Quotes About Culture

In language gender is particularly confusing. Why, please, should a table be male in German, female in French, and castrated in English?

Do not tell me how educated you are. Tell me how much you have traveled, and I will know how educated you are.

If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast.

Nothing develops intelligence like travel.

I have a neighbor who knows 200 types of wine. ... I only know two types of wine - red and white. But my neighbor only knows two types of countries - industrialized and developing. And I know 200.

Prague is the Paris of the '90s.

Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.

One thing I like about Argentina, they only cook with salt; that's it.

Travel the world, learn other languages, demand liberty, despise violence, read books, and keep a dictionary nearby.

Ideally, travel broadens our perspectives personally, culturally, and politically. Suddenly, the palette with which we paint the story of our lives has more colors.

They have a joy for life in Brazil unlike any country I've ever seen.

Of one thing there is no doubt: if Paris makes demands of the heart, then Munich makes demands of the stomach.

Humor is a universal language.

I am a Mexican that has been lucky enough to travel the world, speaking English, but with a heart that speaks a universal language.

The ideal place for me is the one in which it is most natural to live as a foreigner.

People will travel anywhere for good food - it's crazy.

These are the advantages of travel, that one meets so many men whom one would otherwise never meet, and that one feeds as it were upon the complexity of mankind

It's daunting to find the language so foreign, so distant, but also so thrilling. One is absolved of responsibility when the language is incomprehensible.

Being in Blur has allowed me to travel and hear the music that's being made all over the world.

I had to travel half way across the world to be called an American.

Going to Peru is, well, if you ever have an opportunity in your life to go there, you should do it because it is absolutely mind boggling.

The worst thing about being a tourist is having other tourists recognize you as a tourist.

There are ways to minimize the risk if you are a woman working in the Middle East: You can dress modestly, wear the hijab, cover your head, always travel with a man.

Well, I'm having a good time. Which makes me feel guilty too. How very English.