Quotes About Culture

Used to be, only bikers and outlaws had tattoos. They were so commonplace now that they weren't even a statement. Unless the statement was, "Look, I'm like everybody else." Her

the Brits were constantly complaining about America, even as they greedily consumed American products and culture—and said that the public outpouring of grief over Diana's death had forever altered the way that his people could acceptably respond to tragedy.

Your mother asked about his family, because we are southern and asking about someone's family is the only way we can distinguish the chaff from the wheat.

Then again, he was born in the South, where babies drank Scripture with their mother's milk. "I

Moon was from somewhere up east, the kind of place where consonants took on a life of their own.

Fashion and music are the same, because music express its period too.

That culture, the loss of which he laments, is, for the enormous majority, a mere training to act as a machine.

Die Geschichte ist die wahre Naturgeschichte des Menschen.

Para cultivarse espiritualmente con mayor libertad, un pueblo necesita estar exento de la esclavitud de sus propias necesidades corporales, no ser ya siervo del cuerpo.

Tek tek uluslar?n düÅŸünsel yarat?lar? hepsinin ortak mal? olmaktad?r. Ulusal tek yanl?l?k ve dar kafal?l?k her geçen gün biraz daha olanaks?zlaÅŸmakta, çok say?da ulusal ve yerel edebiyattan bir dünya edebiyat? doÄŸmaktad?r.

Research shows that arranged marriages last longer, and I wonder if it's down to the fact that it's other people putting you together, like when a family member buys you a gift it's not easy to throw it away, as there's a chance they'll come to visit and ask where it is and get upset when you say you've binned it.

I'd heard street food was a big thing here in Mexico but I didn't think it meant the creatures that lived on the street.

People say Americans like coming to England to see the old stuff 'cos they haven't got any old things in their own country, but they would if they stopped crushing it or blowing shit up.

Vanuatu has over 100 languages in use among the 230,000 population. I don't know how a place can run like this. Surely a lot of people have to speak a certain language for it to qualify as one.

Ta?u, ja atmetam dzeju, reli?ija ir mor?lais kodekss, kas tiek izpausts caur le?end?m, m?tiem un vis?da veida liter?riem sacer?jumiem ar m?r?i izveidot tic?jumu, v?rt?bu un normu sist?mu,ar kuras pal?dz?bu regul?t k?du kult?ru vai sabiedr?bu.

the less we fear that foreigners are going to kill us, the less we're interested in them'.

Je suis désolé ,' he said. You had to wonder about the French, how they could make a simple 'sorry' sound so extreme and forlorn.

He wondered what a visitor from the past would make of it. It used to be the poor who were thin and the rich who were fat, now it seemed to be the other way round.

A young man is embarrassed to question an older one.

In those days, man, in the '50s, black people in the South... We didn't recognize contracts that much. And we didn't recognize marriages that much, either.

Christian minds have been conformed to the modern spirit: the spirit, that is, that spawns great thoughts of man and leaves room for only small thoughts of God.

Elite athletes learn entitlement. They believe they are entitled to have women serve their needs. It's part of being a man. It's the cultural construction of masculinity.

That series of inventions by which man from age to age has remade his environment is a different kind of evolution -- not biological, but cultural evolution . . . "The Ascent of Man.

In its amplest meaning History includes every trace and vestige of everything that man has done or thought since first he appeared on the earth.