Quotes About Culture

Italian men understand and appreciate women of volatile temperament." "I hate you," she said again, unable to think of anything more vicious to say in the state she was in.

Faced with the unfamiliar, we the public have been trained to rely on museums, like schools, to serve up art and culture like pieces of pie: little wedges of esthetics, criticism, politics and history.

And if all womankind banded together and took the male path, the world would turn into one huge brothel.

In America we eat, collectively, with a glum urge for food to fill us. We are ignorant of flavor. We are as a nation taste-blind.

Language is not only a means of speech and thought, it is a bridge with the significant function of bringing the wealth of the past to our day and conveying today's heritage and our new compositions to the future.

Nations that can manage to develop their language and make it accommondating while at the same time staying faithful to the roots of it are the most communicative societies that are also most dynamic in thought.

It's amazing how, age after age, in country after country, and in all languages, Shakespeare emerges as incomparable.

My dear young women, with all my heart I urge you not to look to contemporary culture for your role models and mentors. Please look to your faithful mothers for a pattern to follow. Model yourselves after them, not after celebrities whose standards are not the Lord's standards and whose values may not reflect an eternal perspective. Look to your mother.

If we don't live in a way that is distinctive from our culture, then why not? If we are going to be satisfied with living our lives like the rest of the world and adding a weekly sermon and a small group Bible study on top, then what exactly are we up to in the church? Isn't there more? And

The blues demand of theology a prophetic criticism that contests all arbitrary uses of power or coercion, that challenges individual acquisitive materialism, that repudiates any and every attempt to undermine humanity's very humanness, and that cherishes the lives of ordinary everyday children and women and men of all cultures and races.

By engaging in dialectical conversation with this music, theology places black vernacular culture at the heart of its mediation of the Christian message.

Waters said, "Meeting a preserving Negro did for me what logic could not do." It was the first time Waters looked at his culture critically and light of the gospel. He observed: "I am a Southerner. I have been prejudiced. I had to get rid of my prejudice to get to be a little more Catholic.

Mangiare bene o male dipende dalla cultura. Mangiare o non mangiare dipende dal denaro.

The French also have far lower rates of obesity than Americans do, despite the fact that their diet is higher in fat.

We were a country of sages. They were all over the place, sometimes clogging the streets and roadways.

London is often confused with England. The English also live in London but they are only one of the communities which inhabit a true world city.

Travel continues to broaden the mind and slim the wallet.

Every culture has its version. It's universal. One of the things that is most fascinating about studying mythology is how so many of the stories and symbols are the same through the centuries and cultures. Just renamed and slightly altered.

and the onion-shaped minarets of Persepolis in the distance.

Most symphonies, however, are wordless. They are built only of tones, nonlinguistic sounds vibrating in the air, and somehow, we take them to heart and feel that they speak to us more deeply than words ever could. Cultures make up certain rules for music that we learn without even recognizing them; for example, in the West, we have decided that music in minor keys tends to sound sad or anxious, while music in major keys conveys confidence, triumph. Other cultures have made other decisions.

Now western movies, western novels, and western music were all forbidden again. Russian nationalism was on the rise. French bread was renamed "city bread.

The newspaper concluded: "Now tradition takes over, masks are the rule, and the carnival begins.

As musicologist Richard Taruskin has said, "What made Shostakovich's music the secret diary of a nation was not only what he put into it, but what it allowed listeners to draw out.

No one comes from Rome or Samarkand to see brown flowers.