Quotes About Culture

The English in politics are as the old Hebrews in religion, a favoured and peculiar people.

The European talks of progress because by the aid of a few scientific discoveries he has established a society which has mistaken comfort for civilisation.

Marry your son when you will, but you daughter when you can.

He was so learned that he could name a horse in nine languages; so ignorant that he bought a cow to ride on.

No European who has tasted savage life can afterwards bear to live in our societies.

If you eat one another, I don't see why we may not eat you.

The only legitimate artists in England are the architects.

BERRI: "Yes," I remember my first word in American English was "yes," and I remember as a boy speaking quickly, effortlessly, without a trace of an accent in American English. And, just as swiftly, I remember losing my Hebrew vocabulary, as my parents spoke German at home, which I understood but never spoke.

We dissect nature along lines laid down by our native language. Language is not simply a reporting device for experience but a defining framework for it.

Language shapes the way we think, and determines what we can think about.

Second, that the structure of the language one habitually uses influences the manner in which one understands his environment. The picture of the universe shifts from tongue to tongue.

all higher levels of thinking are dependent on language.

Here in America my classmates don't know what they are living for, but in Israel, we know.

People all over the world meditate in many ways, following a wide variety of recommendations.

And we speak of the sexualization of the spirit: this is the morality of the prostitute. She represents culture in Eros; Eros, who is the most powerful individualist, the most hostile to culture--even he can be perverted; even he can serve culture.

De young an old are doing it I have a rappin mudder Everybody has dere rap so let's rap to each other No matter what yu style or de hat dat yu are wearing Yu can even get away wida little swearing, Fuck.

We advise tea for the whole nation and for every nation. We advise men and women to drink tea daily; hour by hour if possible; beginning with ten cups a day, and increasing the dose to the utmost quantity that the stomach can contain and the kidneys eliminate. [Quoting Dr. Cornelius Buntekuh, Dutch physician in the pay of the Dutch East India Company, c. 1680]

Literature's always a good card to play for Honours. It makes people think that Cabinet ministers are educated.

Roses are reddish Violets are bluish If it weren't for Christmas We'd all be Jewish.

Sometimes when Australians go overseas, it's as though the 'Aussie' is refined out of them. I don't know why. It's never happened to me, because I'm really proud of it. I'm not embarrassed about where I'm from or who I am any more. I know who I am. I don't fit in everywhere, but I know where I do fit in.

Audiences in the U.S. can sometimes be a lot less refined. If they like something, they tend to express it more loudly.

Boston has carried the practice of hypocrisy to the n-th degree of refinement, grace, and failure.

To be in Florence is to reflect on Europe's intricate diversity - and its lost creativity.

All songs, all pieces of art, reflect the world that they were made in and the values of those artists and the hopes and aspirations of the people who listen to that music and who made that music.