Quotes About Culture

Hold those things that tell your history and protect them.

A book brings its own history to the reader.

In my world, history comes down to language and art.

The English inn stands permanently planted at the confluence of the roads of history, memory, and romance.

The trouble with European cities is that they are drenched in their history, almost all of which is terrible.

But myth is something else than an explanation of the world, of history, and of destiny.

Nine English traditions out of ten date from the latter half of the nineteenth century.

A Museum of fetishes would give special attention to the history of underwear.

All objects, all phases of culture are alive. They have voices. They speak of their history and interrelatedness. And they are all talking at once!

Above my cradle loomed the bookcase where/ Latin ashes and the dust of Greece/ mingled with novels, history, and verse/ in one dark Babel. I was folio-high/ when I first heard the voices.

In high school, I loved history. I also loved cosmography, algebra. Mexico is so rich in culture and history, and I have always enjoyed that.

The history of a culture can be determined by its untranslatable words.

I am a fan of history.

In a country like France, so ancient, their history is full of outstanding people, so they carry a heavy weight on their back. Who could write in French after Proust or Flaubert?

As soon as you set yourself up in the position of transferring paint from one place to another, your whole culture invades you. It tells you all about the history of art.

The advantages found in history seem to be of three kinds, as it amuses the fancy, as it improves the understanding, and as it strengthens virtue.

Societies that do not eat people are fascinated by those that do.

Poetry carries its history within it, and it is oral in origin. Its transmission was oral.

History does not merely touch on language, but takes place in it.

Drinking wine and wearing trousers were nothing compared to reading the history of ideas.

The United States may have retained more of the intellectual imprint of the British 18th century than Britain itself.

Without history we are the prisoners of the accident of where and when we were born.

In a way, I'm very interested in writing about Maine, because I think Maine represents its own kind of history. It's the oldest state, and it's the whitest state.

History is not usually what has happened. History is what some people have thought to be significant.