Quotes About Culture

Thanks, Ms. Liberty! Is that a sari you're wearing? I hope not.

I began to feel that this city is my home. It came nearer to my heart, not so distant. That's how it started, but now it's different. I am enjoying making friends my age in my church-non-Bengali friends who don't know the customs that keep a widow so lonely.

Masjid turns on the radio, and Rabindra Sangeet adds the perfect soundtrack to the scene: "Por ke korile nikot bondhu"—you bring the distant near. One of Baba's favorites.

pen. Where am I from? Can the answer be stories and words, some of theirs, some of mine?

Nothing makes you feel more beautiful than a sari.

My heart is still Bengali. Isn't Didu's?

Well, for one thing, the culture we have does not make people feel good about themselves. We're teaching the wrong things. And you have to be strong enough to say if the culture doesn't work, don't buy it. Create your own. Most people can't do it.

But as of late, I have been consumed with the significant task of revising the latest edition of my Practical Handbook of Bee Culture , while alternately putting the finishing touches on my four volumes of The Whole Art of Detection . The latter is a rather tedious, labyrinthine undertaking...

One of the things that's beautiful about New Orleans is how culturally rich we are and how well we have worked together. People call us a gumbo. It's really important that we get focused on the very simple notion that diversity is a strength, it's not a weakness.

For girls, war meant having the upper halves of one or more fingers chopped off each time a close relative was killed, to satisfy the dead person's ghost.

the natives "were puzzled as to why the light-skinned men, who must really be ghosts or spirits, had no women with them.

If we become one of those societies that attack success, why not come as certain there will be a lot less success? And that's not who we are.

The American culture promotes personal responsibility, the dignity of work, the value of education, the merit of service, devotion to a purpose greater than self, and at the foundation, the pre-eminence of family.

Culture, what you believe, what you value, how you live matters. Now, as fundamental as these principles are, they may become topics of democratic debates from time to time, so it is today with the enduring institution of marriage. Marriage is a relationship between a man and a woman.

Fashion is instant language.

It's the middle of the day in China!

People who are strangers to liquor are incapable of talking about literature.

You're buying into this celebrity bullshit? Don't you know it's all a facile celebration of commerce and mediocrity?

Two years earlier there hadn't been a rave scene in the States. And now, seemingly overnight, the world had changed. Every decentsize city in North America now had DJ record stores and rave-clothing stores. Musicians were trading in their guitars for synths and making techno records that were becoming globe-spanning anthems. It was 1992 and the rave scene was blossoming like a shiny, DIY flower.

Cannibalism is a predicament of the animistic hunter or gardener, who must live by consuming animals or plants which are essentially persons themselves" (Graeber & Sahlins, On Kings p16)

The ink of the scholar is more sacred than the blood of the martyr.

My main mistake was to have made an ancient people advance by forced marches toward independence, health, culture, affluence, comfort.

Shah is a kind of magic word with the Persian people.

In this group, everyone was foreign, and so, in a sense, no one was.