Quotes About Culture

If children are not introduced to music at an early age, I believe something fundamental is actually being taken from them.

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He must be aged to have good manners. Modern young men have to be angry, and that means plain rude.

so many languages have fallen off the edge of the world

The literature of America should reflect the children of America.

Yo he aprendido más de mi tierra yendo a los indios ranqueles, que en diez años de despestañarme, leyendo opúsculos, folletos, gacetillas, revistas y libros especiales.

The next step was the use of huts and skins and fire, And women became the property of one man. So the chaste pleasures of a private Venus Were first invented and couples had their own children. It was then that the human race began to soften.

The whole world organizes itself around the fact that people manage to get their awkward bodies in position to fuck, an achievement honored by toasters, tandems, and tax cuts.

the fact that a police officer on TV said what used to be a fist fight or road rage is now a shooting, and what used to be a domestic dispute is now a gun rampage, and what used to be a tardy or disruptive student is now a school shooter, the fact that the police aren't much better themselves, the fact that what used to be an arrest or a warning is now a split-second execution

the fact that now it's Philip Glass on the radio, the fact that I wonder how many people in Ohio care about Philip Glass,

Italians answer the phone, "Pronto," the fact that Mommy never knew what to say when they said that, the fact that she struggled with Italian during that year in Rome, poor duck.

Ming Dynasty porcelain, Mao jackets, cheap toys and electrical goods, everything, though not pot-stickers, or crispy duck and pancakes and sweet and sour pork and fortune cookies, the fact that she never ate her fortune cookie though, just opened it to see her fortune.

it is possible that the Irish word for 'I play the fox', sionnachuighim, is where the word 'shenanigans' comes from.

A great many contemporary artists from hugely diverse backgrounds are currently approaching the prospect of cultural mixing...

Food is central to travelling and is a vivid entryway into another culture, but we do not have to literally leave home to "travel". Movies, books, postcards, memories all take us, emotionally if not physically, to other places.

The basis of tourism is perception of otherness, of something being different from the usual.

Popular music creates most impact in the telling of stories.

I've always had an affinity and a passion for cars and that whole car culture.

In place of [the classic spirit] … entered with Christianity the principle of unlimited, extravagant, fanatical, supranaturalistic subjectivity; a principle intrinsically opposed to that of science, of culture. With Christianity man lost the capability of conceiving himself as a part of Nature.

The course of religious development … consists … in … that man abstracts more and more from God, and attributes more and more to himself. … That which to a later age or a cultured people is given by nature or reason, is to an earlier age, or to a yet uncultured people, given by God.

O]nly where man communicates with man, only in speech, a social act, awakes reason. … It is not until man has reached an advanced stage of culture that he can double himself, so as to play the part of another within himself.

Je mehr sich unsere Bekanntschaft mit guten Büchern vergrößert, desto geringer wird der Kreis von Menschen, an deren Umgang wir Geschmack finden.

Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space.

A great poet is the most precious jewel of a nation.