Yasmine Hamdan Quotes

There aren't any looks or customs I wish would come back. Today almost anything goes. Culture constantly devours the past so there's not much that's missing.

Cultures grow on the vine of tradition.

The universality of a custom is pledge of its worth.

If someone were to put a proposition before men bidding them choose, after examination, the best customs in the world, each nation would certainly select its own.

Having culture means we are the only animal that acquires the rules of its daily living from the accumulated knowledge of our ancestors, rather than from the genes they pass to us.

That's why we're doing this, to defend our traditions a little. I don't have anything against it (Halloween), but it's not our tradition.

I love having different cultures around, but when the parent culture kind of dissipates, you're left thinking, 'Well, what's going on?'

Culture is not made up but something that evolves which is human.

People tend to believe that to be modern you have to disengage from your heritage, but it's not true.

In America nothing dies easier than tradition.

Cultures, for better or worse, are very stable.

For members of a traditional society where many traditions have been discredited, an interest in modernity can result in a restless sophistication. Mehmet Ertegun seems not to have been a restless man.

In a kind of a way there's a bit of that happening now so we have to be careful to preserve our culture.

Civilisations which get cut off from their traditions and values do not survive for long.

We are under attack. Our culture, society, traditions, and way of life are at risk.

Culture is a slingshot moved by the force of its past

It would be a sad day for India if it has to inherit the English scale and the English tastes so utterly unsuitable to the Indian environment.

Culture is everything. Culture is the way we dress, the way we carry our heads, the way we walk, the way we tie our ties - it is not only the fact of writing books or building houses.

The life history of the individual is first and foremost an accommodation to the patterns and standards traditionally handed down in his community.

What they fear, I think rightly, is that traditional Vietnamese society cannot survive the American economic and cultural impact.

Now, I know it's a widespread assumption in the West that as countries modernize, they also westernize. This is an illusion. It's an assumption that modernity is a product simply of competition, markets and technology. It is not. It is also shaped equally by history and culture. China is not like the West, and it will not become like the West.

Customs and convictions change; respectable people are the last to know, or to admit, the change, and the ones most offended by fresh reflections of the facts in the mirror of art.

There's no way to escape the culture that has evolved, from which we ourselves have evolved. Naturally, we stress it, break it up, reassemble it to suit our own needs. But it is there - a source of vital strength.

I'm Cherokee, and there were times when social expansion was something that is needed by a cultural group or a national group.

In many respects, I think 'Bless Me, Ultima' is a novel about the indigenous.