Quotes about Culture
Difference between savage and civilized man: one is painted, the other gilded.
- Mark Twain
The only very marked difference between the average civilized man and the average savage is that the one is gilded and the other is painted.
- Mark Twain
The civilized man is a more experienced and wiser savage.
- Henry David Thoreau
It is a ridiculous demand which England and America make, that you shall speak so that they can understand you. Neither men nor toadstools grow so.
- Henry David Thoreau
Seasoned life of man preserved and stored up in books.
- John Milton
My mom brought me up to be a feminist. She would always point out to my brother and me that our culture does often portray women like objects...
- Joseph Gordon-Levitt
My parents were the traditional Filipino parents who didnt talk about money around the dinner table.
- Bo Sanchez
I'm concerned a little bit with the culture of celebrating the fundraise. My dad taught me that when you borrow money it's the worst day of your life.
- Gary Vaynerchuk
If you hire people just because they can do a job, they'll work for your money. But if you hire people who believe what you believe, they'll work for you with blood, sweat, and tears.
- Simon Sinek
No contact with savage Indian tribes has ever daunted me more than the morning I spent with an old lady swathed in woolies who compared herself to a rotten herring encased in a block of ice.
- Claude Levi-Strauss
The greatest missionary is the Bible in the mother tongue. It needs no furlough and is never considered a foreigner.
- William Cameron Townsend
On Easter or Christmas Day, my mother might drag me to church, just as she dragged me to the Buddhist temple, the Chinese New Year celebration, the Shinto shrine, and ancient Hawaiian burial sites.
- Barack Obama