Quotes About Culture

She's a Texan, born and raised. Football is in our blood.

For the record, I thought you were untouchable. But now that I know you think I'm a hot, sexy, Mexican god . .

I shake my head. White people. "It's

It's like a fuckin' parade of white folks, one whiter than the next.

Wasabi. Now hoiteys. Seriously, you'd think I really didn't know English.

The tale is, in large part, our capital. I was nourished on tales...when an old person dies, a whole library disappears.

Nous ne te voulons pas de mal, mais nous avons un sens africain de la race. Les blancs sont des blancs, mais vous autres descendants d'esclaves, vous n'êtes rien. Ce n'est pas ta faute, et ce n'est pas la nôtre : tu n'es rien. Tu es un, comme chaque poisson du fleuve.

Most works of art, like most wines, ought to be consumed in the district of their fabrication.

Culture is an instrument wielded by professors to manufacture professors who when their turn comes, will manufacture professors.

Leopardi aveva ragione: gli Italiani sono alla pari dei popoli più progrediti tranne che per due aspetti fondamentali: l'alfabetizzazione e una totale confusione delle idee

Gli Italiani ridono della vita: ne ridono assai più e con più verità e persuasione intima di disprezzo e di freddezza di tutte le altre nazioni.

The city is teacher of the man.

Remember our war hysteria, when we called sauerkraut 'Liberty cabbage' and somebody actually proposed calling German measles 'Liberty measles'?

As far back as I can remember, there has always been a place to which I belonged with a certainty that nothing has been able to take from me. When I say place, that means less a geographical locality and more a group of people with whom I am connected and to whom I belong.

The love of books is among the choicest gifts of the gods.

Everything is what it is: liberty is liberty, not equality or fairness or justice or culture, or human happiness or a quiet conscience.

The awe and dread with which the untutored savage contemplates his mother-in-law are amongst the most familiar facts of anthropology.

When all is said and done our resemblances to the savage are still far more numerous than our differences from him.

It is a common rule with primitive people not to waken a sleeper, because his soul is away and might not have time to get back.

There isn't an education system on the planet that teaches dance everyday to children the way we teach them mathematics. Why? Why not?

The] Japanese were a people in a profound, inverse, reverse, or if I preferred it, even perverse sense, more in love with death than living.

The English are polite by telling lies. The Americans are polite by telling the truth.

I like the English. They have the most rigid code of immorality in the world.

The better class of Briton likes to send his children away to school until they're old and intelligent enough to come home again. Then they're too old and intelligent to want to.