Cultural Literacy Sayings

#1. We have ignored cultural literacy in thinking about education We ignore the air we breathe until it is thin or foul. Cultural literacy is the oxygen of social intercourse.

E.D. Hirsch Jr.

#2. To speak without shame about books we haven't read, we would thus do well to free ourselves of the oppressive image of cultural literacy without gaps, as transmitted and imposed by family and school, for we can strive toward this image for a lifetime without ever managing to coincide with it.

Pierre Bayard

#3. Film has become a marketed commodity, and the opportunities and audiences for art cinema have grown smaller. There is a general downturn in cultural literacy, perhaps because of television.

Roger Ebert

#4. He was in the fire station not exactly enjoying a lonely lunch.

Michael Grant

#5. Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unshown marble of great sculpture.

Aldous Huxley

#6. ...whose number one rule in life is: ignore all the ordinary people.

Margaret Willey

#7. The notion of multiple literacies recognized that there are many ways of being-and of becoming-literate, and that how literacy develops and how it is used depend on the particular social and cultural setting.

Jerome Bruner

#8. Eternity shall be at once a great eye-opener and a great mouth-shutter. -Jim Elliot

Elisabeth Elliot

#9. And worrying is less work than doing something to fix the worry. This is especially true if we're careful to pick the biggest possible problems to worry about. Everybody wants to save the earth; nobody want to help Mom do the dishes.

P. J. O'Rourke

#10. We can give up belief in God while not losing touch with a treasured heritage.

Richard Dawkins

#11. He was never one to care whether a person was popular or not. Exhibit A ... me.

Kim Harrington

#12. She tasted of coffee and day old poetry.

R. YS Perez

#13. I don't care if you're spoiled, for God's sake! I'm spoiled. We're all spoiled, life does that. It's what you do with yourself after you realize you've been spoiled that matters. It's the life you make in the ruins.

Tim Farrington

#14. Bookishness, highest literacy, every technique of cultural propaganda and training not only can accompany bestiality and oppression and despotism but at certain points foster it.

George Steiner

#15. Our differences need not divide us because even as we are unique and individual, we are also all one.

Karen Kimsey-House

#16. The Father willed that his blessed and glorious Son, whom he gave to us and who was born for us, should through his own blood offer himself as a sacrificial victim on the altar of the cross. This was to be done not for himself through whom all things were made, but for our sins.

Francis Of Assisi

#17. If you're buying tomatoes pick them up and smell them-they should have a lovely perfume. They need to be kept at fifty degrees or above, particularly during the growing season, because that's when they develop their flavor.

Julia Child

#18. As a kid, I would look at my dad and ask him why he was wearing jeans with his tux. Today I love to do it. It's just fun to be a little more unique.

David Lauren

#19. Education brings sustainability to all the development goals, and literacy is the foundation of all learning. It provides individuals with the skills to understand the world and shape it, to participate in democratic processes and have a voice, and also to strengthen their cultural identity.

Irina Bokova

#20. Strong is beautiful, beautiful is not always strong

Sari Sikstrom

#21. If I'm going to be a caged bird, I'll sing the best song I can.

Wes Craven

#22. To be scientifically illiterate is to remain essentially uncultured. And the chief virtue of a cultural activity
be it art, music, literature, or science
is the way it enriches our lives.

Lawrence M. Krauss