Quotes About Culture

Wo ein Gebildeter weilt, kann keine Rohheit aufkommen.

Pero no se comprende tan claramente cómo semejante ritualización es en el hombre fruto de la transmisión histórica de un pueblo, mientras que en el animal representa un desarrollo filogenético de formas de movimiento innatas y hereditarias.

Uwaaaaahh! Why does taking off traditional clothing sound so suggestive?! --Kaoru Hanabishi

Eves, on the scale from wholesome to whoresome, you're practically Amish.

You're arrogant." "I'm Dacian. You can't have one without the other.

Mel scoffed. "Eves, on the scale from wholesome to whoresome, you're practically Amish.

I grew up in a Spanish-speaking household." With una madre loca, Catholic to the core.

Oh, French is my favorite language. Ask fucking anybody.

You don't have to understand Sorceri ways; you just have to accept them.

Whenever I ask my lovers about our marriage plans, my lovers' fathers will suddenly have holes or blocks in their hearts. Yes, I come from India. We have an obnoxious caste system and we cannot do intercaste love marriages.

Being in a foreign country means walking a tightrope high above the ground without the net afforded a person by the country where he has family, colleagues, and friends, and where he can easily say what he has to say in a language he has known since childhood.

Menns lærdom kommer av bøker, kvinners av naturen

Som vi på flera olika vis nu har sett så härrör alltid hävdandet av en identitet ur en kontrast eller en motsättning ...

Men människor kan tycka att en gemensam härkomst har betydelse ... utan att vilja leva under en gemensam regering. Sionism är bara ett tänkbart sätt att vara jude på. Det är därför som det finns nationaliteter utan nationalstater.

with religious denominations conceived of as a species of ethnic group).

I find I learn much more by traveling than by staying at home.

It's the latest popular song, declared the phonograph, speaking in a sulky tone of voice. A popular song? Yes. One that the feeble-minded can remember the words of and those ignorant of music can whistle or sing. That makes a popular song popular, and the time is coming when it will take the place of all other songs.

I have heard, my dear friend, that a person can become over-educated; and although I have a high respect for brains, no matter how they may be arranged or classified, I begin to suspect that yours are slightly tangled. In any event, I must beg you to restrain your superior education while in our society.

But to become civilized means to dress as elaborately and prettily as possible, and to make a show of your clothes so your neighbors will envy you, and for that reason both civilized foxes and civilized humans spend most of their time dressing themselves. I don't, declared the shaggy man. That is true, said the King, looking at him carefully; but perhaps you are not civilized.

People think of black English as ungrammatical, but it bears the same relationship to standard English as contemporary Hebrew does to ancient Hebrew.

I think that I could see Darwin having a relationship with Asia.

I find Mexico exciting to visit, but I think [it] is looked down upon. Mexico is not a very respected place, unless you're Mexican, and even then it's something of a love/hate relationship.

As americans I think it's harder for us to have a relationship with opera because the access to it is so limited.

My relationship to all my family in Ireland is more to family as a whole. It wasn't that we had a very specific one-on-one relationship.