Quotes About Culture

F. Scott Fitzgerald

I first read The Great Gatsby as a teenager; I imagine this is when most Americans encounter F. Scott Fitzgerald's seminal work.

Part of the enchantment of Paris in the Twenties was that everything that happened there seemed to have something to do with art.

The clean book bill will be one of the most immoral measures ever adopted. It will throw American art back into the junk heap.

Their point of resemblance to each other and their difference from so many American women lay in the fact that they were all happy to exist in a man's world - they preserved their individuality through men and not by opposition to them.

Do all the Americans in Paris just shoot at each other all the time?

American men," said Nancy gravely, "don't know how to drink." "What?" Jim was startled. "In fact," she went on carelessly, "they don't know how to do anything very well. The one thing I regret in my life is that I wasn't born in England." "In England?" "Yes. It's the one regret of my life that I wasn't.

None of the Victorian mothers--and most of the mothers were Victorian--had any idea how casually their daughters were accustomed to be kissed.

The 'belle' had become the 'flirt', the 'flirt' had become the 'baby vamp'.

E remarcabil c? o fiin?? uman? poate s? înÈ›eleag? atît de puÈ›in, deÈ™i tr?ieÈ™te într-o civilizaÈ›ie atît de complex?.

Medeniyet yok oluyor diye ba??rd? Tom öfkeyle, Ben art?k bu konuda karamsar?m. Åžu Goddard denen adam?n yazd??? The Rise of the Coloured Empires adl? kitab? okudun mu?

Physical difference frightens people in our culture more than anything else. You can be aberrant as hell mentally, politically, socially, but do one little thing physically - put a bone in your nose - and boy, you're in trouble!

Su idea de cómo iban las cosas al país se medía por el tamaño de las colillas que recogía en la calle

178 Secondo me la gente non è più felice come una volta. Non si vedono più facce contente, o almeno io non ne vedo. Quando Frances ci ha portato a fare spese, ho detto alla signora Otis: Guarda, hanno tutti quanti la faccia scura, anche i giovani.

As recent immigrants, they wanted their children to speak and read English well. Miss

Even though the roots of the crash lay in the excesses of the private sector, in many countries, people did not move to the left economically; they moved to the right culturally.

For at least ten years, the revenues of the video gaming industry have exceeded those of Hollywood and the music business put together.)

Americans speak few languages, know little about foreign cultures, and remain unconvinced that they need to rectify this.

The central conservative truth is that it is culture, not politics, that determines the success of a society. The central liberal truth is that politics can change a culture and save it from itself." That

Tú lee todo lo que puedas. Reúne cultura. Cuanta más, mejor. Para que no caigas al agujero en el que están cayendo muchos en este país.

I go forward slowly, dead, and my vision is no longer mine, it's nothing: it's only the vision of the human animal who, without wanting, inherited Greek culture, Roman order, Christian morality, and all the other illusions that constitute the civilization in which I feel. Where can the living be?

What once was moral is now, for us, aesthetic … What was social is now individual

Saudades, só portugueses Conseguem senti-las bem. Porque têm essa palavra Para dizer que as têm.

Minha pátria é a língua portuguesa