Quotes About Culture

Señores, señoras: bienvenidos a la Zheng He.

La historia es, por definición, estupefaciente.

Literature is a state of culture, poetry is a state of grace, before and after culture.

Y ahí el veterano se acordó de la charla sobre las milanesas. El culo y las milanesas, valores universales.

Más vale un jaleo probé y unos pimientos asaos que no tener un usía esaborío a su lao.

Pubs were one of the things Dougless liked best about England, as they were family oriented, but you could still have a drink.

I'm an American and I want instant gratification.

How do you say yoo-hoo in Arabic?" "I believe that yoo-hoo could be part of a universal language," Dan said. "Like ow. Or- you're stepping on my foot." "That's universal?" "No, you're stepping on my foot. Ow." Amy moved.

T]he cultural shocks that emanate from new scientific findings are eventually settled by cultural realignments that accommodate those findings—not by concealment. A prerequisite for this realignment is that we sort out the science from the culture before opinions become inflamed.

Sometimes nudity is gratuitous. We just live in a society where everything goes.

Funk and Wagnalls Standard Dictionary of Folklore, Mythology and Legend

As a result, gender is not to culture as sex is to nature; gender is also the discursive/cultural means by which "sexed nature" or "a natural sex" is produced and established as "prediscursive," prior to culture, a politically neutral surface on which culture acts

If the immutable character of sex is contested, perhaps this construct called 'sex' is as culturally constructed as gender; indeed, perhaps it was always already gender, with the consequence that the distinction between sex and gender turns out to be no distinction at all.

To get to the next level of greatness depends on the quality of the culture, which depends on the quality of the relationships, which depends on the quality of the conversations. Everything happens through conversations!

In this sense, Byzantine culture embodies the French historian Fernand Braudel's notion of the longue durée , the long term: that which survives the vicissitudes of changing governments, newfangled fashions or technological improvements, an ongoing inheritance that can both imprison and inspire.

Wat ik denk te begrijpen, zeg het maar als ik me vergis, is het je thuis voelen in Berlijn. Daar is de geschiedenis minder weg dan in Nederland, tenminste, zo onderga ik het. Je ergens thuisvoelen is niet per se positief.

Daily Parisian

Survivors of atrocity of every age and every culture come to a point in their testimony where all questions are reduced to one, spoken more in bewilderment than in outrage: Why? The answer is beyond human understanding.

our world is a product of the medieval past

Parents should conduct their arguments in quiet, respectful tones, but in a foreign language. You'd be surprised what an inducement that is to the education of children.

Anyone who could remember the heyday of the cocktail party probably doesn't.

GENTLE READER

Americans used to pity and be amused at countries where the citizens all wore drab work clothes and the leaders were belligerently under-dressed for state occasions; now those people have discovered fashion, and we wear drab work clothes and are suspicious of formality.

I can write in Latin, French, and common English. I will not, however, write in German; it is a barbaric tongue that curdles the ink.