William Shatner Quotes

A civilization, a culture, cannot survive without passion, cannot be saved without passion.

I really hold on to my culture because it is what made me.

I've got to where am in life not because of something I brought to the world but through something I found - the wealth of African culture.

I think there's something really painful about your identity being entirely composed of ghosts. For me, I didn't want to be this kid whose Dominicanness was something caught utterly in the past, is an abstraction, the thing that I write about. Instead I wanted it to be, first and foremost, a thing that I lived.

Considered now as a possession, one may define culture as the residuum of a large body of useless knowledge that has been well and truly forgotten.

Preserving tradition has become a nice hobby, like stamp collecting.

A nation's culture resides in the hearts and in the soul of its people.

There are stories that people don't want to talk about that brought this music through.

I am so excited to have created a line that has been inspired by my culture - showing its color, its passion and its greatness - and one that captures much of my personal style.

The deepest feeling always shows itself in silence; not in silence, but restraint.

There's all sorts of soul. There's Irish soul and Native American soul. If it touches you and moves you, it's soul.

White people use their literature to maintain culture. That's why you find references to Milton and Spencer and Shakespeare and Dostoyevsky in contemporary novels.

I'm not suggesting our music is the only music, but I am suggesting that there are certain elements in America's culture that are so precious that it would be a shame for them to go down the drain.

If we lose our culture, we lose our memory.

It’s very important that all of us who have bicultural roots retain our culture.

It may not be art, but it is history.

Quebec has no opinions, only emotions.

A culture is made — or destroyed — by its articulate voices.

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

As far as I have been able to understand, the Japanese seem to keep things close to the vest. Friendly but remote and polite to the point of being invisible. It is in the music, literature, film and art that the Japanese really seem to express themselves.

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

Our language, history, and civilization shine out across every continent.

I grew up in a very cultural household, but part of our culture is that we don't really take photos.

When it comes to culture, I'm sort of like Nostradamus if he'd been a handsome, witty minor celebrity with a great head of hair instead of a crusty old dude from the olden days.

We must preserve our cultural identity.