Two Cultures Quotes

#1. Sometimes we feel we straddle two cultures; at other times, that we fall between two stools.

Salman Rushdie

#2. My wife wanted my children to have some Chinese culture and education. She believes the children need to learn two languages and two cultures.

Jet Li

#3. The two cultures of East and West are very different, and the priorities are very different. So when you understand that - if you are from this side or this side - when you understand that the other is different than you, and you respect these differences, you can build communication.

Ashraf Barhom

#4. Human life is reduced to real suffering, to hell, only when two ages, two cultures and religions overlap.

Hermann Hesse

#5. It is a bitter-sweet thing, knowing two cultures. Once you leave your birthplace nothing is ever the same.

Sarah Turnbull

#6. I love irony in pictures. There's one photograph from Vietnam by Philip Jones Griffiths that shows a very large GI having his pocket picked by a tiny Vietnamese woman. It told the whole story of the clash of two cultures and how the invader could never win.

John Pilger

#7. Because of our social circumstances, male and female are really two cultures and their life experiences are utterly different.

Kate Millett

#8. When two cultures collide is the only time when true suffering exists

Hermann Hesse

#9. So I've never found there was any particular separation between the two cultures at all, musically speaking.

Neville Marriner

#10. So it was constantly going back and forth between these two cultures that kept raising the question, well, how important is personal freedom? And I think that has always been of interest to me.

Sheena Iyengar

#11. Her voice was erudite, interesting; the voice of someone who straddled two cultures with a surety and style that I wished my boyfriend could find. She was smart, funny, and, above all, completely capable of controlling her life and what happened to it.

Ruth Ahmed

#12. He has a strange face. It's all sharpness and angles and incredibly fair skin. But then he's got this thatch of black hair that's such a contrast. It's like two cultures had a massive fight over his face and neither won.

Melina Marchetta

#13. For me, it's good fortune to be between two cultures. Growing up in Germany taught me a lot. I am a world citizen. Today I can adapt well no matter where I am. Even when it's not always easy.

Tarkan

#14. Human beings are more alike than different - damn sure more alike than we like to admit. I wonder if the same thing wouldn't have happened eventually, no matter which two cultures gained the ability to wipe one another out along with the rest of the world." Lilith

Octavia E. Butler

#15. I enjoy mediation. I think the artist's position is often to mend the things we feel are broken. Whether that's between two cultures or two thoughts. We're always trying to reach, trying to expand something.

K'naan

#16. There are not two cultures, only half-cultured individuals

Judith Merril

#17. I was searching for something a little more than a dashing metaphor, a good deal less than a cultural map: and for those purposes the two cultures is about right.

C.P. Snow

#18. History is always written by the winners. When two cultures clash, the loser is obliterated, and the winner writes the history books-books which glorify their own cause and disparage the conquered foe. As Napoleon once said, 'What is history, but a fable agreed upon?

Dan Brown

#19. Values heavily influence the practice of health habits. For example, exercise for women may be considered desirable in one culture but undesirable in another.(Donovan, Jessor, Costa, 1991) As a result, patterns among women will differe greatly between two cultures.

Shelley E. Taylor

#20. What's happening is that Asian and Latino and other groups without that history are more likely to end up in either black churches or white churches and then make them multiracial churches. I talk about that in the US we have two cultures.

Michael Emerson

#21. If you know two cultures and two languages, that intermediate place, where the two don't perfectly meet, is really interesting.

Sandra Cisneros

#22. The Negro is the child of two cultures - Africa and America. The problem is that in the search for wholeness all too many Negroes seek to embrace only one side of their natures.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#23. If you can find your footing between two cultures, sometimes you can have the best of both worlds.

Randy Pausch

#24. The idyllic mayhem of two cultures colliding just doesn't seem as funny anymore.

Kris Kidd

#25. Two thousand years ago, we lived in a world of Gods and Goddesses. Today, we live in a world solely of Gods. Women in most cultures have been stripped of their spiritual power.

