Quotes About Culture

They said her duck recipe and the Chinese music were so dramatic everything else sounded anemic.

The first domesticated animal was the scapegoat.

I've never really wanted to go to Japan. Simply because I don't like eating fish. And I know that's very popular out there in Africa.

Cheese is milk's leap toward immortality.

There's nothing good about diversity, other than the food, and we don't need 128 million Mexicans for the restaurants.

I don't feel that I'm strictly Danish I don't feel that my sense of humor is strictly Danish or my human sensibility is strictly Danish.

If you're that hypersensitive about color and don't have a sense of humor, don't marry out of your race.

Food is sort of like the Jewish sense of humor, a defense mechanism. It is one of the things that helped the Jews survive through 2, 000 years of an often very harsh Diaspora.

Going to war without France is like going hunting without an accordion.

You might be a redneck if your momma tore her best dress coon hunting.

America is the only place where people go hunting on a full stomach.

Hunting was the labour of the savages of North America, but the amusement of the gentlemen of England.

I had to understand the whole bounty hunting thing, because we don't have that in Venezuela. Nothing similar at all, at least not legal.

The life of nations no less than that of men is lived largely in the imagination.

The imagination is the goal of history. I see culture as an effort to literally realize our collective dreams.

The white imagination is sure something when it comes to blacks.

All of Sicily is a dimension of the imagination.

If there is one thing I long for above all else, it's that the years to come may see Christianity in this country able again to capture the imagination of our culture.

I'm not a separatist. The imagination is integrative. That's how you make the new -- by putting something else with what you've got. And I'm unashamedly an American integrationist.

Shakespeare is a drunken savage with some imagination whose plays please only in London and Canada.

Two thousand years ago, five thousand, they didn't have a word for imagination, and faith was the best they could come up with for a pretty solemn bunch of followers.

There is no connection between the political ideas of our educated class and the deep places of the imagination.

Small towns harbor small imaginations.

Books have a vital place in our culture. They are the source of ideas, of stories that engage and stretch the imagination and most importantly, inspire.