Quotes About Culture

Once we accept violence as an adaptation, it makes sense that its expression is calibrated to the environment. The same individual will behave differently if he comes of age in Detroit, Mich., versus Windsor, Ontario; in New York in the 1980s versus New York now; in a culture of honor versus a culture of dignity.

Life is too short, and I'm Italian. I'd much rather eat pasta and drink wine than be a size 0.

I read about wine every day.

The way people connected with wine intrigued me and I wanted to be a part of it.

A big percentage of the Argentine economy is founded on beef ranching, and they produce steaks the size of dustbin lids. Malbec is the finest red wine in the world, and most restaurants have a wide selection.

Wine is smart, sexy, and classy.

I'm crazy about westerns. I need to do a western once in a while. It's like you know, eating bread, eating pasta, drinking wine. It's in my blood. I need it.

To take wine into our mouths is to savor a droplet of the river of human history.

Liverpool without European football is like a banquet without wine.

Wine culture is very white. It's a fact. When you look at it from a cultural standpoint, you're missing out on so many different cultural influences in America.

In France, I learned about wine and cheese.

Wine is wonderful stuff. But so many people are put off by the snobbery of it.

My years living and working abroad have instilled in me a passion for fine food, wine, theme parties, and enjoying life to the fullest.

I would just like to say that opera is no longer about fat people in breastplates shattering wine glasses.

I took up French boys and wine and I studied psychology.

I always knew the importance of it, since I was three or four years old my mother used to feed me wine and water. I grew up with wine as liquid food.

When I was a child, we always had wine on the table, no matter how simple the meal. The wine had no special identity; it was just 'the wine,' from the cellar cask. The rules were general: white with the first course, red with the main course.

I think wine is such a big universe that it's kind of like food - it's intimidating to a lot of people, myself included.

Cannes is a little bit like French wine. There are certain years that people prefer over others.

The advantage we have as Americans is that we can be fair; we tend to be more open-minded about different styles of wine.

Russians really needed a product that would be not as strong as vodka and not as feminine as cheap sparkling wine, so Martini was a good solution.

French culture is known for many great attributes, some of which probably have nothing to do with food, wine, and romance.

I enjoy walking through Nolita and Chinatown, watching the people and the buildings, browsing through shops and stopping at little cafes for a cup of coffee or glass of wine.

Even though he's a third-generation San Franciscan, my father's very European in some ways, and he loves wine.