Quotes About Culture

Britain was the last developed country where beating schoolchildren was respectable. This was outlawed last year [1988] - by one vote in Parliament. Parents are now almost the last people left who can hit children without fear of penalty, as long as it's moderate and fitting punishment...the language of authority still derives from violence, mistakenly, tragically.

I thought you were Mexican." "If you're Mexican, you're part Indian. And part Spaniard. Part eagle. Dog. Snake. Parts from whatever no one else wants." Coyote

Hemos de entender que el cerebro es enormemente plástico y maleable y que la cultura en la que vivimos puede favorecer más el dominio de uno de los hemisferios o incluso favorecer que trabajen de una forma más integrada.

I'm adhering to the core of 2000 years of gastronomic history.

Time was, you were pretty sure that the best food was the kind that was the easiest to find. Or the kind you consume at a stadium, with a game going on in front of you. This was before everyone watched the Food Network and Top Chef and the sadistic reality shows hosted by that angry British chef who screams at his "cheftestants" until the veins in his neck bulge and his shrinking victims either cry or go to the hospital with heart troubles. Well, my friend, the game has changed.

The passion of the Italian or the Italian-American population is endless for food and lore and everything about it.

As they say in Italy, Italians were eating with a knife and fork when the French were still eating each other. The Medici family had to bring their Tuscan cooks up there so they could make something edible.

In America, I would say New York and New Orleans are the two most interesting food towns. In New Orleans, they don't have a bad deli. There's no mediocrity accepted.

Bologna is the best city in Italy for food and has the least number of tourists. With its medieval beauty, it has it all.

Estamos perdiendo la saludable costumbre de la esperanza. Ya casi no entendemos que otras sociedades la sigan generando.

Cada uno ES de un solo sitio en la tierra y allí debe pagar su cuota. Yo soy de aquí.

A mis traductores, que han tenido la paciencia y el arte de reconstruir el habla y los silencios de mis montevideanos en más de veinte lenguas. (La borra del café)

I hope that my government can help change Italian mentality.

Gossip is the story of our lives," she said.``It is the way a society works out how it is to behave. Our manners, our morals,our mores

Markaz Dirasat al-Adab al-'Arabii wa-Dar al-Huda 2001; 16al-Suyuti, al-Rasa'il al-'ashar, Beirut: Dar al-Kutub al- 'Ilmiya, 1409 AH/1989 CE, p. 54; 'Ali ibn Taj al-Din al-Sinjari, al-karam fii akhbar Makka wa'l-bayt wa-wulat

The Crone has been missing from our culture for so long that many women, particularly young girls, know nothing of her tutelage. Young girls in our society are not initiated by older women into womanhood with its accompanying dignity and power. Without the Crone, the task of belonging to oneself, of being a whole person, is virtually impossible.

Since she has not been present in the culture, she has not been readily accessible to the conscious awareness of modern women. Without her, even the dynamic symbols of Virgin and Mother are distorted. The Crone is a woman is that part of her psyche that is not identified with any relationship nor confined by any bond. She infuses an intrinsic sense of self-worth, of autonomy, into the role of virgin and mother, and gives the woman strength to stand to her own creative experience.

There might be a Starbucks on every corner and an iPhone at every ear, but don't worry, people are still fucking crazy.

Really in technology, it's about the people, getting the best people, retaining them, nurturing a creative environment and helping to find a way to innovate.

It's perfectly possible to love Paris while detesting the French,

Culture and education are the lethal weapons against all kinds of fundamentalism.

You know, they say in France that translation is like a woman: she is either beautiful or faithful.

I was a westerner in Iran, an Iranian in the West. I had no identity. I didn't even know anymore why I was living.

We found ourselves veiled and separated from our friends.