Quotes & Sayings About Cultural Legacies

To be at peace in any endeavour, we must release our need to control the outcome. — Diane Dreher

Beloved community is formed not by the eradication of difference but by its affirmation, by each of us claiming the identities and cultural legacies that shape who we are and how we live in the world. — Bell Hooks

Cultural legacies are powerful forces. They have deep roots and long lives. They persist, generation after generation, virtually intact, even as the economic and social and demographic conditions that spawned them have vanished, and they play such a role in directing attitudes and behavior that we cannot make sense of our world without them. — Malcolm Gladwell

In the attempt to find the just measure of horror and terror, I came upon the writing of Carole Gill whose work revealed a whole new dimension to me. The figure of the gothic child was there. Stoker's horror was there. Along with the romance! At the heart of her writing one stumbles upon a genuine search for that darkness we lost with the loss of Stoker."

~Dr. Margarita Georgieva ~ Gothic Readings in The Dark — Carole Gill

Extraordinary opportunities and cultural legacies that allow them to learn and work hard and make — Malcolm Gladwell

In terrible moments, in moments of revolution, of war or repression, of illness or death, people react with incredible strength. — Isabel Allende

When I was 6 my father went to fight in the war, so he was my big hero. I thought he was the greatest thing. — Michael Caine

Alas, how wretched is the being who depends on the stability of public favour! — Sarah Siddons

A life without trouble and tragedy is boring and not a plot for comedy. — Debasish Mridha

A concerted effort to preserve our heritage is a vital link to our cultural, educational, aesthetic, inspirational, and economic legacies - all of the things that quite literally make us who we are. — Steve Berry

[from the Acknowledgments page] ...and while comments are very welcome, I would suggest it is a waste of your precious time. — Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse

People don't rise from nothing. We do owe something to parentage and patronage. The people who stand before kings may look like they did it all by themselves. But in fact they are invariably the beneficiaries of hidden advantages and extraordinary opportunities and cultural legacies that allow them to learn and work hard and make sense of the world in ways others cannot. — Malcolm Gladwell

The people who stand before kings may look like they did it all by themselves. But in fact they are invariably the beneficiaries of hidden advantages and extraordinary opportunities and cultural legacies that allow them to learn and work hard and make sense of the world in ways others cannot. It makes a difference where and when we grew up. — Malcolm Gladwell

Maybe you're not meant to fit in. maybe you're supposed to stand out. — Taylor Swift

The "culture of honor" hypothesis says that it matters where you're from, not just in terms of where you grew up or where your parents grew up, but in terms of where your great-grandparents and great-great-great-grandparents grew up. That is a strange and powerful fact. It's just the beginning, though, because upon closer examination, cultural legacies turn out to be even stranger and more powerful than that. — Malcolm Gladwell

Real life is crazier than fiction. — Lauren Bowles