Ngaio Marsh Quotes

Whether you're choosing for yourself or for a character - or for a child - names have baggage of their own.

Indian names were either characteristic nicknames given in a playful spirit, deed names, birth names, or such as have a religious and symbolic meaning.

My name is Arsenio. That's a very unique name for a black man. In Greek, it means Leroy.

My mom named me Pom because she said it sounded like a combination of Korean words that mean 'spring' and 'tiger.' So, it's very unique!

My family is from Nigeria, and my full name is Uzoamaka, which means 'The road is good.'

I'm of Nigerian descent, from the Yoruba tribe. Names are very significant in that culture. It basically states your purpose in life.

I'm part Maori. My mum's Maori, and she raised me. And my grandma, she's Maori.

History provides no precise guidelines.

We are so fortunate, as Australians, to have among us the oldest continuing cultures in human history. Cultures that link our nation with deepest antiquity. We have Aboriginal rock art in the Kimberley that is as ancient as the great Palaeolithic cave paintings at Altamira and Lascaux in Europe.

Maybe I am not French, maybe I am from nowhere.

Words take on many different meanings.

We need art more than ever as we stagger toward the Millennium.

We also shot at a location that was an Aboriginal sacred ground for the shots coming up the cliff.

Cultures, along with the religions that shape and nurture them, are value systems, sets of traditions and habits clustered around one or several languages, producing meaning: for the self, for the here and now, for the community, for life.

I feel that for years of teaching in the country and reading criticism in books, I feel like the things most needed in our culture are the understanding of the meanings of our music. We haven't done that good of job teaching our kids what our music means or how we developed our taste in music that reminds us and teaches us who we are.

I'm quite proud of growing up in New Zealand where, from quite early on in primary school, you're learning to count in Maori, Maori mythology and dances and colours and history, and I think that gives a child a really good grounding.

Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of the ages through which they have passed.

I went to a boarding school with a strong Maori tradition, where we were taught all about the haka.

Folktales are real.

We even had a different word for Christmas in my language, Bengali: Baradin, which literally meant 'big day.'

For Russians, to whom Pushkin's poem 'Eugene Onegin' is sacred text, the ballet's story and personae are as familiar and filled with meaning as, for instance, 'Romeo' and 'Hamlet' are for us. Russians know whole stretches of it by heart, the way we know Shakespeare and Italians know Dante.

My parents gave me a Mexican name. In our culture, we are named after the events of the day.

It's a really important thing for Aboriginal people to remember how stories are told and the power of stories, and make it an important feature in our world again.

Beginning in the late 18th century, some German scholars began to regard Holy Scripture not as a single revelation but a sequence of inspired texts that occurred in specific times and places and were subject to varied and multiple meanings.

'Culture' is a finite segment of the meaningless infinity of the world process, a segment on which human beings confer meaning and significance.