Quotes About Culture

Hello?" "Ah, is this the ... Bow-shawmp residence?" There was no trace of a Texas twang in the caller's accent, nor anything of the South. "Beech-um, yes, that's us. Sorry." "Ah, yeah. Beech-um? Okay.

She approached him because my culture eschews the Force. That, after all, was where all this started, with militarized religious cults turning children into monsters.

Underneath the professional smiles there is a sadness in this country that is sunk so deep in the culture you can taste it in your morning Cheerios.

Metal is still the biggest music now in America.

Krezy, he pronounced it, krezy. Pure Roscommon. Pure Ghana.

Statt Klopapier und Nudeln sollten die Menschen lieber Kultur hamstern. Ich hoffe sehr, dass unsere Supermärkte für geistige Nahrung bald wieder öffnen!

Lo que uno come y bebe, la persona a la que uno ama, las aficiones a las que dedica su tiempo libre, la gente con la que trata, si sonríe o tiene un aspecto siniestro, lo que lee y los cuadros que cuelga en la pared... en eso consiste la lucha política en Alemania. Éste es el campo sobre el que se deciden de antemano las batallas de la futura guerra mundial. Puede sonar grotesco, pero es así.

Comradeship always sets the cultural tone at the lowest possible level, accessible to everyone. It cannot tolerate discussion; in the chemical solution of comradeship, discussion immediately takes on the color of whining and grumbling. It becomes a mortal sin. Comradeship admits no thoughts, just mass feelings of the most primitive sort

If my experience of Germany has taught me anything, it is this: Rathenau and Hitler are the two men who excited the imagination of the German masses to the utmost; the one by his ineffable culture, the other by his ineffable vileness.

I think things like food, the food of the south is sort of the common tie that binds us all, Black and White, the sense memories. It's a very particular part of the country.

With the possible exception of grits, there's no food more Southern than greens, whose bitter smell while cooking down in salty fatback amid the jittery hiss of a pressure cooker is a Proustian madeleine for generations of black and white Southerners alike. The

According to Cemil Cicek these people do not have problems regarding language, culture or faith, all is about the circumcision. If that is really the problem and if you are so interested we can appoint you as the "government circumciser" and send you to Kandil (PKK HQ in northern Iraq) to solve it. (On the quote of Cemil Cicek, speaker for AKP: "Some of those PKK terrorists without circumcision should tell you a lot about the issue")

And in fact, I am a foreigner everywhere in the world: as soon as I leave my home, I step into a void.

Whenever I'm in the company of strangers and speak in a way that reveals my Slav accent, the question follows: "Where are you from?" I always reply politely. It's very important to me that I say exactly where I'm from, and explain where that place is in case the person I'm talking to has never hears of my country ("in Europe, near Italy"). I suppose that's the need in me to feel accepted for what I am.

Once, long ago, there was a world in which we called different languages "ours".

As the soil, however rich it may be, cannot be productive without cultivation, so the mind without culture can never produce good fruit.

What once were vices are manners now.

No wonder men didn't take women seriously; they had classes in walking while men learned ancient languages.

Cet empire du jetable finit par toucher l'homme lui-même, dont on peut se demander si, au terme du processus, il n'est pas devenu obsolète à son tour.

Would any grown girl in Russia be frightened by a "room of horror"? Westerner's lives are too calm and peaceful, is makes them afraid of all sorts of nonsense...

In Russia a café like this would have been closed down in a moment. In Europe they would have put the owner in prison. In the USA the proprietor would have been hit with an absolutely massive fine. And in Japan the boss of an establishment like this would have committed seppuku out of a sense of shame.

Fuck your fucking mother!' Gesar howled, twisting the wheel round. In a moment of genuine terror only the Russian language could convey the true depths of his feelings. It made me feel proud of our great Russian culture!

ANTON LOVED PRAGUE. In fact, he simply couldn't understand how it was possible not to. There were some cities that confused you and suffocated you from the first, and there were some whose charm slowly and imperceptibly fascinated you.

Los japoneses —desde un cocinero envuelto en nubes de vapor hasta el director general de una compañía de alta tecnología— sostienen que la confianza es un elemento decisivo para el desarrollo de cosas fundamentales, la economía mundial, por ejemplo, casi un precepto derivado de la vida cotidiana, más allá de las particularidades de cada casa.