Quotes About Culture

The three great elements of modern civilization, Gun powder, Printing, and the Protestant religion.

France was long a despotism tempered by epigrams.

In books lies the soul fo the whole past time.

A Dandy is a clothes-wearing Man, a Man whose trade, office and existence consists in the wearing of clothes.

Keine zauberwirkende Rune ist wunderbarer als ein Buch. Bücher sind das auserlesene Besitztum der Menschen.

All that Mankind has done, thought, gained or been is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of Books. They are the chosen possession of men.

Of all the things which man can do or make here below, by far the most momentous, wonderful, and worthy are the things we call books.

Ceea ce devenim depinde in mare masura de ce citim.

Al wat de mensheid heeft gedaan, gedacht, gewonnen, of is geweest, dat ligt als door toverkunst vastgelegd in boeken.

The true University of these days is a Collection of Books.

The happiness of every country depends upon the character of its people, rather than the form of its government.

It is an ancient land, honoured in the archives of civilisation. Every great European race has sent its stream to the river of the Irish mind.

For the first time in twenty-five years there was no Person of Color on the Board of Estimate, whatever traditional roles they'd had in City government erased. Squeezed by growing immigration, the breakdown of old political networks, a changing economy and soon, waves of drugs, crime, and disease, New York's African Americans would be forced over the next thirty-five years into new cultural and social strategies that would in turn change the world.

As early as June of 1981, Brighton Beach was known as Little Odessa, with a quarter of its businesses owned by Soviet Jews.

New York, to Whyte, needed to produce more than just money; it needed to produce social capital. Even as New York careened, he celebrated its street life—"Characters are flourishing," he wrote. "It is the work of a great city to be tolerant of them, and New York is.

Most of all, he would have been alienated by America's determined, self-centered individualism

I grew up in an isolated town, out in the middle of the Mojave Desert in the middle of a naval base. My family was one of the only South Asian families in this town. We felt it. We knew.

I've been to so many parties in England and in America that's exactly like that, where you're kind of, like, seen as Other. When you're just living your life, and you have to adopt the Other in order to understand and navigate the society.

Japanese culture is something I'm heavily inspired by. I was actually stationed for a few years in Japan with the Navy and I fell in love with a lot of that culture, especially when it comes to fashion and art.

In the Navy, you're around a lot of people from different parts of the country. They've got different accents, different upbringings. I learned to love country-western music.

My grandmother's mother was from near Naples, so I love Italy, but I feel completely Argentinian.

As a mother, I don't want any girl twerking near my kid at a bat mitzvah.

I like Ireland because it means I'm near France.

Indian-styled garments are very popular in the U.S., especially in areas near the beach, like Hawaii and Los Angeles.