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Quotes About Culture

The more you travel, the better you get at it.
~ Roman Coppola
A wise traveler never despises his own country. [It., Un viaggiatore prudente non disprezza mai il suo paese.]
~ Carlo Goldoni
I became a model to see the world, to make enough money to travel and experience other cultures.
~ Lauren Hutton
Is it true that one travels in order to know mankind? It is easier to get to know other people at home, but abroad one gets to know oneself.
~ Franz Grillparzer
Night falls over Machu Picchu to the sound of Abba's 'Dancing Queen'.
~ Michael Palin, Full Circle
It is always a taut moment in a foreign country waiting to see if your English-speaking guide speaks English.
~ Peg Bracken
I am constantly drawing inspiration from everything I see-the places I travel, the people I know and the movies I see.
~ Ralph Lauren
According to the law of custom, and perhaps of reason, foreign travel completes the education of an English gentleman.
~ Edward Gibbon
I feel very lucky to have been able to travel and see different parts of the world.
~ Dakota Fanning
In Mexico, everything on the menu is the same dish. The only difference is the way it's folded.
~ Billy Connolly
Turning your nose up at a genuine and sincere gesture of hospitality is no way to travel or to make friends around the world.
~ Anthony Bourdain
Italy and London are the only places where I don't feel to exist on sufferance.
~ E.M. Forster
For me, writing stories set, well, wherever they're best set, is a form of cultural curiosity that is uniquely Scottish - we're famous for travelling in search of adventure.
~ Sara Sheridan
I don't like dealing with money transactions in poor countries. I get confused between the feeling that I shouldn't haggle with poverty and getting ripped off
~ Alex Garland, The Beach
The more you travel, the more well-off youll be, I think.
~ RJ Mitte
I think young people should travel and travel often to other countries like I do.
~ Henry Rollins
It is true that I once refused to eat haggis in Scotland and this did not sit well with the local population.
~ Rick Riordan
I haven't been abroad in so long that I almost speak English without an accent now.
~ Robert Benchley
I love travel. There's nothing more beneficial than getting to travel, to see different cultures, to see different environments and expose your children to that.
~ Teri Hatcher
When a Man is tried of London, he is tired of life.
~ Samuel Johnson
American movies are often very good at mining those great underlying myths that make films robustly travel across class, age, gender, culture.
~ Tom Hooper
There's something with the physical size of America... American writers can write about America and it can still feel like a foreign country.
~ Mark Haddon
We Americans look funny when we're in France because we don't travel, we are fairly un-cultured whereas Europeans go to Africa all the time because it's right there.
~ Henry Rollins
I don't know how it is the most unattractive creatures of every nation seem to be the ones who travel.
~ Elinor Glyn