Quotes About Culture

It's a guy thing really means There's no rational thought pattern connected with it and you can't make it logical.

I have a dream, and a plan, to combine the commercial possibilities of Valentine's Day with the substance and meaning of black history month. I call it: Blackentine's Day.

Thanksgiving, when the Indians said, Well, this has been fun, but we know you have a long voyage back to England.

After all these years, its still embarrassing for me to play on the American golf tour. Like the time I asked my caddie for a sand wedge and he came back ten minutes later with a ham on rye.

Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you what you are.

A good holiday is one spent among people whose notions of time are vaguer than yours.

I don't mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it is the language I don't understand.

Do I listen to pop music because I'm miserable or am I miserable because listen to pop music?

The Irish ignore anything they can't drink or punch.

Dublin university contains the cream of Ireland: Rich and thick.

You can't be a real country unless you have a beer and an airline - it helps if you have some kind of a football team, or some nuclear weapons, but at the very least you need a beer.

There is nothing so stupid as the educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated in.

Having a thirteen-year-old in the family is like having a general-admission ticket to the movies, radio and TV. You get to understand that the glittering new arts of our civilization are directed to the teen-agers, and by their suffrage they stand or fall.

Is adult amusement killing our children, or is killing our children amusing adults?

I have noticed... that men usually leave married women alone and are inclined to treat all wives with respect. This is no great credit to married women.

I don't know who invented the high heel, but all men owe him a lot.

Italy has been a single, united country only since 1870. For many centuries before this, it was a collection of independent "city states." Each city state was based on a main city, such as Venice, Florence, or Milan, and had its own customs and language. Even today, many people think of themselves first and foremost as Venetians (from Venice), or Florentines, or Sicilians, and only then as Italians.

Today's Italians Many Italians are naturally expressive and affectionate people. They tend to talk easily and rapidly, making descriptive gestures. They are generally family-loving people. Their warmth is especially noticeable in their treatment of babies and children, who are adored by their proud parents.

It's a sad day when so many people shirk the most basic responsibilities of life that simply being respectable becomes behavior worthy of special attention. In other words, I think the people you describe are doing what they should. A society has weak values when it regards going to work every day and taking care of your family as heroic.

On one side is this strict orthodox religion, on the other is communism, and I am this little girl pulled between the two. It makes me who I am. It turns me into the kind of person that Freud would have a field day with, for sure.

Maybe that's what living in America does to you: it spreads you into far distances until you're just little bits rolling apart.

When we came to America, though, we didn't know what the right thing was.

I hear Mrs. Roble say, "You know, I've seen this happen before with the Muslim kids. I push those girls—they're so bright. Then one day they come in with a head scarf, and they say their marriage has been arranged and they're not going to college after all.

We all share the right to create our own savage, as Glifford Geertz has remarked [ Out of the Garden ].