Quotes About Cultural Influences

#1. America is a mosaic not of groups but of individuals, each of whom carries a host of cultural influences, some chosen, some inherited, some absorbed by osmosis. That mosaic is held together by the pursuit of happiness, the most powerful mortar ever conceived. Left alone, it will long endure.

Virginia Postrel

#2. The cultural influences in our country are like the floo floo bird. I am referring to the peculiar and especial bird who always flew backward. To keep the wind out of its eyes? No. Just because it didn't give a darn where it was going, but just had to see where it had been.

Frank Lloyd Wright

#3. My family ... always had the value of the family table and these cultural influences of growing up.

Emeril Lagasse

#4. My upbringing has always been quite equal in terms of cultural influences. But it's unlikely that anything could prepare you for a job that involves belting out Proclaimers songs on camera, in Edinburgh and in public.

Antonia Thomas

#5. Whether you're on a sports team, in an office or a member of a family, if you can't trust one another there's going to be trouble.

Stephen Covey

#6. If you're asking me to acknowledge that I've gotten older, I can do that.

Harrison Ford

#7. I find a woman with brains enormously attractive and not threatening in the least. A pretty face is nice, too, but having somebody to converse with and share thoughts for thirty or forty years is very appealing to me.

Beatriz Williams

#8. There is no amount of bad news that the markets cannot see past.

Seth Klarman

#9. Malone: Me father died of starvation in Ireland in the black 47. Maybe you've heard of it.
Violet: The Famine?
Malone: No, the starvation. When a country is full o food, and exporting it, there can be no famine.

George Bernard Shaw

#10. The Grecian's maxim would indeed be a sweeping clause in Literature; it would reduce many a giant to a pygmy; many a speech to a sentence; and many a folio to a primer.

Charles Caleb Colton

#11. You are a shelf of books without the pages.

Gabrielle Aplin

#12. To this day, she's still sad. Because there's not some finite amount of pain inside us. Our bodies and minds just keep manufacturing more of it. I'm just saying that I took the pain that was inside of her at that moment and made it my own. And it didn't hurt me at all.

Tom Perrotta

#13. Magic touches people in the way great art does. It lets them see the world with new eyes.

Drummond Money-Coutts

#14. I'm sick of people imposing cultural references and influences on me, but I'm not sick of people talking about my age.

Xavier Dolan

#15. I detest that woman [Rachel Lynde] more than anybody I know. She can put a whole sermon, text, comment, and application, into six words, and throw it at you like a brick.

L.M. Montgomery

#16. Let a Secretary of Peace be appointed.

Benjamin Banneker

#17. I think you need a really strong businessperson running the state, a person who's used to turning negatives into positives, which is what happens in business.

Mike Curb

#18. Real cultural diversity results from the interchange of ideas, products, and influences, not from the insular development of a single national style.

Tyler Cowen