David Wong Quotes

A hallmark of the Latino community is to help one another, if students are interested in a way to give back and help their communities, becoming a teacher is probably one of the very best ways of doing that.

It is really important for me to help my culture.

Some people think that culture is overhyped and peripheral. A season of opera is less important than the refurbishment of a school, they say. Leaving aside the poverty of imagination and aspiration implicit in such a sentiment, it also ignores hardheaded economic reality: Britain, and London in particular, makes big money from culture.

We need to have a view that culture has a value in itself, not just in terms of a social and economic value.

People can only live fully by helping others to live. When you give life to friends you truly live. Cultures can only realize their further richness by honoring other traditions. And only by respecting natural life can humanity continue to exist.

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.

My sister sings, and in Mexico, we have these things called 'Casa de la Cultura,' which are specific places where they actually foster culture. They support people who want to do something in culture.

Culture is important. Wars are fought over culture. It's not just about folks showing up and being hoity-toity. Culture is about definition.

Chinese people need to be aware of their present and ask, 'What's our culture? What can we bring to the world?' I don't think there's anything wrong with that.

Growing up, my parents were very much about the Egyptian culture. They never really wanted to assimilate in American culture.

Culture is the glue that really binds, especially in cities with fast-growing populations.

We cannot blame globalisation for diluting our cultural heritage and music, as our music is respected more outside India than here.

I cannot expect actor Prakash Raj, who is versatile across languages, to express solidarity with a cause.

Culture should be shared, not hoarded.

Shall we go on conferring our Civilization upon the peoples that sit in darkness, or shall we give those poor things a rest?

He who cherishes the value of cultures cannot fail to be a pacifist.

It might be crazy to expect a high government official to speak the truth. It might be crazy to believe that government policy will be something more than the handmaiden of the most powerful interests. It might be crazy to argue that we should preserve a tradition that has been part of our tradition for most of our history -- free culture. If this is crazy, then let there be more crazies. Soon.

Culture isn't all just about what can be tweaked and twitched in the simplest possible way. As people move around, they literally don't see what's around them, because they're wedded to earworms that are burrowing into their heads endlessly in a kind of negotiation with these tiny screens.

Separatism is a very healthy movement within culture. It's a disastrous movement within politics and economics.

We have taken so much from your culture, I wish you had taken something from ours...For there were some beautiful and good things within it. Perhaps now that the time has come, We are fearful that what you take will be lost.... I shall grab the instruments of the white man's success: His education, his skills, and society.

Everyone can help. We can educate ourselves and our children about other countries and cultures.

Sooner or later we must absorb Islam if our own culture is not to die of anemia.

In Europe they understand that the arts are incredibly important both culturally and economically.

No nation can survive without passing its heritage, language and, yes, faith to the next generation. A country must be built on something substantial and if the cultural elitists think it can be built on 'diversity,' that is a foundation of shifting sand.

I grew up with the word "volunteer" as a very powerful word in my family. I was inspired by my mother and by how selfless our family was toward others who didn't have enough.