Quotes About Culture

I'm not as innocent as you might think. I'm very well read.

Romany Gypsies—the Rom, they call themselves—are a nomadic people. They dislike staying under one roof too long. It makes them feel imprisoned

You let him touch you," Todd observed idly. My eyes widened. "I do not." "Yes you do. Just little touches here and there. He puts his hand on your arm or back, he stands close to you, getting you used to him . . . it's a mating ritual. Like March of the Penguins." "It has nothing to do with mating rituals. It's a Texas thing. People are touchy-feely here.

I think we were raised in a nice Texas Jewish family where education was the most important thing, and close behind that was the arts. It was emphasized and expected that we'd play piano.

it may be very clear indeed who "owns" culture. It is pronounced in the official language all must learn to speak, is declared if you can't afford to buy the garments that you are employed to sew, and is evident if your call to 911 fails to bring emergency assistance to your neighborhood.

aesthetic representation is not an analogue for the material positions, means, or resources of those populations.

I stood in the horizontal and vertical cultures of words like a bar in a graph.

Although I doubt He [Jesus] said "believeth" as He was Jewish and not a fancy-pants English fellow.

It used to happen in villages and towns in China that they would have - I guess you'd call them beauty contests - where all of the women of a particular village or town would be seated behind these screens or curtains with only their feet showing.

He knew what he did because all Venetians knew it.

Only one sort of man is worse than an Italian when it comes to their appetite for women." "Oh? And what is that?" "A Frenchmen.

Our stories are powerful. They teach, they speak, they inspire. They bring about change. But they are also fragile. Their threads are so easily broken by time, by lack of interest, by failure to understand the value that comes of knowing where we have been and who we have been. In this speed-of-light culture, our histories are fading more quickly than ever. Yet when we lose our stories, we lose ourselves. . . .

I was raised that way too.

Names have power. In certain cultures, just speaking a man's name gives you mastery over him.

Civilization culminates in the power-press. It is the grand total of the difference between a boastful United Statian and a beastly Hottentot, —between Yankee Doodle and Timbucktoodle

Romantic music really stirs my soul. And, of course, I love Chinese music it makes me feel closer to home.

There are many current examples that show quite powerfully that higher education does play quite a significant role in building national identity and supporting its assertion.

Deceivingly, Miss Neville, the word vodka means 'little water.' The Russians are masters of the understatement." - Lord Nash

In those days men were the ones who usually conferred blessings. Yet here we have a woman proclaiming a blessing upon another woman. Wow. Even from the womb, Jesus was changing the culture.

People are always glad when you address them in their own language, I have found, even though your knowledge may not extend further than what you have memorised from a dictionary or phrase book.

If aw his hums and haws were hams and haggises, the country wad be weel fed!

ginger would have been far more widely used.

The general drink was ale. Most households of any size made their own, every few days. The advantage of adding hops was that it produced a longer-lasting brew, but that was still in the future.

Portuguese cake-making