Antonio Guterres Quotes

India is a curious place that still preserves the past, religions, and its history. No matter how modern India becomes, it is still very much an old country.

Africa has a time-honored and brilliant civilization.

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.

For more than 1000 years our spiritual traditions and common values have been nurtured and begotten here. Today, as we restore the value of patriotism, historical memory and cultural tradition, we are seeking firmer bonds with Mount Athos.

The diversity of India, of our civilization, is actually a thing of beauty, which is something we are extremely proud of.

I think Latin American cultures are really rich and fascinating. I like the pomp and circumstance of some of their rituals and ceremonies.

Traveling in India gives you a chance to observe a renaissance.

A culture without mythology is not really a civilisation.

I think I've written about family and things in 'Taipei' which could be considered Asian culture.

India is a democracy; it is in our DNA.

As we travel around Britain, I am convinced most of us cannot really appreciate what we are seeing. We take too much for granted, because it is all so familiar.

The importance of education is ingrained in Scottish history.

In these confused times, the role of classical music is at the very core of the struggle to reassert cultural and ethical values that have always characterized our country and for which we have traditionally been honored and respected outside our shores.

I spent most of the '60s, when I was starting to try to write novels, living and working in Greece and Turkey. These are countries where the ancient past is interfused with the daily present, and I remember being struck with wonder at the constant sense of continuity and connection, the reminders that lie in wait for you at every turn.

If there is one place on the face of earth where all the dreams of living men have found a home from the very earliest days when man began the dream of existence, it is India.

Persia is 7,000 years old and will fight to survive.

Canada is a country of ingredients without a cuisine; we're a country with musicians without an indigenous instrument; Toronto's a city that doesn't even have a dish named after it.

I just like the people and the culture of Southeast Asia.

World history is the history of the great cultures.

One motherland, one sanskriti (culture), common ancestry and heritage and unity in diversity. It is these three that constitute the national culture. The mode of worship can differ from person to person.

All states need to hallow themselves with the dignity of the past.

Baseball, my son, is the cornerstone of civilization.

National cultures and heritages must compete for man's attention with the mind-absorbing advances of universal science.

Our ancient historical monuments are national property and ought no longer to be left to the mercy of the many and variable ideas of ecclesiastical propriety that may at any time be prevalent among us

It is the fight for national existence which sets culture moving and opens to it the doors of creation. Later on it is the nation which will ensure the conditions and framework necessary to culture