Quotes About Culture

What about you, Ian? Why don't you come too? Can't. I'm Jewish. You are not Jewish! You're Italian. I was thinking of converting.

Our people have become as processed as our food.

He came up and, with a broad Australian accent, said, "G'day, mate." Uh-oh, I thought. I'm in trouble.

Civilization has been thrust upon me . . . and it has not added one whit to my love for truth, honesty, and generosity. —LUTHER STANDING BEAR, OGLALA SIOUX, 1868–1937 On

live in the United States.

In this culture, there is no ego rewards for standing up in public and admitting vulnerability.

If Jesus were on earth today, he'd want to be interviewed by Playboy.

When Brian told me he grew up in New Mexico, I told him I thought it is cool that people from other countries play football. He corrected me on my geography and agreed to sit down with me anyway.

POSH Before air-conditioning, cabins on the side of ocean liners facing the sun became unbearably hot. Thus richer passengers paid a premium to have their tickets on the P&O Line from England to India stamped "Port Out—Starboard Home." So p.o.s.h. became a synonym for someone who was upper class. PULL

The Egyptians treated her like a pharaoh even though she was from a Greek family and a woman. She worshipped the gods of Egypt.

The humanities should constitute the core of any university worth the name.

Being brought up in a culture is a matter of learning appropriate forms of feeling as much as particular ways of thinking.

Someone noted that in this culture we worship our work, play at our worship, and work at our play.

summer of 1967, an ecstatic, Dionysia mini-world sprang up like a mushroom, dividing American culture into a Before and After unparalleled since World War II.27

We would never allow child sacrifice, which is one of the sure manifestations of a totally reprobate civilization. Really?

listened instead to the left-wing, anti-biblical teachings of Dr. Benjamin Spock in the '50s.

Medieval learning was really advanced.

Who I am depends not only on what I believe but on the beliefs embedded in the practices of the various communities to which I belong and in terms of which I define my identity.

Do you think it's possible for an entire nation to be insane?

Man is one name belonging to every nation upon earth. In them all is one soul though many tongues. Every country has its own language, yet the subjects of which the untutored soul speaks are the same everywhere.

There is no public entertainment which does not inflict spiritual damage.

It's a world with its own traditions and lore, some of which are hidden within pianos themselves.

In Britain, you do your job. When you do an American TV show, there is a sense of being one with the crew, and there is a leadership element, which was a learning curve for me because it is very different culturally. In Britain, you just do it, leave and say, 'Thanks.'

History does not merely touch on language, but takes place in it.