Quotes About Culture

When even those who should be happy by any reasonable measure are also not happy, there's got to be a serious systemic problem in humanity's culture.

The study of foodways - the intersection of food and culture - addresses a central issue in the humanities: how we connect the great dramas of history with the lives of ordinary people.

But-! I say! The common conventions of humanity-' 'Are all very well for common people.

Do you remember any great poet that ever illustrated the higher fields of humanity that did not dignify the use of wine from Homer on down?

Homosexuality has been around since humanity began and different societies at different times have reacted in a different manner.

Wherever humanity has made that hardest of all starts and lifted itself out of mere brutality is a sacred spot.

The neglect of the humanities in present-day education is doubtless not a cause but a symptom of an age.

Much of the academy on the humanities side, English departments in particular, no longer write what can pass for normal English.

While the rest of the world has been improving technology, Ghana has been improving the quality of mans humanity to a man.

I'm all groan up in America.

I thought about how mothers feed their babies with tiny little spoons and forks so I wondered, what do Chinese mothers use? Toothpicks?

If people from Poland are called Poles, why aren't people from Holland called Holes?

There's something whimsical, satirical, and silly about British humor, which Americans have always enjoyed, and lots of us come over here because we have an audience of people who enjoy it.

If you take an Oriental person and spin him around several times, does he become disoriented?

I imagine hell like this: Italian punctuality, German humour and English wine.

There's so much comedy on television. Does that cause comedy in the streets?

If your idea of a 7 course meal is a bucket of KFC and a sixpack, you might be a redneck.

I'm sort of like a post-modern vegetarian; I eat meat ironically.

The true New Yorker secretly believes that people living anywhere else have to be, in some sense, kidding.

Remember, in China when you are one in a million, there are 1,300 other people just like you.

Most rock journalism is people who can't write, interviewing people who can't talk, for people who can't read.

I read Shakespeare and the Bible, and I can shoot dice. That's what I call a liberal education.

You might be a redneck if... the blue book value of your truck goes up and down depending on how much gas it has in it.

There we were in the middle of a sexual revolution wearing clothes that guaranteed we wouldn't get laid.