Quotes About Culture

Sin raíces no somos nada, es como si no tuviéramos los pies firmes sobre la tierra. Debe de ser terrible no saber quién es uno, y claro, eso sólo podemos saberlo si conocemos la historia de nuestros mayores.

Es una de las ciudades más bellas del mundo —le dijo Max refiriéndose a Cracovia. Ella le dio la razón en cuanto llegaron a la ciudad, pero le impresionó

Las manos reflejaban el alma de las mujeres y su condición social.

Lo que importa es lo que somos capaces de llegar a ser como personas, no dónde hemos nacido. Nacer en un lugar puede determinar el mundo de las emociones íntimas, los sabores, olores, la música, el paisaje… pero ni quiero ni permito que nada de esto me determine como persona.

No se puede juzgar a los hombres fuera del contexto en que han vivido —respondió el sacerdote—. No hay que acercarse a la historia con los ojos de hoy.

Interpretamos a Dios según nuestra cultura, el medio en que hemos nacido, en el que nos hemos desenvuelto, pero Dios es el mismo, y desde luego lo que es una monstruosidad es matar en nombre de Dios.

Language forces us to perceive the world as man presents it to us.

He sucked his lips in an attempt not to laugh. "Aren't you Spanish?" She raised one arm in a salute. "Viva la Queen Isabella!" "I see. Then why are you speaking with a French accent?

What he needs to do," Angus wheezed, "is travel south to Kintyre, turn back north and cross the Firth of Lorne to Mull so that he can scoot out to Iona, sail up to Skye, cross over to the mainland to Ullapool, back down to Inverness, pay his respects at Culloden, and from there, he can proceed south to Blair Castle, stopping in Grampian if he chooses so he can see how a proper bottle of whisky is made.

Then I hope you won't take offense when I say that proper young ladies really don't go about punching unsavory characters in the nose in London." "Oh, Aunt Caroline, proper young ladies really don't do that sort of thing in Boston, either.

Simon groaned. "Do young ladies still need permission to waltz?

And I don't want to miss the tea when it's still hot. I have never been able to understand why you English wait to drink your tea when it's lukewarm.

dark Africa and take up cannibalism

by afternoon was lost in a sea of Russian idioms. Kogda rak na goryeh svistnyet = When the crawfish whistles on a mountain = When pigs fly. Sdelatz slona iz mukha = Make an elephant out of a fly = Make a mountain out of a molehill. S dokhlogo kozla i shersti klok = Even from the dead goat, even a piece of wool is worth something =

They had that air about them - five hundred years of breeding and a membership to White's.

Colin knew the ton well. He knew how his peers acted. The aristocracy was capable of individual greatness, but collectively they tended to sink to the lowest common denominator.

I knew that all South Indian language films were first made in Chennai and that Tamil Nadu is one of the biggest film-producing centres in the country. I wanted to be part of films here.

I live in New York, so I don't get that many Indian scripts.

I happen to be half West Indian, but I don't know that side of my family.

There have been a bunch of Indian films in English that found an audience.

I hope to work in Indian films again. I would love to.

In London, you can eat your way around the world - Lebanese one night, Indian the next.

Movies are a big part of our Indian culture.

I am an Indian, and I know what India is. I know Indian culture. I know Indian constitution and democracy.