Quotes About Culture

the wild man is a symbol of masculinity that is instinctive, untamed by women, in touch with nature and part of nature - that will be dishonored and disregarded, even feared, until men seek to know and bring this source of strength and masculinity into consciousness, and into the culture

cuando un número importante de personas cambia su modo de pensar y de comportarse, la cultura lo hace también, y una nueva era comienza.

The conformity demanded of men in our patriarchal culture is like Procrustes' bed in Greek mythology. Travelers on their way to Athens were placed on this bed. If they were too short, they were stretched to fit, as on a medieval torture rack; if they were too tall, they were merely cut down to size.

there is no word in Hebrew for "goddess," so the word cannot appear in the Old Testament.

You know, your family's exactly like I imagined them. Exactly like you." "What's that supposed to mean?" "You're like the blackbirds. The blondbirds." "Very funny." "They're very nice. You always talk like they're Norwegian hillbillies or something.

because Judaism required the reading of the Torah and promoted literacy in Talmudic academies, the Jewish community's human capital increased

We need to move from a culture focused on monitoring the worker's presence to a culture focused on the results.

It's all men's fault,' she said, 'anyway. It would never have happened if it had been left to women.' 'If it had been left to women we'd probably still be living in the Stone Age!

One can't help thinking, Daddy, what a colourless life a man is forced to lead, when one reflects that chiffon and Venetian point and hand embroidery and Irish crochet are to him mere empty words. Whereas a woman- whether she is interested in babies or microbes or husbands or poetry or servants or parallelograms or gardens or Plato or bridge- is fundamentally and always interested in clothes.

Qué graciosos son los hombres! Cuando quieren hacernos un cumplido dicen que tenemos una mentalidad masculina.

Indigenous foods die when no one learns to cook them.

Scratch an Irishman and he'll bleed a story.

But the past was never erased, probably because there's just too much of it. Everything in France is built on layers of other things that existed before. The present in France is only a compromise between the past and the present.

Americans have no past, while Europeans are loaded down by ancient customs, habits, and prejudices that shape their behaviour.

There are many theories about how tapas came to refer to food. Some believe early tapas were slices of bread or cheese placed on top of drinks.

Juan Manuel María de la Aurora Fernández Pacheco Acuña Girón y Portocarrero (1650–1726)—the

David Dary, in Cowboy Culture: A Saga of Five Centuries

Few anglophones realize that by keeping French words in the "upper stratum" of their discourse, they are granting French a lofty position in their language and culture. As they export English all around the world, French and its high status have become part of the package. It's one of the least-known explanations for the resilience of French today.

We Americans unjustly hold the French to a New World standard, the authors state. But they're no more New World than the Japanese.

some reason the French love to laugh at Belgians. Belgian jokes are like Newfie jokes in Canada or Vermont jokes in New England (we can testify that the same cookie-cutter stories circulate freely between languages).

It was the French of the Normans that, grafting itself onto the barbaric Saxon tongue, gave it its most magnificent blossoming. And, in these new countries, where both English and French are intertwined again, it is as if English were bathing itself in the fountain of its own youth, and as if French were remembering the buried treasures it had thought forgotten.

Cultura e un cimitir de c?r?i ?i de alte obiecte disp?rute pentru vecie.

Memoria - fie memoria individual?, fie memoria colectiv? care este cultura - are o dubl? funcÈ›ie. Una, într-adev?r, e s? conserve anumite date, cealalt? s? cufunde în uitare informaÈ›iile ce nu ne folosesc È™i care ne-ar putea înc?rca inutil minÈ›ile.

Ceea ce numim cultur? e în realitate un lung proces de selecÈ›ie È™i de cernere.