Quotes About Culture

Culture is something you cannot buy, something you cannot import, something you cannot learn or produce at will. A writer, an artist or musician cannot sit down and say 'Now I will produce culture.' Culture is something that evolves out of the simple, enduring elements of everyday life; elements most truthfully expressed in the folk arts and crafts of a nation.

The first book of the nation is the dictionary of its language.

The true university of these days is a collection of books.

I keep my books at the British Museum and at Mudies.

All the known world, excepting only savage nations, is governed by books.

Then here's to the City of Boston, The town of the cries and the groans, Where the Cabots can't see the Kabotschniks, And the Lowells won't speak to the Cohns.

Canada is not so much a country as a clothesline nearly 4,000 miles long. St John's in Newfoundland is closer to Milan, Italy than to Vancouver.

No one is the worse for knowing two languages.

To me it's very obvious there are huge cultural differences between Americans and Canadians. But a lot of what we are is American.

Americans like to make money: Canadians like to audit it. I know no country where accountants have a higher social and moral status.

Canada is a good country to be from. It has a gentler, slower pace - it lends perspective.

We are being swallowed up by the popular culture of the United States, but then the Americans are being swallowed up by it too. It's just as much a threat to American culture as it is to ours.

Canada is a society, rather than a nation.

Canada reminds me of vichyssoise - it's cold, half-French and difficult to stir.

When I stand on a street in a Canadian city and look across the street, it couldn't be anywhere but Canada, but how can I prove it?

Canada is a live country - live, but not, like the States, kicking.

My father spoke French with a Bank of Montreal accent.

Indian saying in Saskatchewan

Actually, when it comes to knocking the Canadian cultural scene, nobody outdoes Canadians, myself included. We are veritable masters of self-deprecation.

Canadians are generally indistinguishable from Americans, and the surest way of telling the two apart is to make the observation to a Canadian.

A Torontonian is a man who leaves culture to his wife.

TheSc ots are the backbone of Canada. They are all right in their three vital parts - head, heart and haggis.

If we can find out why the idea rather than the nation of Canada can win a growing loyalty rather than commanding it, then, it seems to me, we shall have come very near to trapping the elusive creature, the Canadian Identity.

The Ottawa river flows out of Protestant Ontario into Catholic Quebec.