Quotes about Culture

The chief glory of every people arises from its authors.

I don't think even ungodly people realize what a society would be like that had no godly influence at all.

The real turning point in human history is less apt to be the day the wheel is invented or Rome falls than the day a boy is born to a couple of hick Jews.

The man is interested in the sowing of wheat in the field; the woman in making the bread.

The Church knows too that to marry the present age and its spirit is to become a widow in the next.

People are turning away from Christianity today not because it is too hard but because it is too soft.

A wise traveler never despises his own country.

America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.

It is essential that God created men and women to be one, as it is said in the first chapters of the Bible. So I think even if our culture is against marriage as essential form of relations between human beings, between women and men. I think our nature is always present, and we can understand it if we will understand it.

I have a vision of artists putting into film, drama, literature, music, and paintings great themes and great characters from the Book of Mormon.

Part of my life's thesis is that we live in a culture that has bought into the patently silly idea that there is a divide between the secular world and the faith world.

The style of the Bible in general is singularly adapted to men of every class and grade of culture, affording the child the simple nourishment for its religious wants, and the profoundest thinker inexhaustible matter of study.