Quotes About Culture

If you're feeling insecure and you need to feel special, the best place to go is somewhere foreign where people treat you as special because you're different.

It's fascinating to travel around Italy and realize just how many different ways they make spaghetti.

People going from Southern Italy to the North say that they feel cold not only for the different climate, but for the less "warm" approach in relationships.

Travel is lethal to prejudice.

If Paris is a city of lights, Sydney is the city of fireworks.

Bologna is the best city in Italy for food and has the least number of tourists. With its medieval beauty, it has it all.

Surely one advantage of traveling is that, while it removes much prejudice against foreigners and their customs, it intensifies tenfold one's appreciation of the good at home.

In Marseilles they make half the toilet soap we consume in America, but the Marseillaise only have a vague theoretical idea of its use, which they have obtained from books of travel.

I am leaving the town to the invaders: increasingly numerous, mediocre, dirty, badly behaved, shameless tourists.

I've opened up more by traveling outside Jamaica. It helps me to grow as a person to be outside of my element; to be on my own in a strange place meeting people.

Without a knowledge of languages you feel as if you don't have a passport.

Every land has its own special rhythm, and unless the traveler takes the time to learn the rhythm, he or she will remain an outsider there always.

The best education I have ever received was through travel.

Tourists went on holidays while travellers did something else. They travelled.

Paris is always a good idea.

Calling a taxi in Texas is like calling a rabbi in Iraq.

Musicians can travel all over the world and have an audience, because there's no language barrier.

Real travel would be to see the world, for even an instant, with another's eyes

A man who has not been in Italy, is always conscious of an inferiority.

All the privileged can travel, see different worlds, not everyone can. I think it is important for people to have an interesting locale nearby.

Too often travel, instead of broadening the mind, merely lengthens the conversations.

Travel ennobles the spirit and does away with our prejudices.

Without language, one cannot talk to people and understand them; one cannot share their hopes and aspirations, grasp their history, appreciate their poetry, or savor their songs.

To travel is to possess the world