Quotes About Culture

Come on, it's an American tradition. Apple soup? Mom's homemade chicken pie?' She chuckled in spite of herself, then winced. 'It's apple pie and Mom's homemade chicken soup. But you didn't do badly, for a start.

Nothing is ever a lady's fault. - The Go-Between by L. P. Hartley

A culture is only as great as its dreams, and its dreams are dreamed by artists.

It went on like that till some guys got together and came up with the one-god thing—him being God, the Father, and male and all that—and things went downhill for girls ever after that, far as I can figure. It was always, 'Get in your dress, girl, your smock, your shift or your burnoose or your veil, but whatever it is, girl, put it on and shut the hell up,' is how I see it.

El pasado es un país extraño; allí hacen las cosas de manera muy diferente a como las hacemos aquí

Courtly manners are contagious; they are caught at Versailles.

The character of a man's native country is as strongly impressed on his mind as its accent is on his tongue.

Ils ont treize noms pour nommer le palmier, et le palmier n'est pas nommé.

In Vietnamese, the word for water and the word for a nation, a country, and a homeland are one and the same: nu'ó'c.

Pop music will never be low brow.

I wanted to be a skinny little ballerina but I was a voluptuous little Italian girl whose dad had meatballs on the table every night.

Where I come from it was really unheard of to be at a party and someone says, 'What kind of music do you make?', and you say, 'Pop music.' You may as well have 'I'm not cool' stamped on your forehead.

The vulgar Turk is very different from what is spoken at court, 'tis as ridiculous to make use of the expressions commonly used in speaking to a great man or lady, as it would be to talk broad Yorkshire or Somershetshire in the drawing room.

Outer space is no place for a person of breeding.

Of course, the simple explanation of the fact is that marriage is the most important act of man's life in Europe or America, and that everything depends upon it.

It is true that short forms of poetry have been cultivated in the Far East more than in modern Europe but in all European literature short forms of poetry are to be found - indeed quite as short as anything in Japanese.

Is woman a religion? Well, perhaps you will have the chance of judging for yourselves if you go to America. There you will find men treating women with just the same respect formerly accorded only to religious dignitaries or to great nobles.

I often imagine that the longer he studies English literature the more the Japanese student must be astonished at the extraordinary predominance given to the passion of love both in fiction and in poetry.

The Russian people have had literary spokesmen who for more than a generation have fascinated the European audience. The Japanese, on the other hand, have possessed no such national and universally recognized figures as Turgenieff or Tolstoy. They need an interpreter. It

JAPAN AN ATTEMPT AT INTERPRETATION BY LAFCADIO HEARN

Well dressed to-day; only a langouti tomorrow. --Mauritius proverb

upon the civilization of the world. The best one can do is to estimate, as intelligently as possible, the national characteristics of the peoples engaged

I'm German in my mind, but from a Germany that doesn't exist anymore.

As a rule, models are unfamiliar with what the word eating means to most people.