Quotes About Culture

Culture is the tacit agreement to let the means of subsistence disappear behind the purpose of existence.

When the sun of culture is low, even dwarves will cast long shadows

Quando il sole della cultura è basso, anche i nani hanno l'aspetto di giganti.

Music is part of the life of fashion, too.

I never had to learn English, French and German because I was brought up as all three languages. I had a private French teacher before I even went to school. That helped a lot.

Beauty is also submitted to the taste of time, so a beautiful woman from the Belle Epoch is not exactly the perfect beauty of today, so beauty is something that changes with time.

There are less than 1 per cent of anorexic girls, but there more than 30 per cent of girls in France - I don't know about England - that are much, much overweight. And it is much more dangerous and very bad for the health.

Her age was one of the reasons she always got away with it. In Africa elderly people still command respect.

Art is always and everywhere the secret confession, and at the same time the immortal movement of its time.

Caramba, seht ihr herabgekommen aus, Señores!

We can all participate in the heritage of man. We all can help to preserve it. And we can all make our own modest contribution to it. We must not as for more.

La vera ignoranza non è la manca di cultura, ma il rifiuto di acquisirla.

Most of us, it seems, have a strong inclination to accept the peculiarities of our social environment as if they were 'natural'.

Well, marriage is a very important part of our culture and our society. If we want to have a hopeful and decent society, we ought to aim for the ideal.

An ancient sage held that in different ages, humans held the senses in different ratios, according to the media by which they communicated and expressed themselves. Hence before writing, the ear was the royal sense. After writing, the eye.

I didn't go to the funeral of poetry. I stayed home and watched it on television.

I have often thought that the Germans make the best Americans, though they certainly make the worst Germans.

First, we must rediscover our kitchens. Never has a culture spent more to remodel and techno-glitz its kitchens, but at the same time been more lost as to where the kitchen is and what it's for.

I loved everything about Spain - the people, the language, and the food!

I'm learning Spanish - I got Rosetta Stone for Christmas.

I think Australian food is probably some of the best in the world.

My name is Sahil," he says as he looks up. "Someone told me it means leader.

By the time writing was invented, the Greeks and Egyptians had already learned to extract opium from poppies to facilitate sleep.

The cult of the individual is killing us. I think Twitter signals the death of western civilisation, but people have been saying that since Demosthenes.