Quotes About Culture

The number eighteen is symbolically meaningful because it is the numerical equivalent of the Hebrew word chai, which means life.

Every human being should know two languages: the language of society and the language of signs. One serves to communicate with other people, the other serves to understand God's messages.

During the week that I arrived in the United States, I saw an airport, used a telephone, used a library, talked with a scientist, and was shown a computer for the first time in my life.

Every American bride is taken there [Niagara Falls], and the sight of the stupendous waterfall must be one of the earliest, if not the keenest, disappointments in American married life.

The civilized are those who get more out of life than the uncivilized, and for this we are not likely to be forgiven.

Reality TV is the perfect antidote to people who don't have enough self-centered douchebags in their life.

Can the life of the time be caught in an advertisement? Is that how it is, really, in the meadows of the world?

Everything in Japan is hidden. Real life has an unlisted phone number.

Reading is not just an escape. It is access to a better way of life.

In America, life is introverted, self-absorbed - and so is their music.

If I were to live my life over again, I would be an American. I would steep myself in America, I would know no other land.

Superstition is the poetry of life.

Of all the things which man can do or make here below, by far the most momentous, wonderful, and worthy are the things we call books.

In Mexico you have death very close. That's true for all human beings because it's a part of life, but in Mexico, death can be found in many things.

When you walk down the street of Kabul your values for life changes, they do change.

I should have known better. Pro-life arguments are now based on scientific evidence and the pro-choice arguments are not. That is a cultural, historical fact.

Every philosophy is the philosophy of some stage of life.

As a rule they will refuse even to sample a foreign dish, they regard such things as garlic and olive oil with disgust, life is unliveable to them unless they have tea and puddings.

Yes, too much emphasis is put on outward physical attributes in every area of American life.

They (the Rothschilds) have never dreamed of being ashamed of their wealth nor of disguising their way of life, no more than they have ever failed to assume their roles and responsibilities as Jews.

Hollywood isn't a place, it's a way of life.

London is on the whole the most possible form of life.

One might enumerate the items of high civilization, as it exists in other countries, which are absent from the texture of American life, until it should become a wonder to know what was left.

But in another world, another life, probably growing up in another country, I might have been more of a dancer.