Quotes About Culture

My wife loves Europe but to me it's a bad day at a theme park.

I have no respect for gangs today. None. They just drive by and shoot people. At least in the old days like in West Side Story the gangs used to dance with each other.

A car is useless in New York essential everywhere else. The same with good manners.

I see travelling as a great learning process, and my biggest dream is to travel the world.

France is the only country where the money falls apart and you can't tear the toilet paper.

My father never lived to see his dream come true of an all-Yiddish-speaking Canada.

Usually speaking the worst-bred person in company is a young traveller just returned from abroad.

If one had but a single glance to give the world one should gaze on Istanbul.

When you travel remember that a foreign country is not designed to make you comfortable. It is designed to make its own people comfortable.

It's amazing: it's so cool being from Brampton, Ontario, and being able to travel the world and being embraced by so many countries.

When I travel, there are no rules with my diet. I eat whatever looks good, but in small portions. Food is such a rich part of the travel experience. There is no way I would cut that out!

I travel around the world, experiencing every language, every religion... some places where there's just no reason to smile, because their lives are so difficult.

Just as a tree without roots is dead, a people without history or cultural roots also becomes a dead people.

If you deconstruct Greece, you will in the end see an olive tree, a grapevine, and a boat remain. That is, with as much, you reconstruct her.

When nations grow old the Arts grow cold And commerce settles on every tree

It sometimes takes a foreigner to come and see a place and paint it. I remember someone saying they had never really noticed the palm trees here until I painted them.

A tree lives on its roots. If you change the root, you change the tree. Culture lives in human beings. If you change the human heart the culture will follow.

The trees encountered on a country stroll Reveal a lot about that country's soul ... A culture is no better than its woods.

Trees have roots, Jews have legs.

Myth is never a single story. It is always a tree with many branches.

I'm Jewish and my wife isn't so right now we're literally decorating a Christmas tree with Jewish stars draped around it.

My tribute to mystical, magical trees that the Cherokee called "standing people. . . ."

When the president of the United States flicks the switch to light up the Christmas tree on the White House lawn, that house ceases to be an American symbol; it becomes a Christian symbol.

In the southern hemisphere, covering the Christmas tree with fake snow even though winter has nothing to do with the birth of Christ.