Quotes About Culture

I think Canadian humor is a little less broad than American humor.

In France, everyone speaks French 'cause they think it's cool. Gives 'em, gives 'em an excuse to smoke.

Everyone in the world was programmed by the place they were born, hemmed in by their beliefs, but you had to at least try to grow your own brain.

That's the Irish People all over - they treat a serious thing as a joke and a joke as a serious thing.

At home in Ireland, there's a habit of avoidance, an ironical attitude towards the authority figure.

Islanders too are for sculpting.

Foreign places yield more to one who is himself worth meeting.

The Beatles mean so much to so many people, you know? Everybody has at least one song of The Beatles that's one of their favorite songs of all time.

There is practically no sense that is not violated every time we return from the country or the sea to Paris or London or New York.

In Rome people spend most of their time having lunch. And they do it very well - Rome is unquestionably the lunch capital of the world.

Out of monuments, names, words proverbs ...and the like, we do save and recover somewhat from the deluge of time.

Television is what its always been. The best of times and the worst of times at the same time.

Vodka has a huge history in Russia, in that it's almost like a currency. It's the one thing that keeps the country in the dark ages and having a rollicking good time.

Each time you admire the façade of the New York Public Library, you are paying homage to Western civilization.

Bruges is a beautiful medieval city almost untouched by time. If you like jazz, you will be well catered for. If you like chocolate and beer, you will be in heaven.

I think people are gravitating towards these period dramas because I think they're looking for a simpler time.

I remember a day and time when the streets indicated what was hot online, and now I think it's starting to reverse a little bit.

I came to the US as an immigrant and I recall vividly those first few years in California, the brief time we spent on welfare, and the difficult task of assimilating into a new culture.

Every hero mirrors the time and place in which he lives. He must reflect men's innermost hopes and beliefs in a public way.

I came up during that time when music, to me, was really music. It wasn't about talking about a woman and calling them a derogatory name or something like that. It was real music.

Polemical debates happen all the time in France.

Culturally, I think 'All in the Family' was universal enough to have good timing at any time.

Along with all else, Sandman is a comic strip for intellectuals, and I say it's about time.

The environment does not determine man's culture; it merely sets the outer limits and at the same time offers opportunities.