Quotes About Culture

Baseball is what we were. Football is what we have become.

For I am my mother's daughter, and the drums of Africa still beat in my heart.

We ended up in America by default, so it'll never really be our home.

A STUDY shows that if an American schizophrenic hears voices, they tell him to commit violence. And if a schizophrenic in India hears voices, they tell him to clean the house.

I know it's wrong to generalize, but some cultures encourage certain traits, and the ones the iMozani'i culture promotes are ones I happen to like, so I felt right at home from the word go.

The religion of the Mongols at the time of the invasion was a paganism founded upon sorcery and magic; but they soon thereafter adopted Islamism,

The Kremlin was built (1300)—not as we see it now.

They were proud of their nationality, which had existed nearly as long as from Columbus to our own day. They gloried in their splendid background of great deeds and their long line of heroes reaching back to Rurik.

The German nation is of ancient lineage, and indeed belongs to the royal line of human descent, the Aryan;

Aryan race occupied Europe north of Greece and Italy: the Keltic, the western; the Teutonic, the central; the Slavonic the eastern; and these, in turn, had ramified into new subdivisions or tribes. To

constantly met in Russian

Spies? Foreigners? Egyptians? Romans? Persians?

When team members personally create an environment in which they can be proud of their work and work processes, you have made a good start.

We Persians have a saying that one should deliberate serious matters first drunk, then sober.

Liquor for men and tears for women," he would say. "What would we do without them?

Do not read beauty magazines. They only make you feel ugly.

Beautiful, Glorious Scotland, has spoilt me for every other country.

how sex roles are determined by the forces around us rather than our genes.

Men and women must be educated, in a great degree, by the opinions and manners of the society they live in.

In every age there has been a stream of popular opinion that has carried all before it, and given a family character, as it were, to the century.

I cannot help but think that, had I lived in a culture where "thinness" was not regarded as a strange state of grace, I might have sought out another means of attaining that grace

when a woman is thin in this culture, she proves her worth, in a way that no great accomplishment, no stellar career, nothing at all can match.

If American men are obsessed with money, American women are obsessed with weight. The men talk of gain, the women talk of loss, and I do not know which talk is the more boring.

In the first quarter of our century we daily conflate information with knowledge and knowledge with wisdom—with the resulting diminution of all three.