Quotes About Culture

The sharing of food is the basis of social life.

Count Basie isn't just a man, or even just a band. He's a way of life.

This desire to fashion, to shape, a self and a life has all but gone from a contemporary culture whose emphasis, paradoxically enough, is so much on self.

A child without an acquaintance of some kind with a classic of literature ... suffers from that impoverishment for the rest of his life. No later intimacy is like that of the first.

I never bought a stock in my life. I don't understand it. To me it is like Chinese.

What has to be accepted, the given, is - so one could say - forms of life .

When I was a kid, hip-hop had that effect on me, it was escape and it showed me a different way of life.

What Alpha offers, and what is attracting thousands of people, is permission, rare in secular culture, to discuss the big questions - life and death and their meaning.

I was a girl in a land where rifles are fired in celebration of a son, while daughters are hidden away behind a curtain, their role in life simply to prepare food and give birth to children.

English life is seventh-eighths below the surface, like an iceberg, and living in England for a year constitutes merely an introduction to an introduction to an introduction to it.

Death is not a self-evident phenomenon. The margins between life and death are socially and culturally constructed, mobile, multiple, and open to dispute and reformulation.

I have spent most of my life studying the lives of other peoples - faraway peoples - so that Americans might better understand themselves.

I never thought that I would have to play an Indian, well half French, but an Indian woman in my life.

Art is how a culture records its life, how it poses questions for the next generation and how it will be remembered.

Reading civilized the inner life.

Dutch painting: daily life is enough.

Italians still know how to enjoy life, even as the country seems stuck in place.

The best education I've had in my life is to travel.

As for waxing, I've never waxed in my life and I never would. I'm extremely Welsh, so I draw the line at removing body hair.

Apparently we're now in a state where most ads are full of people looking at us in a way that would heat us up down to our toes if it happened in real life, and we don't think anything of it.

Canada is a big part of my life.

Believe it or not, countless generations of children finished their supper before the advent of Kraft Mac & Cheese and ice-cream sandwiches.

Habitually barefoot societies have lower rates of just about every major foot problem—flat feet, athlete's foot, plantar warts, plantar fasciitis, bunions, corns—many of which are practically nonexistent.

the food movement needs people who can do the dirty work: hunt wild boar, gut deer, eat invasive species, try insects, raise animals the right way, and pay for ethically raised meat. That role falls to us.