I am convinced that the stratigraphic method will in the future enable archaeology to throw far more light on the history of American culture than it has done in the past.

The game is the ultimate significance to me because it is so important to a lot of people. It has left a mark on our culture to be voted as one of the best to ever play.

Olympism is the marriage of sport and culture.

Olympism is a philosophy which, by blending sport with culture, seeks to create a way of life based on the joy found in effort, the educational value of good example and respect for universal ethical principles.

My father was a diplomat for part of his life and I jumped from country to country and culture to culture.

I come from a country and also a continent whose identity is in the making. We're a very young culture, and I think that things are not yet crystallised.

Reality TV is sleazy, it is manipulative. It is as momentary as anything in popular culture.

By ignoring a lot of American culture you can write more interesting stories. Unfortunately, if you were writing about America as it is, you'd be writing about a lot of people sitting in front of television sets.

The idea of the sacred is quite simply one of the most conservative notions in any culture, because it seeks to turn other ideas - uncertainty, progress, change - into crimes.

Within our culture, every school has a swimming pool. We lived on the coast. People swam in the surf. It's a very sporty nation and at that particular time anyone who had an artistic bent was very much an outsider. So if you liked reading or ideas or playing the piano then your dad viewed you as a sissy, basically.

Those who speak of our culture as dead or dying have a quarrel with life, and I think they cannot understand its terms, but must endlessly repeat the projection of their own desires.

We're warriors, this culture, and we're very puritanical about sex and very embracing about violence and I don't know why that is.

The purpose of education is to keep a culture from being drowned in senseless repetitions, each of which claims to offer a new insight.

The whole surf culture is starting to embrace women a lot more.

I'm more of a culture hummingbird.