Margaret Mead Quotes

With faith and courage, generations of Armenians have overcome great suffering and proudly preserved their culture, traditions, and religion and have told the story of the genocide to an often indifferent world.

We've got to map all of our ancient history before it's gone because, let's face it, if we don't have a common heritage to share, something to get excited about, then what are we living for?

I'm Russian Jewish. And I had to grow up really quickly.

I don't decide to represent anything except myself. But that self is full of collective memory.

I think cinema is the memory and the imagination of the country. Take the memory and imagination out of an individual, and he stops being an individual. I think it's the same thing for a country.

Without memory, there is no culture. Without memory, there would be no civilization, no society, no future.

If we lose our culture, we lose our memory.

A people without a history is like the wind over buffalo grass.

Obviously, my Indigenous culture is very special to me.

Cambodia is not only a country of war, but also a country of culture. It's in our DNA.

Culture is important. Wars are fought over culture. It's not just about folks showing up and being hoity-toity. Culture is about definition.

I made efforts to swallow tears and to protect the species of the Japanese nation.

A fiddler on the roof. Sounds crazy, no? But here, in our little village of Anatevka, you might say every one of us is a fiddler on the roof trying to scratch out a pleasant, simple tune without breaking his neck. It isn't easy. You may ask 'Why do we stay up there if it's so dangerous?' Well, we stay because Anatevka is our home. And how do we keep our balance? That I can tell you in one word: tradition!

Memory feeds a culture, nourishes hope and makes a human, human.

It's like we're suffering from an identity crisis, and that identity is in our arts and the fact that we don't find it chief amongst our agendas to teach our kids who we are as a nation and the battles we've had on this ground and how they've been successfully resolved. We can't enjoy the fruits of the labor of our ancestors.

In spite of everything, there is still no more wonderful vocation than to continue to tolerate events and to work on in the name of our mission, in the name of that spirit which lives on in our teaching and in our vision of humanity and art, the spirit which can lead us Jews down the true and just path. But along the way, peoples will spill our blood, and that of others.

Here (Jerusalem), tears do not weaken the eyes, they only polish and shine the hardness of faces like stone.

Armed with the knowledge of our past, we can with confidence charter a course for our future. Culture is an indispensable weapon in the freedom struggle. We must take hold of it and forge the future with the past.

Each one of them suffering from the failures of their day, with strings of guilt they tried hard to guide us.

You need to learn to be with the suffering that inevitably arises in your life.

As my sufferings mounted I soon realized that there were two ways in which I could respond to my situation -- either to react with bitterness or seek to transform the suffering into a creative force. I decided to follow the latter course.

But we must not suffer over the suffering.

In our own case, we don't consider the loss of a monastery or a monument the end of our entire way of life. If one monastery is destroyed, sometimes it happens.

Happy the man who can count his sufferings.

Trouble's made us kin.