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Quotes About Culture

The ultimate end of your education was to make you a good wife.
~ Mary Wortley Montagu
To encourage literature and the arts is a duty which every good citizen owes to his country.
~ George Washington
I miss the city Bret and I live in, Wellington. It's a good place to be creative, in the same way New York is.
~ Jemaine Clement
Always read something that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it.
~ P. J. O'Rourke
Whoever does not visit Paris regularly will never really be elegant.
~ Honore de Balzac
I have never seen a good organization where the standards weren't high.
~ Colin Powell
I am thankful I was born in America, although if I gain any more weight the burqa thing may start to seem like a good idea to me. See? Another plus about America, you can always find some food.
~ Elayne Boosler
The French and the British are such good enemies that they can't resist being friends.
~ Peter Ustinov
The art market is global now, and theres becoming more of an international consensus about what constitutes good art.
~ Larry Gagosian
I majored in Chinese Studies. I'm probably the only director of chicken Indian zombie movies who can speak pretty good Mandarin.
~ Lloyd Kaufman
My idea of a good picture is one that's in focus and of a famous person.
~ Andy Warhol
There is no investment you can make which will pay you so well as the effort to scatter sunshine and good cheer through your establishment.
~ Orison Swett Marden
Frenchman: Germans with good food.
~ Fran Lebowitz
Greece is a good place for rebirths.
~ Judith Martin
If we could follow the slogan that says,"Turn off the TV and open a good book" we would do something of substance for a future generation.
~ Gordon B. Hinckley
It would be good for us Africans to accept ourselves as we are and recapture some of the positive aspects of our culture.
~ Wangari Maathai
One has to grow up with good talk in order to form the habit of it.
~ Helen Hayes
The sign of a good society is where talent is respected.
~ Irrfan Khan
On the other hand, at some level the mass of unresolved issues in Northern Ireland does influence the fact that there are so many good writers in the place.
~ Paul Muldoon
We're sometimes treated like the stupid cousin, so I'm always drawn to characters that make you feel good about being Welsh.
~ Matthew Rhys
Why has the South produced so many good writers? Because we got beat.
~ Walker Percy
Maxims are the condensed good sense of nations.
~ James Mackintosh
It is typically Norwegian to be good
~ Kjell Magne Bondevik
Wouldst thou know if a people be well governed, or if its laws be good or bad, examine the music it practices.
~ Confucius