Quotes About Culture

A puritan culture's conception of art is something which will endorse its morality and flatter its patriotism.

history - the lamp which illumines national character...

A city becomes a world when one loves its inhabitants.

effect of place upon human temperaments.

A puritan culture's conception of art is something which will endorse its morality and flatter its patriotism. Nothing else.

Any gastronome who is not an environmentalist is stupid, and any environmentalist who is not a gastronome is sad.

There is a sad forgetfulness of Christian modesty, especially in the life and dress of women.

Listening a cultivated person of today that jokes and almost boasts about his scientific ignorance, is as sad as listening a scientist that boasts about not having read any poem.

It's really sad for me that in the United States the Latino community is losing its culture and language, especially among kids born here - a lot of them can't even speak our language.

... a nation without humor is not only sad but dangerous.

Playboy seems like a sad magazine for me. It seems like for men who would sit around in a bath robe.

A lot of our entertainment throws into detail the stagnation and illness of how we live today-it's sad and it's sick... and it's profitable.

It will be a sad day for the world when the Oriental gent realizes that Western bumbling is only Eastern guile in a different idiom. Well, a lot of it, anyway.

Each language has its own temperament; some languages make a poem more dramatic or sad, and others make it more playful.

I just think it's sad that the main places in our culture that we designate to meet new people are bars and nightclubs.

Even in Japan, I don't think that the game culture is established. For example, my father will watch movies but games don't appear in his life at all, I think that that's sad.

A lot of the old movie theaters are closing down now, which is really sad. It's still in the back of my mind.

The Irish are great for their tunes, but all their lovesongs are sad and their warsongs happy.

More people pay attention to fiction and to narrative than pay attention to journalism. That's quite sad. More people pay attention to television than to prose. That's equally sad, if not more so.

America is a country of abundance, but our food culture is sad - based on huge portions and fast food. Let's stop with the excuses and start creating something better.

I feel like old age in America is a very sad thing. I have been many different places around the world where getting older is something you look forward to.

Science is an integral part of culture. It's not this foreign thing, done by an arcane priesthood. It's one of the glories of the human intellectual tradition.

Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet.

The pure culture is the foundation for all research on infectious disease.