Quotes About Culture

The receptionist was a petite Asian woman of forty who spoke English so precisely that Tuck knew it had to be her second language.

mitzvahs, niños en JC Penney's o lo que fuera, pero en tierra firme. Al otro lado del canal

la Ruta de la Seda, que no estaba hecha de seda y que, en realidad, no era sino un sendero estrecho que se abría paso a través de un paisaje desértico, inhóspito y elevado que corresponde a lo que hoy es Siria, y se dirigía a un paisaje desértico, inhóspito y bajo que corresponde a lo que hoy es Irak.

Are not all religions strange to those who stand outside of them?

artifacts of her race that made him cringe

A nation whose civilization is rooted in Christianity will therefore always be at pains to preserve Christianity as the basis of its civilization and to discourage foreign elements in its cultural life. So long as the Jews fail to appreciate this fact they will come up against difficulties.…

I loved idiot paintings, tops of doors, decors, saltimbanques, canvases, signboards, popular engravings, obsolete literature, church Latin, badly-spelled pornographic works, novels by our grandmothers, fairy tales, little children's books, old operas, folk refrains, popular rhythms. —Rimbaud, "A Season in Hell

Unlike England, where a home health aide nips over every day during the first fortnight and several times a week for the next two months, many new parents in America don't have anyone around to guide them through the early days.

We can spend sixty-eight thousand dollars per TB patient in New York City, but if you start giving watches or radios here [Haiti], suddenly the international health community jumps on you for creating 'nonsustainable' projects. If a patient says, I really need a Bible or nail clippers, well, for God's sake!

CEOs, on average, have the lowest EQ scores in the workplace.

American executives averaged 15 points lower than Chinese executives in self-management and relationship management.

Thus, when we read Genesis we are reading an ancient document and should begin by using only the assumptions that would be appropriate for the ancient world. We must understand how the ancients thought and what ideas underlay their communication

But I was a polite kid, so I went. Even the wildest and toughest of us kids, several of whom ended up in prison and one on death row, would be accounted polite by today's standards.

No one really likes Switzerland, except those who prefer cleanliness to life.

Once there was a time when more girls than boys read comics, a time when comics for girls sold in the millions, outnumbering every other kind of comic book. And it all started with Archie .

The truth is, many people do not consciously choose monogamy; society chooses it for them, and it becomes the default.

I'd love to see what the women wear, then." "You wouldn't believe what your eyes were seeing – and don't ask me to describe it. I'd have to learn a whole new vocabulary first.

Chari gave him a lofty look. "You really don't know? I've always wondered how it was that men in the rest of the world are in charge, when they're so perpetually thick." He snorted softly. "And I'm curious to know how Traitor women stay in charge when they're just as inclined to communicate by indirect hints and innuendo as women everywhere else.

All magic can be abused. All power can be abused. The Traitors are proof that a culture that does embrace higher magic doesn't necessarily turn into Sachaka – the Ashaki kind of Sachaka, that is." - Lorkin

She thinks she is white,' they used to sneer, and that was as bad as a curse.

The general intellectual level of South Florida is somewhere just above functionally retarded.

Prior to the rebellion the great mass of the people were satisfied to remain near the scenes of their birth. In fact an immense majority of the whole people did not feel secure against coming to want should they move among entire strangers. So much was the country divided into small communities that localized idioms had grown up, so that you could almost tell what section a person was from by hearing him speak.

Translation is the art of failure.

Chi non legge, a 70 anni avrà vissuto una sola vita: la propria. Chi legge avrà vissuto 5000 anni: c'era quando Caino uccise Abele, quando Renzo sposò Lucia, quando Leopardi ammirava l'infinito… perché la lettura è una immortalità all'indietro.