Quotes About Culture

it is a lack of values within us, and not just a few bad guys at the top, that has turned India corrupt.

language, the second hindrance is the attitude. There are two attitudes— first, the

Blood is thicker than water. Or lassi. Or whatever.

our politicians are not ethical because we aren't ethical.

Tax evasion, dubious accounting and shady friendships are almost seen as natural behaviour for an Indian businessman. We don't see them as crimes.

Some experts even say the idea of India is wrong;

considering this is a country where in-laws burn brides, they did seem like nice people. More

Gujarat is the only state in India where people tend to respect you more if you have a business than if you are in service.

After all these years, it's still embarrassing for me to play on the American golf tour. Like the time I asked my caddie for a sand wedge and he came back ten minutes later with a ham on rye.

I think the biggest difficulty is that when I'm here in America, there's a necessity of using English, so I really have a great sense of really wanting to learn, but unfortunately when I head back to Japan, the necessity vanishes and so does my enthusiasm about learning.

In China our professional artists or craftsman used to carve large pieces of white ivory into models of famous buildings, such as the Peking Palace or the Temple of Heaven, with streets and people to the minutest detail. I have been fortunate enough to see a few of theses, and the snow-covered Oxford High, with its yellow stone, resembled one of these exquisite ivory carvings, yellowed with age. I was happy to have discovered such affinity between Oxford and Ancient China.

Junk mail, junk food, our society is full of junk living, period.

I must study Politicks and War that my sons may have liberty to study Mathematicks and Philosophy. My sons ought to study Mathematicks and Philosophy, Geography, natural History, Naval Architecture, navigation, Commerce and Agriculture, in order to give their Children a right to study Painting, Poetry, Musick, Architecture, Statuary, Tapestry and Porcelaine.

Each year on January 16th, International Hot and Spicy Food Day celebrates all the delicious hot and spicy foods around the world... Try a spicy dish that you have never eaten before, or make a recipe with a spice you've never used.

For the story — from Rumpelstiltskin to War and Peace — is one of the basic tools invented by the mind of man, for the purpose of gaining understanding. There have been great societies that did not use the wheel, but there have been no societies that did not tell stories.

Those who tell the stories rule the world.

Tea began as a medicine and grew into a beverage.

In vino Veritas. In Aqua satietas. In... What is the Latin for Tea? What! Is there no Latin word for Tea? Upon my soul, if I had known that I would have let the vulgar stuff alone.

Every time I drink hot tea I suddenly feel very sophisticated and I subconsciously begin to gravitate toward a British accent.

Tea is the symbol of and antidote to civilization.

If man has no tea in him, he is incapable of understanding truth and beauty.

Use of advanced messaging technology does not imply an endorsement of western industrial civilization.

The publishers and others should quit worrying about losing customers to TV. The guy who can sit through a trio of deodorant commercials to look at Flashgun Casey or swallow a flock of beer and loan-shark spiels in order to watch a couple of fourth-rate club fighters rub noses on the ropes is not losing any time from book reading.

Skin does not equal sin.