Quotes About Culture

I think scientists have a valid point when they bemoan the fact that it's socially acceptable in our culture to be utterly ignorant of math, whereas it is a shameful thing to be illiterate.

It is very lonely being Jewish, I think. And confusing.

Hello!" "Hello!" the Russian says, waving his gloved hand. And I realize something else. I understood him. He said hello in Yiddish. He is Jewish, too.

Hello!" the Russian says, waving his gloved hand. And I realize something else. I understood him. He said hello in Yiddish. He is Jewish, too. A

other children's stories were certainly unabashedly racist, too. Among the worst were the popular if unfortunately named series of Dumpy Books for Children, whose titles include the notorious Story of Little Black Sambo

Japanese women are refusing to take birth control pills, opting to leave contraception up to men. Do you know what they call women who leave birth control up to men? Mothers.

Read everything. Read fiction and non-fiction, read hot best sellers and the classics you never got around to in college.

I read, in a fascinating book by F David Peat called Blackfoot Physics, that although we in the West think of the brain as the seat of learning, in indigenous cultures it is the belly.

Muffins are just an American way of saying, 'I eat cake for breakfast.

You know, on the bus, everyone used to read books. But then they were fiddling on their phones or those big phones, I don't know what they're called.

Leiamos e dancemos, pois essas são duas diversões que nunca farão mal algum ao mundo. Voltaire

Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world. VOLTAIRE

Poetry is good for people who are in strange lands," said Marek. "Yes

As a five-year-old in Berlin in 1965, I didn't know that funny women existed. It wasn't until I got back to England that I realised women could be funny.

society is far too caught up in shaming a woman for enjoying sex and applauding a man

New York is truly a city of baked goods.

There's a Korean word my grandma taught me. It's called jung. It's the connection between two people that can't be severed, even when love turns to hate. You still have those old feelings for them; you can't ever completely shake them loose of you; you will always have tenderness in your heart for them. I think this must be some part of what I feel for Genevieve. Jung is why I can't hate her. We're tied.

A lot of the stuff people are wearing, the kids from school wear too. Fashion really is cyclical.

Hay una palabra coreana que me enseñó mi abuela. Se llama jung. Es un vínculo entre dos personas que no puede cortarse, incluso cuando el amor se convierte en odio. Sigues conservando esos antiguos sentimientos por esa persona; no puedes librarte de ellos por completo; siempre guardarás un poco de ternura en tu corazón por esa persona.

Korea has the cutest stuff, you know.

Faithfulness is a social not a biological law.

My friend met me at the diner for coffee. His family fled Iran one week before the Shah fell. He didn't want to talk about the hum. I pressed him though. Your people have finally fallen into history, he said. The rest of us are already here. …

Clothes are the only thing that separates us from animals," my mother said. "Clothes and a sense of shame.

The wife watched her neighbor get fat over the next year. The Germans have a word for that. Kummerspeck. Literally, grief bacon.