Famous Quotes & Sayings

Edward Sapir

During the more than four hundred years that have elapsed since the discovery of America, the native cultures have naturally not been static.

We live in a culture where knowing your customers one by one as individuals is more important than ever before. Large mass demographic trends are no longer as predictive as they once were because the marketplace is too diversified.

We live in a culture that tells us you shouldn't have to wait for anything, or worse, that something is wrong if you have to wait. I'm a gardener. I know there's nothing wrong with waiting and, in fact, that some of the joy is tied up in the waiting.

Alberto Tomba

It's typical of Italian culture that we only start to feel emotional about something when we have the possibility to see it in front of us. By February, Italy will have Olympic fever.

We do not take this lightly. The Stanley Cup is the greatest sports trophy anywhere, ever. It is unique and a huge part of our culture and heritage.

Siri Hustvedt

Being a mother is complicated because it's not just a paternal culture making demands on you; it's those internal demands and expectations that women have and are self-generated.

Being there really sealed for me the fact that the world needs to hold onto the culture they have. It is so transporting. It just takes you out of the place where you've been and into a completely new area.

Being assimilated into a new culture and environment takes time and if not managed carefully, can turn into an ugly experience.

transform the culture of education into one that respects free speech for everybody.

Sathya Baba

As the mother, so the progress of the nation. As the mother, so the sweetness of culture!

Mike Huckabee

As a governor, I've signed virtually every kind of pro-life legislation that we can sign under existing federal law, none of which have been harsh or punitive, but I think they've been important to really point out a pro-life culture in Arkansas. That's, for me, a good thing.

We are a pretty traditional culture here and we identify with traditional form factors like camera, and we still use phones (primarily) for making calls,

We are an incredibly performance-focused operation. We have developed a culture around growth and focused work.

We are a new unified culture, more efficient, more profitable and with better service for our customers.

We are an amnesiac culture. If you are not out there self-promoting at every junction, you're not going to be remembered.

Bill Richardson

What I should have said, what I didn't take into account, is that the lab culture needs to be changed, ... I didn't take in the human element.

What I've encountered is a culture of greed and deception.

We found that success involved much more than skilled individual doctors and nurses. What distinguished these hospitals was how well they were organized, how teams functioned together, how the culture rewarded quality improvement and how they dealt with setbacks.

John Lasseter

With science, there is this culture of experimentation, and most of the time, those experiments fail.

You have to talk about the culture before you can talk about business.

Sathya Baba

Women are the repositories of Truth and Culture.

Douglas Merrill

We're taking on people who have technical skills who also fit our culture and are excited about our innovation mission as fast as we possibly can.

Stephen Jay Gould

The contingency of history (both for life in general and for the cultures of Homo sapiens ) and human free will (in the factual rather than theological sense) are conjoined concepts, and no better evidence can be produced than the "experimental" production of markedly different solutions in identical environments.

The race fits the culture of New Mexico well.

(The organizers at AFS) warned us about having culture shock when we come back.

Jakaya Kikwete

The opposition should look seriously into reasons that led them to be rejected by the people. To show our good faith in promoting the culture of opposition (politics) in this country, I am going to set up a ministry to look into government and opposition relations.

There is so much about hip-hop culture that is peculiar to New York, and I got to understand it from that point of view.

Jon Corzine

We have a culture of people who look to government as a way to make money, ... Whoever is the next governor has got to take this on tooth and nail, and I intend to do it.

We have a culture of losing we have to get past. Hopefully, we can turn things around.

We have a culture in Knoxville where there is a huge problem of kids smoking pot. I mean, it's rapid here in Knox County.

We inhabit a culture that's disgusted by intellect,

We don't think of their prior lives in other countries. We know our culture, our law enforcement system, how we interview people.

Liev Schreiber

We talked about our grandfathers and their senses of humor and our sense of culture and history, and we had a lot in common,