#culture

At certain historic moments, grandparents took on childrearing responsibilities. In many cultures, they still do. Chinese grandparents who are able to retire at 55 are seen all over Beijing bouncing grandbabies. In the United States, we can't afford to retire at 55. ↗

— Erica Jong

#afford #beijing #bouncing #certain #chinese

We've switched from a culture that was interested in manufacturing, economics, politics - trying to play a serious part in the world - to a culture that's really entertainment-based. ↗

— Stephen King

#economics #interested #manufacturing #part #play

We could see that he was a charismatic guy who jumps over the moon and is very competitive, but nobody could have predicted what he would become to our culture. ↗

— Phil Knight

#charismatic #competitive #could #culture #guy

I deeply believe that if the Australian Labor Party, a party of which I have been a proud member for more than 30 years, is to have the best future for our nation, then it must change fundamentally its culture and to end the power of faceless men. Australia must be governed by the people, not by the factions. ↗

— Kevin Rudd

#australian #been #believe #best #by the people

We are so fortunate, as Australians, to have among us the oldest continuing cultures in human history. Cultures that link our nation with deepest antiquity. We have Aboriginal rock art in the Kimberley that is as ancient as the great Palaeolithic cave paintings at Altamira and Lascaux in Europe. ↗

— Kevin Rudd

#among #ancient #antiquity #art #australians

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. ↗

— Mark Ruffalo

#culture #embracing #i #know #puritanical

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

— Walter Salles

#culture #diplomat #father #his #i

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

#between #brazil #closer #cultures #dialogue

The things that inform student culture are created and controlled by the unseen culture, the sociological aspects of our climbing culture, our 'me' generation, our yuppie culture, our SUVs, or, you know, shopping culture, our war culture. ↗

— Gus Van Sant

#climbing #controlled #created #culture #generation

When I grew up in the '60s, we were actually dominated by this, you know, sort of conforming '50s culture, even though we were like trying to express our own culture, like, the dominant culture was the thing that was forming us. And I think that that's true today. ↗

— Gus Van Sant

#conforming #culture #dominant #dominated #even