Quotes About Culture

I love the Swedish people for their detective novels, their archipelago, their sense of humor, their carbonated vodka, and most especially, for their wonderful hospitality.

I love Japan. I love the collision of the modern and ancient worlds coming together in that place. It's so high-tech and cool.

I want to explore the world properly, to be able to write about and take pictures of all kinds of different cultures. Just be an explorer or adventurer. I also love extreme sports.

I am Jewish, but I love Christmas, as most Jews with any taste do, because Hanukkah is lame.

I love the food in Thailand because of the exotic spices they use. Their style of cooking is unique to their culture and always amazing.

Wherever I go, I am Italian. The way I talk, the way I eat, the way femininity is important to me. The way I love Italian food.

I love France. It's got the sun down at the bottom, the Alps for skiing, and all that wine and food.

I love dive bars, old movie theaters, live music and good food. The simplest things in life for me are the most important.

I travel like a maniac. I travel more than anyone I know. I love learning the languages.

I love anywhere new and different. That's the fun of travel. I've always loved driving through Spain, France and Italy - sometimes in an Alfa Spider.

I love America. It's such a positive country.

Ever since studying in Russia as a college student, I had been in a long-distance, one-sided love affair with Chechnya's remarkable history, culture and rugged natural beauty.

My mom, she's a great cook. You know, pirogue, borscht. I love borscht, and I love Pilemeni, meat dumplings.

I'm too young to have kids, but I really want to be a mom. I don't know if it's a Latin thing, but I love kids.

I love eating at my dad's pub, the Queens Arms in Kilburn. It does a traditional Albanian spinach pie.

There are thousands of languages around the world, but love is the most beautiful of them all.

Falling in love is like learning a whole new language and the culture that goes along with it. When you fall out of love it can be hard to pick up where you left off and start a new.

It's the geek who gets the girl, not the jock.

Our society needs to restablish a culture of swag.

He was probably the only number one son in Kahana putting up such a fight, but you couldn't tell because every family was a walled city, and you never knew unless you were inside. And if you were on the inside, you never talked stink about the family, but kept up the family's face.

I am afraid that the traditional culture of Gion Kobu and the other karyukai will cease to exist in the near future. The thought that little will remain of the glorious tradition beyond its external forms fills me with sorrow.

This is why the whole notion of "geisha houses" being dens of ill repute is so ridiculous. Men are barely allowed inside these bastions of feminine society, let alone permitted to frolic with the inhabitants after they arrive.

Auntie Oima told me that the reason our hair ornaments have pointed ends is so that we can use them to defend our customers from attack.

En Gion Kobu no nos referimos a nosotras mismas como geishas (que significa artistas), sino que usamos un término más específico: geiko o mujer del arte. Una clase de geiko, famosa en el mundo entero como símbolo de Kioto, es la joven bailarina conocida como maiko o mujer de la danza.