#cultures

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

#ages #cultures #delicate #festival #great

What a vapid job title our culture gives to those honorable laborers the ancient Egyptians and Sumerians variously called Learned Men of the Magic Library, Scribes of the Double House of Life, Mistresses of the House of Books, or Ordainers of the Universe. 'Librarian' - that mouth-contorting, graceless grind of a word, that dry gulch in the dictionary between 'libido' and 'licentious' - it practically begs you to envision a stoop-shouldered loser, socks mismatched, eyes locked in a permanent squint from reading too much microfiche. If it were up to me, I would abolish the word entirely and turn back to the lexicological wisdom of the ancients, who saw librarians not as feeble sorters and shelvers but as heroic guardians. In Assyrian, Babylonian, and Egyptian cultures alike, those who toiled at the shelves were often bestowed with a proud, even soldierly, title: Keeper of the Books. - p.113 ↗

— Miles Harvey

#genius #librarian #titles #men

I've benefited from the best of both societies and both cultures, East and West. ↗

— King Abdullah II

#best #both #cultures #east #i

Well, if you look at all of the cultures in America, this is a great opportunity for us to really get acquainted with the rest of the world. America is the only place you can do that, but we don't have sense enough to take advantage of that. ↗

— Erykah Badu

#advantage #america #cultures #enough #get

I plead for conservation of human culture, which is much more fragile than nature herself. We needn't destroy other cultures with the force of our own. ↗

— Arthur Erickson

#culture #cultures #destroy #force #fragile

People are still crazy about Python after twenty-five years, which I find hard to believe. ↗

— Michael Palin

#art #country #cultures #drama #genuinely

I haven't met everyone from all different cultures, but I do know Aussies are very tough. ↗

— Teresa Palmer

#different #different cultures #everyone #haven #i

The truth is that our way of celebrating the Christmas season does spring from myriad cultures and sources, from St. Nicholas to Coca-Cola advertising campaigns. ↗

— Richard Roeper

#campaigns #celebrating #christmas #coca-cola #cultures

What I love the most about modeling is that it opens you a lot of different doors of opportunities and takes you to many different places, which then put you in touch with various people and cultures. ↗

— Karolina Kurkova

#cultures #different #different places #doors #i

I'm inspired by different cultures around the world and love to incorporate these facets into my collection. ↗

— Rachel Roy

#collection #cultures #different #different cultures #facets