by a few people who are not afraid to be insecure.

It was my idea for high culture and popular culture to be treated equally.

Without Greek studies there is no education.

All culture, all important culture, is always linked to how people express and experience being alive.

The world's culture is changing, adapting. People are keeping what's good in a culture, and sweeping out the rest.

The conception of what is normal varies not only with the culture but also within the same culture, in the course of time.

As the welfare state is hollowed out, a culture of compassion is replaced by a culture of violence, cruelty and disposability.

Well, if I use Hispanic culture I get corruption and really good salsa music. If I use Chinese culture I get rigid thinking and decent Szechwan. If I use Islamic culture I get...not damned much of anything. And ditto for Africa although at least the rhythm is good and you can dance to it. But if I use Western European Culture I get industry, higher standards of living, longer lifespans and a generally happier society. Damn, I think I'll just have to go with WesternCiv even if I do have to put up with the Lutherans.

There's too much of a culture that exists out there, what I call an expectancy culture, of things being provided.

If you are building a corporate culture of greatness, you have to define culture on your own terms and with the people you work with.

My Greek relatives I think probably are vampires.

If someone says: "I don't want to have a cochlear implant, because I want my child to grow up with a rich sense of deaf culture," he must acknowledge that the deaf culture that exists in the world today has a different scale than the deaf culture that's likely to exist in the world 50 years from now.

I want to be a part of a vibrant culture and have a more open culture.

The AFL and NRL have done an awesome job every season in acknowledging Australia's culture and Indigenous culture.

Books marketing has moved from the review culture to a preview culture.

The second fundamental feature of culture is that all culture has an element of striving.

Macedonia was, is and will forever be Greek.

I'm a staunch believer in the effect of pop culture - including advertising and the internet - on the young. Pop culture in its narrowest sense - mass-produced film, TV, and music - either truly reflects what's up in youth culture, or it reflects what youth-filled focus groups have told marketing companies that they want to consume.

Don't forget - you're dealing with aberrated people. They're not responsible for their answers. They're victims of culture. That means they have been influenced by their culture.

It is interesting the way you create something and send it out into the culture, and then the culture kind of goes berserk.

England as a culture has endured so much more than America has as a culture, so it's given them a different perspective.

I have friends who read my books in Greek.

My Greek mythology is not strong enough.

I love Greek food in the summer.

The principles of punk-rock culture, of self-expression and DIY culture, that really spoke to me.

Culture is not usually one of the criterion for personhood, but it has been argued that culture is sort of a medium for a lot of these criteria, such as empathy, and so on.

Scientists are very much entangled in their culture and this culture is not pristine, untouched by other cultures and practices.

Introverts paradoxically pull away from culture and create culture.

We're in a decaying culture now. Naturally, the young people in the culture are going to feel themselves to be products of the decay.

Historians differ on when the consumer culture came to dominate American culture. Some say it was in the twenties, when advertising became a major industry and the middle class bought radios to hear the ads and cars to get to the stores. ... But there is no question that the consumer culture had begun to crowd out all other cultural possibilities by the years following World War II.

Shakespeare is as naturally a part of American culture as it is the British culture; the Americans have a natural interest in their heritage.

Is it our task to force the biblical doctrine of God to answer to modern culture, or (is it our task) to address modern culture with the biblical doctrine of God? If modern culture-or any culture-establishes the baseline for the doctrine of God, such a doctrine will certainly bear little resemblance to the God of the Bible.

Hip-hop is a beautiful culture. It's inspirational, because it's a culture of survivors. You can create beauty out of nothingness.

I don't have to participate in another culture's ceremonies in order to respect that culture.

[Mexican people] have a culture, a culture that goes back millennia.

This is a very special Greek kind of socialist, all the social democratic parties in Europe are against this idea and I think that the dividing line today in the Greek political system is not the centre right or socialist, the real dividing line is between those parties and those political forces who really believe that Greece should stay in the Eurozone and make the efforts and change, and make the reforms and change the old and Mr Tsipras who is really resisting any kind of change in Greece.

America is the only country capable of producing national movies: its culture has become a global culture.

You know, one of these things that happened in the '60s and '70s was this confluence of, sort of, a counter-culture with computer culture.

Fanfiction is what literature might look like if it were reinvented from scratch after a nuclear apocalypse by a band of brilliant pop-culture junkies trapped in a sealed bunker. They don't do it for money. That's not what it's about. The writers write it and put it up online just for the satisfaction. They're fans, but they're not silent, couchbound consumers of media. The culture talks to them, and they talk back to the culture in its own language.

Arabic is the language of the Qur'an, but Arab culture is not the culture of Islam.

People constantly express surprise that Americans are so hot for Shakespeare. But Britain's culture is American culture, too.