Quotes About Culture

Clearly, then, the city is not a concrete jungle, it is a human zoo.

Today's children are taught by our culture that we are a cosmic accident. Something slithered out of the primal slime and over billions of years evolved into a human being. We are cousins, ten times removed, to the ape at the zoo eating his own excrement.

Thanks partly to the kind of poets that we now have and partly to funding, there's been a gigantic shift in the way poetry is perceived... Poems on the Underground, poets in schools, football clubs, zoos.

Even if you can't afford to travel the world, you can take your children to the museum, zoo or local park. And don't be afraid to take them to grown-up spots. Eating out in a restaurant teaches children how to be quiet and polite and gives them the pleasure of knowing you trust them to behave.

A good drama critic is one who perceives what is happening in the theatre of his time. A great drama critic also perceives what is not happening.

Very few people go to the doctor when they have a cold, they go to the theatre instead.

Long experience has taught me that in England nobody goes to the theatre unless he or she has bronchitis.

If ever there was an aviary overstocked with jays it is that Yaptown-on-the-Hudson called New York.

Thou, oh my country, hast thy foolish ways, Too apt to purr at every stranger's praise.

Whoever wants to know the hearts and minds of America had better learn baseball.

The true America is the Middle West, and Columbus discovered nothing at all except another Europe.

A natural New Yorker is a native of the present tense.

New York, the nation's thyroid gland.

A town that has no ceiling price, A town of double-talk; A town so big men name her twice, Like so: 'N'Yawk, N'Yawk.'

A Bostonian - an American, broadly speaking.

America and its demons, Europe and its ghosts.

Some Americans need hyphens in their names, because only part of them has come over; but when the whole man has come over, heart and thought and all, the hyphen drops of its own weight out of his name.

The artist has a special task and duty; the task of reminding men of their humanity and the promise of their creativity.

If you can walk, you can dance. Zimbabwe saying Music is well said to be the speech of angels.

I saw the bathroom fixtures as a kind of American Trinity.

Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space.

Society needs a good image of itself. That is the job of the architect.

How can we expect our students to become bold and fearless in thought and action if we encase them in sentimental shrines feigning a culture which has long since disappeared?

I think there is no work of art which represents the spirit of a nation more surely than "Die Meister Singer" of Richard Wagner. Here is no plaything with local colour, but the raising to its highest power all that is best in the national consciousness of his country.