Quotes About Culture

shattered for all time a complex of fundamental articles of our cultural faith: that the world was capable of repairing any damage we might do to it;

a lifestyle for creatures capable of poetry, philosophy, music, dance, mythology, art, and invention on a wide technological front.

For Ming Kai's nose—which, like so many Chinese organs, was advanced beyond the reckoning of his Caucasian brother—

A singular cartographic combatant led the charge—Bai Meichu, one of China's most influential and respected geographers.

Man is what he reads.

The right to a quality education is, I believe, the perfect path to bridge the gap between different cultures and to reconcile various civilizations. Without such a right, the values of liberty, justice and equality will have no meaning. Ignorance is by far the biggest danger and threat to humankind.

You get educated by traveling.

I guess, like most foreigners, when you're away, you see your own culture being even more strange. But where I come from and my roots mean a lot. I miss my family and my friends. Something I've realized as I've been traveling is that it's more about the actual people than the actual place.

Mommy, do you know what the Italian Renaissance is? It's naked people.

I've been in different countries, and a girl will come up and say, 'I love you. We are going to get married someday!' And I'm like, 'You're 11!'

I have always been intrigued by other cultures, and traveling to foreign lands has always been a part of my personal passion for learning about our world.

Love is just a word that we've chosen to use to describe something that we can't fully explain. I mean, it's like, as a culture, we've just all agreed on using the term, but I think people get so caught up in the word that they don't allow themselves the privilege to live out what it actually might be.

This is almost the most famous story The last samurai – Samurai story – in Japan.

Poetry is the elder sister of history, the mother of language, the ancestress of civilization.

Once you get over the culture shock, Filey is a pleasant spot, particularly at the beginning or end of the summer, when the hotels are half full. The brave go in winter, when the wind can be bitter and biting and Filey resumes its real life as a tiny, introverted fishing community.

I remember debating the finer points of flaky pastry with my chicken-pot-pie-obsessed American dad. I remember the divine mix of Thai food, TV dinners, and hearty, homemade goodness that have shaped this palate of mine to this day. I remember all this, but I still Google my husband's birthday. Thank God he's famous.

In a weird way, fashion, which is frivolous to the core, shouldn't be taken seriously, but thank God people do: it makes for great people-watching.

This...is an age of specialization, and in such an age the repertory theater is an anachronism, a ludicrous anachronism.

Architecture is the will of the age conceived in spatial terms.

We are living in a cultural dark age of musical pollution. You put the radio on, and five minutes later you need an aspirin.

Our shouting is louder than our actions, Our swords are taller than us, This is our tragedy. In short We wear the cape of civilisation But our souls live in the stone age

Every age has its temptations, its weaknesses, its dangers. Ours is in the line of the snobbish and the sordid.

I remember being a student and I would go every Friday to the Louvre and stay for ages, just walking around.

(Wine is) the nurse of old age.