Quotes About Cultural

Why Italian? In order to develop another pair of eyes, in order to experiment with weakness

Screw up my life? He stared at me for a second and then said, deadpan, I'm a five-foot-three, thirty-seven-year-old, single, Jewish medical examiner who needs to pick up his lederhosen from the dry cleaners so that he can play in a one-man polka band at Oktoberfest tomorrow. He pushed up his glasses with his forefinger, folded his arms, and said, Do your worst.

Peabody may not have seen the man turn into a grizzly, but he was bright enough to know that Injun Joe was getting set to adjust another relative ass-to-ears ratio.

The heart of racism was and is economic, though its roots and results are also deeply cultural, psychological, sexual, religious, and, of course, political. Due to 246 years of brutal slavery and an additional 100 years of legal segregation and discrimination, no area of the relationship between black and white people in the United States is free from the legacy of racism.

Humor, humility, and, of course, honesty, all are qualities that work in public and cultural diplomacy.

The Grand Canyon? UmmI guess. What about Miami?! We can take in the cultural sights liketheaquarium. And stuff.

In a world where men have always been in charge, it was hard for women to break through. But Ka'ahumanu was different. She was born to rule (Kneubuhl 27)

Never mock another culture's food or drink; it is a mortal sin.

truth is truth, regardless of whether it seems to be "anti" anything. It is foolish to cite racial or cultural prejudice as an argument against a theological doctrine when we are considering its veracity and not the motive for supporting

Nevertheless, Los Angeles is my "Home, Sweet Home." I chose it, and, as goes the cliché, I've made my bed—but I'll be damned if I'll lie in it or, worse, culturally die in it!

Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.

The building of railways seems to be a simple, natural, democratic, cultural and civilising enterprise; that is what it is in the opinion of the bourgeois professors who are paid to depict capitalist slavery in bright colours, and in the opinion of petty-bourgeois philistines.

I know," Wenling said. "When I first came here, everyone wanted to be friends with the Chinese girl. And you know what they serve me when I'm invited to their house for dinner? Still? Chinese food. Every. Single. Time.

One of the most important tasks of the Cultural Revolution affecting the wide masses is the task of systematically and unswervingly combating religion—the opium of the people.

The urge to reproduce, once inextricably linked to sex, may have a connection to a neurotic fantasy of cheating death by creating an enduring legacy. You can test the primal strength of this cultural idea by noting how no one questions the rationality of reproduction, even in a world of rapidly dwindling resources. Meanwhile, people who choose not to have children often receive both religious and secular disdain as selfish, the breakers of an unspoken social contract, or simply odd.

American women expect to find in their husbands a perfection that English women only hope to find in their butlers.

The Irish word for fairy is sheehogue [sidheóg], a diminutive of "shee" in banshee. Fairies are deenee shee [daoine sidhe] (fairy people).

There are some great shows that come and go really fast, either because the network doesn't give them a chance or they just don't grab on to the psyche of the country quickly enough.

I never believed in Santa Claus because I knew no white dude would come into my neighborhood after dark.

Educational exchange can turn nations into people, contributing as no other form of communication can to the humanizing of international relations

If your computer speaks English, it was probably made in Japan.

Apple has struck a cultural nerve, especially with Generation X and Gen Y, while Windows and PC are viewed in essence as 'My parents' computer'.

The Achilles Heel of the Americas was the lack of cultural confidence typical of new settlers.

When I was growing up and somebody like Robert De Niro had a movie come out, it was a cultural event. Because he had such a confidence and a single mission that was so intimate.