Culturation Appropriation Quotes & Sayings

A theme in a lot of my books - and in my own life - is making choices that you feel you should make, or what society wants you to make, as opposed to what is truly right for you. — Emily Giffin

The church is like Noah's ark. It stinks, but if you get out of it, you'll drown. — Shane Claiborne

Its particular interest for Ian, however, lay in its thesis about the history of the Dutch relationship to windmills, for it emphasized that these early industrial objects had originally been felt to have all the pylons' threateningly alien qualities, rather than the air of enchantment and playfulness now routinely associated with them. They had been denounced from pulpits and occasionally burnt to the ground by suspicious villagers. — Alain De Botton

First, I'm a Christian, and so Jesus is how I understand God. I realize that for some people, hearing talk about Jesus shrinks and narrows the discussion about God, but my experience has been the exact opposite. My experiences of Jesus have opened my mind and my heart to a bigger, wider, more expansive and mysterious and loving God who I believe is actually up to something in the world. — Rob Bell

Asking the right questions is as important as answering them — Benoit Mandelbrot

There's really only one question: would you rather have died? That's an easy one for me. I'd never rather that. Not under any circumstances. I'll take survival at any price. Always. — Karen Marie Moning

I eagerly await more complex concentricity in our Canadian coinage. — Jessica Grant

The case against the Jews is long and damning; it would justify ten thousand times as many pogroms as now go on in the world. — H.L. Mencken