Robert Hass Quotes

The greatest guarantee for the preservation of a person’s identity is language and faith, and all Armenians must carry these two values.

I was in the classroom four days after the inauguration, because I said to Joe when we got elected, 'Joe, I really want to continue to teach.' And he said, 'Absolutely. You should be doing what you love.' Politics - that's Joe's life, really, his love. But teaching is mine.

I'm a Chinese American.

We can all be defined by food.

I can't be against my people.

I am a man who dreams of culture.

The food and culture of any place go hand in hand.

I didn't really grow up with any traditions. I grew up in a pretty liberal household in Southern California. I think that's part of my interest in thinking about heritage. I don't have a second language or cultural heritage in that way.

We have a unique culture.

Harlem has always been the nexus of music, politics, culture, criminal figures.

I think the astute viewer can recognise I am the proper bloke, because I have a toolbox and can put things back together, and I can quote W. B. Yeats and Alfred Lord Tennyson.

What we, as African Americans, stood on was our faith.

All of our lives are enriched by our culture, from blockbuster films, best-selling video games, independent music, and internationally-renowned museums and art collections, to theatre, opera, ballet, literary festivals and performance poetry.

When you're a kid, what you learn in school about being German has a sort of heaviness about it, and you have a sort of guilt with you.

People love culture and authenticity.

I'm so proud of my heritage, and I know who my fans are.

We have to redefine what we mean when we say, 'Who are your people?' 'Where are you from?'

Everybody deserves a piece of where they live, in some type of fashion. Music is just my way of preserving that.

Music is part of our culture.

I believe that culture begins in the cradle . . .To do without tales and stories and books is to lose humanity's past, is to have no star map for our future.

In this land of the Ganga (Varanasi), there was education of culture. But, more importantly, there was a culture of education.

Most of the wonderful places in the world were not made by architects but by the people.

History is the key to citizenship.

What we need is a gigantic, messy community conversation about what is teaching and learning for the 21st century. We need to engage communities.

The business of education has lay[ed] the foundations for nurseries of wise and good men, to adapt our modes of teaching to the peculiar form of our government . . . . He must be taught to love his fellow creatures in every part of the world, but he must cherish with a more intense and peculiar affection the citizens of Pennsylvania and of the United States.