#cultures

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

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

I certainly can't speak for all cultures or all societies, but it's clear that in America, poetry serves a very marginal purpose. It's not part of the cultural mainstream. ↗

— Mark Strand

#certainly #clear #cultural #cultures #i

When Mrs. Bush was First Lady, she went all over the Mideast talking about breast cancer awareness and the need for early screening. She did this in places where the cultures prohibit such discussion or even detection efforts. ↗

— Greta Van Susteren

#awareness #breast cancer #bush #cancer #cultures

Xenophobia manifests itself especially against civilizations and cultures that are weak because they lack economic resources, means of subsistence or land. So nomadic people are the first targets of this kind of aggression. ↗

— Antonio Tabucchi

#aggression #because #civilizations #cultures #economic

I am very happy since when I am in different cities I can experience and learn different cultures! ↗

— Yani Tseng

#cities #cultures #different #different cultures #experience

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

People have to start talking to know more about other cultures and to understand each other. ↗

— Martin Scorsese

#cultures #each #know #more #other

I definitely believe in a God and in a higher power, and I definitely take from many different religious cultures. I go to church. ↗

— Jane Seymour

#church #cultures #definitely #different #go

At the descriptive level, certainly, you would expect different cultures to develop different sorts of ethics and obviously they have; that doesn't mean that you can't think of overarching ethical principles you would want people to follow in all kinds of places. ↗

— Peter Singer

#cultures #descriptive #develop #different #different cultures