Culturally Aware Quotes

#1. We need to tell Australian stories,we need to encourage and fund and present Australian work but we also need to understand that for a sophisticated, educated, culturally aware, modern nation we can't be parochial.

George Brandis

#2. If you used your head, if you became aware of how love was culturally constructed and began to see your symptoms as purely mental, if you recognized that being "in love" was only an idea, then you could liberate yourself from its tyranny

Jeffrey Eugenides

#3. I'd studied English since the first grade but considered it a murky language, one whose grammar seemed to have been made up on the fly

Sara Novic

#4. Even innocent Adam is liker to forget God in a paradise, than Joseph in a prison, or Job upon a dunghill(376)[.]

Richard Baxter

#5. There are ways to live this life, and my way has always been one of inclusion - of our own kind, of all humankind, of all spirits, of all things under the sun. It's not a virtue with me. I don't know any other way to move through the world.

Anne Rice

#6. These were the names of the men Moses sent to scout out the land, and Moses renamed Hoshea son of Nun, Joshua. Numbers 13:16

Beth Moore

#7. I was told, and indeed I saw several examples, that neither time nor place was much minded, and that I might hazard being equally careless of chronology and geography; but I piqued myself on having studied Aristotle, and scrupulously attended to the probabilities of time and place.

Charlotte Turner Smith

#8. The soul of man is larger than the sky, Deeper than ocean, or the abysmal dark Of the unfathomed centre.

Hartley Coleridge

#9. Darling, a true lady takes off her dignity with her clothes and does her whorish best. At other times you can be as modest and dignified as your persona requires.

Robert A. Heinlein

#10. I like understanding what's underneath, what's really motivating people. When I was younger, I wanted to be a psychiatrist, so I think it has to do with that.

Michelle Pfeiffer

#11. And good luck to you, Miss Vale, wherever you may go.

Julie Anne Long

#12. ONE OF THE THINGS that happens when you get older is that you discover lots of new ways to hurt yourself. Recently, in France, I was hit square on the head by an automatic parking barrier, something I don't think I could have managed in my younger, more alert years.

Bill Bryson

#13. Older generations are living proof that younger generations can survive their lunacy.

Cullen Hightower

#14. UnsureOne: But surely if you've been friends since you were six and you're now thirty-two, you've both been married once and are now living with other people in different countries, then if it hasn't happened by now, it won't be happening at all.

Cecelia Ahern

#15. Shei'tani ... wilt thou swim with thy beloved in a river of dreams?

C.L. Wilson

#16. My mother used to say, 'He who angers you, conquers you!' But my mother was a saint.

Elizabeth Kenny

#17. Woman cannot survive on droplets, she requires waves to regularly crash over her shores as the moon gives way to the sun...

Virginia Alison