Quotes About Culture

I understood that novels, unlike children's books, were serious and important and that, just as my parents' job was to treat patients in a hospital, so, too, was it someone's job to write novels. Every civilized country had such people. They were in some way the very mark of civilization.

He was the only other Turkish person I had ever met who was actually interested in some specific field of knowledge, and who wasn't just automatically doing medicine, engineering, or the thing they called "management.

Wasn't that how people in other countries viewed all American people—with their innocence, their Disney, their inability to drive stick shift? With the way they were protected—the way I was protected—from so much of the "reality" that happened elsewhere?

The boy who convinced you to go to Hungary, he must be very handsome," Svetlana's aunt Bojana told me. "You can find an excellent coffee in Budapest. I see that you are looking at my tea tray. Do you like it? It's quite a good tray. I will make it a gift to you. But not now—only when you get married.

But the Beatles turned out to be one of the things you couldn't avoid, like alcohol, or death.

The main meat that our people like to eat is what they have been taught not to eat -- the cheap and filthily-raised hog. This is a divinely-prohibited flesh. This truth has been before our eyes ever since we have had permission from the white man to read the Bible. Nothing good is said about it in the Bible in Leviticus.

Another common way to define blues is as a tradition that employs a range of tonal and rhythmic practices originating in West Africa.

So, depending on the situation, one can define blues in emotional, musical, cultural, or commercial terms, and these definitions overlap at times and diverge at others.

When did blues emerge? We have all heard variations on a mythic answer: The blues been here since time began Since the first lyin' woman met the first cheatin' man.

One is never too young for fine literature . . .

Cash avoids group tours for a reason: they turn even the most authentic experiences into a Disneyland ride. It's unavoidable, he

Marguerite had compiled a list of places she wanted to visit- this fromagerie in the sixth, this chocolatier, this home-goods store for hand-loomed linens, this wine shop, this purveyor of fennel-studded salami, which they ate on slender ficelles , this butcher for roasted bleu de Bresse .

American husbands are the best in the world; no other husbands are so generous to their wives, or can be so easily divorced.

Chinese prosody is largely concerned with the number of characters per line and the arrangement of tones - both of which are untranslatable. But translators tend to rush in where wise men never, tread, and often may be seen attempting to nurture Chinese rhyme patterns in the hostile environment of Western language.

hated the British business culture which I saw as slow, bureaucratic, cumbersome, lacking customer service, lacking initiatives.

The astute journalist had commented that Russians enjoy themselves without smiling, always taking their pleasure sadly.

There's nothing more romantic than Italian food.

You know what, it really highlights another problem. Changing the measurements' scale of importance, moving from one world into another, is without a doubt a culture change. Let's face it, that is exactly what we had to go through, a culture change. But how are we going to take the division through such a change?

If I wasn't doing this, I'd be in school studying political science or socioeconomic something. I love visiting different cultures and finding out how they make up a society.

Italy/Is one thing, England one.

Robert is a warm admirer of Balzac and has read most of his books, but certainly — oh certainly — he does not in a general way appreciate our French people quite with our warmth; he takes too high a standard, I tell him, and won't listen to a story for a story's sake.

If anything meant home and strength and heart and culture more to him than the New York Public Library lions, he couldn't have named it.

I had no idea that there were that many filthy insults available to the average speaker of Galactic Standard.

It was a relief to speak his native tongue, familiar words and known patterns that had settled into his bones with father's milk and rooted deep.