It's exciting to think that something I'm involved in is touching so many people in so many cultures.
Paul Guilfoyle

Jerusalem is a festival and a lamentation. Its song is a sigh across the ages, a delicate, robust, mournful psalm at the great junction of spiritual cultures.
David K. Shipler

Many cultures have independently developed a belief system in reincarnation that includes return of the unit of consciousness to another physical lifetime on Earth.
Stanislav Grof

Most of the debate over the cultures of death and life is about process. The debate focuses on the technology available to determine how we prolong life and how and when we end it.
Suzanne Fields

My wife wanted my children to have some Chinese culture and education. She believes the children need to learn two languages and two cultures.
Jet Li

Our incapacity to comprehend other cultures stems from our insistence on measuring things in our own terms.
Arthur Erickson

Our working hypothesis is that the status of knowledge is altered as societies enter what is known as the postindustrial age and cultures enter what is known as the postmodern age.
Jean-Francois Lyotard

Peace Corps helps promote global acceptance of the principles of international peace and non-violent co-existence among people of diverse cultures and systems of government.
Sam Farr

Preservation of one's own culture does not require contempt or disrespect for other cultures.
Cesar Chavez

Race wasn't an issue. My family was French, but Yorkville was a melting pot of races and cultures.
Bob Cousy

Respecting other people's cultures is well and good, but I draw the line at where some branches of Islam, what they do to women. It's indefensible.
Jello Biafra

Science, for hundreds of years, has spanned the differences between cultures and between countries.
Laurel Clark

So I feel a responsibility to help first-time film-makers in Brazil, but also to increase the dialogue between film cultures which are really wonderful and so much closer to us than what we do see on our screens.
Walter Salles

So I've never found there was any particular separation between the two cultures at all, musically speaking.
Neville Marriner

Tahiti has been spoiled for many years, but Bali is one of the few cultures with origins in one of the great ancient cultures which is still alive.
Arthur Erickson

That was the first major social sciences conference at which social scientists from all cultures wanted to reach a consensus on whether we can continue to pursue a national course in the social sciences or whether we need a cosmopolitan path that also connects us in a new way.
Ulrich Beck

The ability to mingle with so many countries and cultures is extremely valuable for men and women.
Bill Toomey

The antagonism between the poet and the politician has generally been evident in all cultures.
Salvatore Quasimodo

The Bible was written in several languages, embraces many literary forms, and reflects cultures very different from our own. These are important considerations for properly understanding the Bible in its context.
Troy Perry

The Ice Storm, because of the movie, has had, or is to have, a vigorous life in other cultures.
Rick Moody