Ariel Sharon Quotes

Whenever societies do well, they believe that there is something in their cultural DNA that made it happen.

It takes a strong effort on the part of each American Indian not to become Europeanized. The strength for this effort can only come from the traditional ways, the traditional values that our elders retain.

All lands are beautiful in the eyes of their people.

Retaining culture takes effort and persistence and discipline. It's a commitment, not a flag. You can't just pull it out and wave it about when it's convenient.

I'd rather be at the end of a dying tradition, which I admire, than at the beginning of a tradition which I deplore.

I have a respect for family pride. If it be a prejudice, it is a prejudice in its most picturesque shape. But I hold it is connected with some of the noblest feelings in our nature.

A deep meaning resides in old customs.

Culture is simply a shared way of doing something with passion.

We're Americans. It's a culture. We should defend that culture, and we should reinforce that culture.

A first difficulty of the Arab movement was to say who the Arabs were. Being a manufactured people, their name had been changing in sense slowly year by year. Once it meant an Arabian. There was a country called Arabia; but this was nothing to the point.

Growing up around people with the same culture as me made me a lot tougher.

The conservative is the one who understands his own society from within and loves and defends it.

I grew up with so much of the identity of being Muslim and being Arab tied around politics.

There are a lot of things that people learn and live through culture first, and politics comes afterward.

I don't know how it works with the Jews, but here in Beit Safafa, as in every self-respecting Arab community that is respected in turn by the state, there are no street names and no house numbers.

I may be born in the U.K., but nobody takes away from the fact that I'm an Arab, and I'm proud to be Arab.

I like to honor my West African and Taino ancestry, I consider it sacred and divine.

In India, knowledge has always been considered more valuable than power, fame or riches. In our tradition, educational institutions are respected as temples of learning.

The 'garra charrua' is something we're proud of, even if other people sometimes misunderstand it.

I'm very much an Arab, although I need to practise my Arabic more.

For me, I'm an American and I'm a Mexican. I live here. And it hurts me the way a lot of people talk about Mexicans when I know we're all about hard work and dedication.

We have a unique culture.

We must preserve our cultural identity.

We, as Palestinian-Americans... will not change who we are to make anyone comfortable.

Let's treasure our roots, even when we're far away.