Quotes About Culture

And now I also see what part of me is Chinese. It is so obvious. It is my family. It is in our blood.

For a comedian to kind of catch onto something right as something's catching on in our culture, a lot of it is luck, and you hope the joke is funny.

Our way of life, our government defines the way America is. I mean, it's not luck.

In India it is regarded as a good idea to dart in front of an oncoming car, for the car is sure to kill the evil spirits who are pursuing you, and all the rest of your life you will have good luck.

My older sister was at the cusp of new wave, and I had older brothers from my father's first marriage who were rock 'n' roll guys, so I was exposed to a lot of popular culture.

Marriage has got historic, religious and moral content that goes back to the beginning of time and I think a marriage is as a marriage has always been, between a man and a woman.

Culture is like the current of the ocean. Where has it taken your marriage?

The sum and substance of female education in America, as in England, is training women to consider marriage as the sole object in life, and to pretend that they do not think so.

The confusing of marriage with morality has done more to destroy the conscience of the human race than any other single error.

Two things I do value a lot, intimacy and the capacity for joy, didn't seem to be on anyone else s list. I felt like the stranger in a strange land, and decided I'd better not marry the natives.

There's never been a civilization, ever in history, that has embraced homosexuality and turned away from traditional fidelity and traditional marriage, traditional child rearing, and has survived.

I am fairly classless because it is very difficult to class someone who comes from a mixed marriage.

Each marriage bears the footprints of economic and cultural trends which originate far outside marriage.

The Apache don't have a word for love," he said. "Know what they both say at the marriage? The squaw-taking ceremony?" "Tell me." "Varlebena. It means forever. That's all they say.

There is a vast difference between the savage and the civilized man, but it is never apparent to their wives until after breakfast.

As many as half of Ethiopias girls become wives before becoming adults. But Ethiopia is also a place where lasting solutions to child marriage are starting to make a difference.

It is obvious that all sense has gone out of modern marriage; which is, however, no objection to marriage but to modernity.

Garth, marriage is punishment for shoplifting in some countries!

If traditional marriage is not the law of the land, the institution of the family will cease to exist.

Early marriage is most prevalent in communities suffering deep, chronic poverty.

Marriage - as well as erotic friendships and sexual liaisons -between members of contrasting races and religions will take place with greater frequency, and will be more accepted than it is today.

Marriage still means a lot more in the country I come from than it does here. I don't think there's anything to be gained by it for the couple. But for children I think it's an important thing.

Daughters-in-law lived with their husbands' parents, not their own; a synonym for marriage in Chinese is "taking a daughter-in-law.

We have a marriage of people of various cultures coming together. It's not a joke. It's real.