Dan Brown

#26. Scholars make things very easy for themselves. They stick a couple of old potsherds together, search for one or two adjacent cultures, stick a label on the restored find and - hey, presto! - once again everything fits splendidly into the approved pattern of thought.

Erich Von Daniken

#27. The two ideas, justice and vocation, are inseparable ... It is by way of the principle and practice of vocation that sanctity and reverence enter into the human economy. It was thus possible for traditional cultures to conceive that "to work is to pray." (pg. 258, The Idea of a Local Economy)

Wendell Berry

#28. Two of the chief defenders of the faith in the Old Testament and in the New - Moses and Paul - were both well-versed in the language, the thinking, and the philosophy of their cultures.

Ravi Zacharias

#29. In fact, Guerra based his story on the diaries of two explorers, German Theodor Koch-Grunberg and American Richard Evans Schultes. There work is some of the only documentation of cultures that have since vanished. But Guerra did not want white men to be his protagonists.

Tom Cole

#30. I don't want to die ... I don't want to die poor. Two great motivators in the history of human cultures.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#31. In all cultures, the family imprints its members with selfhood. Human experience of identity has two elements; a sense of belonging and a sense of being separate. The laboratory in which these ingredients are mixed and dispensed is the family, the matrix of identity.

Salvador Minuchin

#32. I grew up having two different perspectives - one in English, one in Spanish. Two different cultures, very different - but I think that, to me, it's one. I'm just as American as I feel Latin.

Prince Royce

#33. To reaffirm the statement on the choosing of my identity, I come from two beautiful cultures which I have embraced, bridged, balanced, and identify with. I am proud to be who I am as a Dine' (Navajo) and Nahilii (African American) woman. Hozho', , & blessings

Radmilla Cody

#34. Mergers are like marriages. They are the bringing together of two individuals. If you wouldn't marry someone for the 'operational efficiencies' they offer in the running of a household, then why would you combine two companies with unique cultures and identities for that reason?

Simon Sinek

#35. When two alien cultures meet, the stronger must transform the weaker with love or hate. - Damon Knight, "Stranger Station" (1956)

Gary Westfahl

#36. Two half-truths do not make a truth, and two half- cultures do not make a culture

Arthur Koestler

#37. I'm committed to sign in everything I communicate, but I also speak. I still believe that I reach more people when I do that. I bridge two different cultures and two different worlds, and I think that bridge still needs work.

I. King Jordan

#38. But in the US, when you have two separate cultures, each with its right, each of which has come to exist in this political entity in the last couple hundred years, each feeling like, "I have the right to hold onto my culture," and that's what makes it difficult.

Michael Emerson

#39. Like almost everyone else in America, I grew up believing the myth of the objective scientist. Fortunately I was raised on the edges of two very distinct cultures, western European and American Indian ...

Vine Deloria Jr.

#40. There's only two things I hate in this world. People who are intolerant of other people's cultures and the Dutch.

Michael Caine

#41. My whole soul rebels against the idea that Hinduism and Islam represent two antagonistic cultures and doctrines.

Mahatma Gandhi

#42. On three great bonds of love do all cultures depend: the love between man and woman in marriage; the love between a mother and her child; and the camaraderie among men, a bond that used to be strong enough to move mountains. The first two have suffered greatly; the third has almost ceased to exist.

Anthony M. Esolen

#43. History shows, in my opinion, that no nation can survive the tension, conflict and antagonism of two competing languages and cultures. It is a blessing for an individual to be bilingual; it is a curse for a society to be bilingual.

Richard Lamm

#44. The Iraqis have a country that inherited cultures thousands of years old while the Americans have a culture only two hundred years old. Two hundred years will teach thousands of years!? Oh Americans, leave Iraq for its people.

Yusuf Al-Qaradawi

#45. There are two kinds of cultures in this world: cultures where what you do matters and cultures where all that matters is who you are. You can be the former or you can suck.

Ben Horowitz