Quotes About Culture

The Hindi kid would soon learn what the British learned earlier in the century, and what the Russians would eventually learn by the late 1980s: that Afghans are an independent people. Afghans cherish custom but abhor rules. And so it was with kite fighting. The rules were simple: No rules. Fly your kite. Cut the opponents. Good luck.

Prošle sedmice Bibi jo donijela je vijest da Jalilove k?erke Saideh i Naheed trebaju krenuti u Mehrijinu djevoja?ku školu u Heratu. Otad su se misli o u?ionici i u?iteljima kovitlale u Mariaminoj glavi, slike sveski sa linijama, stupci brojeva i olovke što ostavljaju taman, debeo trag. Zamišljala je sebe u u?ionici sa drugim djevoj?icama njenih godina. Žudjela je za tim da stavi linijar na stranicu sveske, i vu?e crte koje izgledaju važno.

A l'école, nous jouions à un jeu appelé sherganji, la bataille des poèmes.

Tak usah pedulikan semua itu. Karena sejarah tak akan mudah disangkal. Begitu pula agama. Pada akhirnya aku adalah seorang Pashtun dan dia seorang Hazara, aku seorang Sunni dan dia seorang Syi'ah, dan tidak ada yang bisa mengubahnya. Tidak ada.

Afghanistan is like a beautiful mansion littered with garbage, and someone has to take out the garbage. That's what you were doing in Mazar, going door-to-door? Taking out the garbage? - Precisely. In the west, they have an expression for that. They call it ethnic cleansing. - Do they? Ethnic cleansing. I like it. I like the sound of it.

Vous le savez bien, nous autres Afghans adorons notre poésie. Même les moins instruits peuvent réciter des vers de Hafez, de Khayyam ou de Saadi. Vous rappelez-vous, monsieur Markus, lorsque vous m'avez dit l'année dernière combien vous aimiez les Afghans? Je vous ai demandé pourquoi et vous m'avez répondu en riant : parce que même vos tagueurs citent Rumi sur les murs.

Aún no nos han presentado como es debido —dije. Le tendí la mano—. Soy Amir. Miró primero la mano y luego a mí. —¿Eres el Amir del que me hablaba agha padre?

Ojalá recordaras las calles atestadas, con aquel olor a kibbeh frito, y los paseos que dábamos al atardecer con tu madre por la plaza de la Torre del Reloj.

Una mina. C'è un modo di morire più afghano di questo, Amirjan?

En eso consistía volar cometas; en dejar que tu cabeza volara junto a ella.

Campionatul de vân?toare de zmeie era un vechi obicei de iarn? în Afganistan. Începea dimineaÈ›a devreme È™i nu se termina pân? când pe cer nu mai r?mânea, plutind, decât zmeul câÈ™tig?tor.

Tea, politics, and scandal, the ingredients of an Afghan Sunday at the flea market.

The Chinese say its better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one.

We are of the mysterious East. No proof, just faith. No reason, just faith.

I asked my soul: What is Delhi? She replied: The world is the body and Delhi its life. Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib

I can't go to America. I don't want to go to any foreign land where I don't speak the language or know the customs. I'd rather die here by the Vietcong's hands, among my ancestors, than live like a ghost among strangers. You go!

the Iroquois take dreams very seriously. They see them as the secret wishes of the soul--the heart's desire, so to speak. Not all dreams, maybe, but the important ones. [p.254]

gourmet honey made from Japanese cherry blossoms.

Where was our language of reverence? Of sacredness? Every year in America we add hundreds of words to our dictionaries that describe our infatuation with pop culture and technology, but none that describe a deepening regard for the natural world.

Every native culture in North America has myths and legends about the bear, many of them tributes to wisdom and strength. "The bear is good to talk with," say the Yupik Eskimos. "If the bear wanted to speak with you, all it needed to do was remove its mask and there beneath was a human.

Every year in America we add hundreds of words to our dictionaries that describe our infatuation with pop culture and technology, but none that describe a deepening regard for the natural world.

It was a whiny culture, we were finding.

Saint George, a social terrarium in which the men think they are living in a Mormon polygamy, while the women consider it a lesbian world with a small percentage of male lesbians

a circle of Göbekli T-stones, which looked very contemporary even though they were based on something over ten thousand years old.