Quotes About Culture

China is a big country with a lot of chinese people living there

All marriages are mixed marriages.

The verb 'to love' in Persian is 'to have a friend.' 'I love you' translated literally is 'I have you as a friend,' and 'I don't like you' simply means 'I don't have you as a friend.

Only Irish coffee provides in a single glass all four essential food groups: alcohol, caffeine, sugar and fat.

I'm desperately trying to figure out why kamikaze pilots wore helmets.

Civilization has been thrust upon me... and it has not added one whit to my love for truth, honesty, and generosity.

Alas, love is too regional.

I would have loved it - without the French

What an enormous magnifier is tradition! How a thing grows in the human memory and in the human imagination, when love, worship, and all that lies in the human heart, is there to encourage it

Few nations have been so poor as to have but one god. Gods were made so easily, and the raw material cost so little, that generally the god market was fairly glutted and heaven crammed with these phantoms.

You people married to Italian men, you know what it's like.

Americans, who make more of marrying for love than any other people, also break up more of their marriages, but the figure reflects not so much the failure of love as the determination of people not to live without it.

My name is Fitzgerald O'Neill Dawson. My mother was born in Ireland and she landed all her love for the Old Country right smack on my head with a single name.

a young Indian in our little Datsun chased one of the government's huge armored cars. He was banging on the armor with a stick, "counting coup." The

Even now, in a good school, there is impersonality instead of close human contact; a sterile, cold atmosphere, an unfamiliar routine, language problems, and above all the maza-skan-skan, that damn clock—white man's time as opposed to Indian time, which is natural time.

The general rule is that whoever thinks, sings, acts, and speaks Indian is a skin, a full-blood, and whoever acts and thinks like a white man is a half-blood or breed, no matter how Indian he looks.

Sioux and elephants never forget.

Sound is important. Our sound is the sound of nature and animals, not the notes of a white man's scale. Our

Many times I asked my grandmother, "Why don't you teach me the language?" Her answer always was: " 'Cause we want you to get an education, to live a good life. Not have a hard time. Not depend on nobody. Times coming up are going to be real hard. You need a white man's education to live in this world. Speaking Indian would only hold you back, turn you the wrong way.

You must kill the Indian in order to save the man! " That was part of trying to escape the hard life. The missions, going to church, dressing and behaving like a wasi?un—that for her was the key which would magically unlock the door leading to the good life, the white life with a white-painted cottage, and a carpet on the floor, a shiny car in the garage, and an industrious, necktie-wearing husband who was not a wino.

Even the most white-manized Sioux is still half horse.

If you want to change the culture, you will have to start by changing the organization.

Looking like a straight girl] means wearing clothes that seek and destroy comfort. These are garments designed by gay men to attract heterosexual men. The straight girl is simply the hanger for an inside joke.

Because the culture we breathe and work in rushes against rest. It equates our worth with production and wealth and fame. The more we work toward those goals, the more society assigns us worth.