Quotes About Culture

A place ain't a place without a bookstore.

Má»™t nÆ¡i tá»­ t? sao có th? thi?u ti?m sách ???c ch?, Izzie.

A place ain't a place without a bookstore

The modern Westerner, persuaded that he has a right to "think for himself" and imagining that he exercises this right, is unwilling to acknowledge that his every thought has been shaped by cultural and historical influences and that his opinions fit, like pieces of jigsaw puzzle, into a pattern which has nothing random about it.

No one in this place seemed uncomfortable at the emotions of strangers. We had entered a subterranean culture of extremis, where people were dying or trying to live and the heart was laid bare.

Domingo, ese día en que haces todas esas cosas culturales en medio de la nieve mientras la gente casada se queda en la cama. Todas esas cosas culturales que enriquecen tu mente y al mismo tiempo te destrozan la vida porque ya nunca serás capaz de casarte con alguien que no sea de Nueva York.

Quieres saber por qué me sentí mal en realidad? En Nueva York el aborto no es ningún tabú, forma parte de la cultura, y aun así la ley del aborto no se aprobó hasta que fue demasiado tarde para cientos de chicas que los necesitaban al mismo tiempo que yo. ¿No podían haberla aprobado con carácter retroactivo y habernos enviado una disculpa escrita?

THE SHOULDS ARE defined by the family destiny, the press of the culture, and/or the prejudices of our peers.

What is disassembling is that narrow self we have thus far put together in a form tailored to please the culture and other people.

There's not a single chef I know of that does not think about the politics of the food they're serving.

Like baseball, food will never go out of style we will always need to eat and we will always find it entertaining. I think of food TV this way - all the fun and none of the calories.

Civilization begins with soap.

La culture n'est pas un luxe, c'est une nécessité

She suspected that civilization had been invented to make more stories. And

We inculcate in our children the sensibilities of raccoons, a fascination with shiny objects and an appetite for garbage, and then carp about 'the texting generation' as if thirteen- and fourteen-year-olds who couldn't boil an egg are capable of creating a culture. They grow on what we feed them. It has never been otherwise. The only thing that changes is the food.

So beer is our bread?

If God came to India, he'd have to come as bread. If God came to Willoughby union he'd have to came as what?

Qi is that intangible energy that animates the human body and all things in this Universe. Richard Lee, founder of the China Healthways Institute, refers to it as "bioelectric-vitality," while others call it "life force." Western languages don't even have a word to translate the Chinese "Qi" character. This points to a vast difference in the way people of these two cultures view the world.

I think Russian people are learning that democracy is not an alien thing it's not a western invention.

America: the only country in the world where failing to promote yourself is regarded as being arrogant.

Let me tell you this: The Weather Channel is not about weather; it is about the world !

There is something wrong with our culture when the view that marriage is between one man and one woman, a view shared by half the nation, is portrayed as evidence of hatred.

All the culture war issues will be settled by the court.

Catholics and evangelicals need to remain allied, and in solidarity, against the increasingly aggressive secularism of our age.