Quotes About Culture

In a word I claim that our city as a whole is an education to Greece.

The United States has been called the melting pot of the world. But it seems to me that the colored man either missed getting into the pot or he got melted down.

MAKE AMERICA NEW YORK.

The one big drawback to speaking German is that, by in large, you can only speak it with Germans.

Popular music is a microcosm of the culture, Eliza. It reflects the mentality of the population.

The Lakota unburdened themselves of hair, of fingers, cut into their flesh to temporarily escape the grief of a loved one's death. I saw this on A Man Called Horse and in Dances with Wolves. But as far as I knew, no one in my immediate family had ever done this. My mother was worth far more than a hank of hair. She was worth my spine. My eyes. My womb.

There is a truism in the world of architecture that design creates culture.

bolinhos de bacalhau, the delicious codfish fritters cooked on every street corner. The riot of colour that existed everywhere, from the jungle flowers, to the women's stunning dresses, to the frescoes and stained glass windows of the tiny, baroque Chapel of St Rita, where they now stood. All of it made Gunther Hartog feel young again. Young and alive. 'What if Pierpont got wise?' The worry lines deepened on Jeff Stevens's face. 'What if…?

Japanese addresses typically involve three numbers separated by dashes (e.g., 3-35-31). The first of these is the sub-area where the house or building is located, the second is the block it is on, and the third is the building number. And when these numbers are added together, the sum equals the percentage chance that you are never going to find the building you're looking for.

Do Not Disturb signs should be written in the language of the hotel maids.

a guitar store is the only place in the known universe where a guy will allow himself to shop like a woman

The task is to become church for them, among them and with them, and under Spirit of God to lead them to become church in their own culture.

It is often out encounter with culture that first reveals to us our own culture.

Just as China needs to learn more about the world, so does the world need to learn more about China. I hope you will continue your efforts to deepen mutual understanding between China and the world.

Anubis – A god with a man's body and the head of a dog or jackal.

Gasparilla is Tampa's annual heritage festival, and Tampa's heritage appears to be about alcohol.

Do not disturb!' 'No molestar!'—ever get the idea some things aren't translating right?

the nation's transition from a culture molded by sacrifice and hard work to a bunch of cranky, unobliged brats.

She blew her nose like a British ambulance, and her sob story had more twists than a dragon parade in Chinatown.

the residents had yet to acquire an appreciation for a South American midget screaming Spanish profanities like Frankie Valli and sucker-punching a fat woman into submission between the jacarandas.

This is what I keep trying to tell you," said Serge. "If you're going to live in this country, you need to speak the language.

You never stop being Catholic. It's like the Mafia or Amway.

My problem is with the warped value system our culture has. Why is it that if you knife a woman in a movie it's PG, but if you swear at her it's rated R and if you make love to her it's rated X?

Borrowing from cultures without understanding the fundamentals can yield some pretty weird and wholly illogical perversions.