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    I do not want my house to be walled in on all sides and my windows to be stuffed. I want the cultures of all the lands to be blown about my house as freely as possible. But I refuse to be blown off my feet by any.

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A house is a machine for living in.

A house is a machine for living in.

by Le Corbusier Found in: Home Quotes, Houses Quotes,
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A culture is made -- or destroyed -- by its articulate voices.

A culture is made -- or destroyed -- by its articulate voices.

by Ayn Rand Found in: Culture Quotes, Vision Quotes,
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Culture is one thing and varnish is another.

Culture is one thing and varnish is another.

by Ralph Waldo Emerson Found in: Culture Quotes,
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That is true culture which helps us to work for the social betterment of all.

That is true culture which helps us to work for the social betterment of all.

by Henry Ward Beecher Found in: Culture Quotes,
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"What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions. Life is plurality, death is uniformity. read more

"What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions. Life is plurality, death is uniformity. By suppressing differences and pecularities, by eliminating different civilizations and cultures, progress weakens life and favors death. The ideal of a single civilization for everyone, implicit in the cult of progress and technique, impoverishes and mutilates us. Every view of the world that becomes extinct, every culture that disappears, diminishes a possibility of life"

by Octavio Paz Found in: Culture Quotes,
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People can only live fully by helping others to live. When you give life to friends you truly live. Cultures read more

People can only live fully by helping others to live. When you give life to friends you truly live. Cultures can only realize their further richness by honoring other traditions. And only by respecting natural life can humanity continue to exist.

by Daisaku Ikeda Found in: Culture Quotes,
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It always amazes me to think that every house on every street is full of so many stories; so many read more

It always amazes me to think that every house on every street is full of so many stories; so many triumphs and tragedies, and all we see are yards and driveways.

by Glenn Close Found in: Houses Quotes,
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I have a microwave fireplace in my house. The other night I laid down in front of the fire for read more

I have a microwave fireplace in my house. The other night I laid down in front of the fire for the evening in two minutes.

by Stephen Wright Found in: Houses Quotes,
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Culture is the sum of all the forms of art, of love, and of thought, which, in the coarse or read more

Culture is the sum of all the forms of art, of love, and of thought, which, in the coarse or centuries, have enabled man to be less enslaved

by Andre Malraux Found in: Culture Quotes,
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