Quotes About Culture

We took pictures of the native girls, but they weren't developed. . . But we're going back next week.

People who are pro smacking children say, 'It's the only language they understand.' You could apply that to tourists.

There are some circles in America where it seems to be more socially acceptable to carry a hand-gun than a packet of cigarettes.

What's funny is that there's a lot of great Australian actors in American movies but you don't often hear them do their Australian, original accent.

Many people are surprised to hear that we have comedians in Russia, but they are there. They are dead, but they are there.

I understand why guys dont take a lot of females serious. A lot of girls dont have any self value, morals or self respect!

In any culture, subculture, or family in which belief is valued above thought, and self-surrender is valued above self-expression, and conformity is valued above integrity, those who preserve their self-esteem are likely to be heroic exceptions

What other culture could have produced someone like Hemingway and not seen the joke?

Indians love to reduce the prosaic to the mystic

"I do not wish to be shut up in a corral. All agency Indians I have seen are worthless. They are neither red warriors nor white farmers. They are neither wolf nor dog."

The Indian knew how to live without wants, to suffer without complaint, and to die singing

The life history of the individual is first and foremost an accommodation to the patterns and standards traditionally handed down in his community.

You can't fix education until you fix the community, education is not a building but a lifestyle and an environment.

If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay home

Never eat Chinese food in Oklahoma.

In terms of fast food and deep understanding of the culture of fast food, I'm your man.

How can one conceive of a one-party system in a country that has over two hundred varieties of cheese?

A Big Mac - the communion wafer of consumption

Food is our common ground, a universal experience.

One of the glories of New York is its ethnic food, and only McDonald's and Burger King equalize us all.

If you're going to America, bring your own food.

Americans can eat garbage, provided you sprinkle it liberally with ketchup, mustard, chili sauce, Tabasco sauce, cayenne pepper, or any other condiment which destroys the original flavor of the dish

Temperament lies behind mood; behind will, lies the fate of character. Then behind both, the influence of family the tyranny of culture; and finally the power of climate and environment; and we are free, only to the extent we rise above these.

A library is an arsenal of liberty.