Quotes About Culture

Design my own line? No, I just like the culture.

It's very difficult to talk about religion in Iran because religion has gotten so mixed up with politics.

Fletcher shrugged. "Science and mathematics are all the rage, you know. But who has time for good old Horace?

She ate with good manners, using the knife in the French way to push things onto her fork. She

It is the land of perpetual pubescence, where cultural lag is mistaken for renaissance.

All cultures must be judged in relation to their own history, and all individuals and groups in relation to their cultural history, and definitely not by the arbitrary standard of any single culture.

In the deep sauté, she has made a stew: eggplant and tomatoes, onions and summer squash, a sort of ratatouille, tiella, samfina, pisto , there are as many names for it as countries, and she has stopped caring for all the names of things. She has made stew, and there are ripe peaches and cream for dessert, a few bottles of wine to choose from.

I'm from Iowa, we don't know what cool is!

Why can't a 'bania' play hockey or football for India? Because every time he gets a corner, he opens a shop! —Old Indian Joke

Everything you love is from a different world. Hungry, you turn your nose up at my peas and rice.

It wasn't until later, for instance, that i learned that scalping was an old European custom.

CULTURE i must confess that waltzes do not move me. i have no sympathy for symphonies. i guess i hummed the Blues too early, and spent too many midnights out wailing to the rain.

On the first day of the arts and crafts class i had nothing really prepared, so i asked everyone to draw themselves. When i looked at the drawings i felt faint. All of the students were Black, yet the drawings depicted a lot of blond-haired, blue-eyed little white children. I was horrified.

Our desire to be free has got to manifest itself in everything we are and do. We have accepted too much of a negative lifestyle and a negative culture and have to consciously act to rid ourselves of that negative influence.

Most of the class was Black or Puerto Rican and we all loved music. But we hated music class with a passion. The teacher talked to us as though we were inferior savages, incapable of appreciating the finer things in life. She lectured about symphonies and concertos and sonatas and the like in a snooty voice.

Je suis féministe parce que je suis Algérienne

My father was a nobleman when he spoke his mother tongue, and a worker from the lowest class when he went over into French. Except

Il faut écouter les autres dans leurs langues et dans la forme spontanée de leur fureur.

Tea is instant wisdom — just add water!

Poverty is multidimensional. It extends beyond money incomes to education, health care, political participation and advancement of one's own culture and social organisation.

You'll understand one day how murderous, how suicidal, individual isolation is. You'll cry then, suffocated by our culture's cannibal loving." He

There is that sense of belonging one never has except in one's own country. Anywhere else, no matter how long you stay, they never let you forget you are alien. Indeed, it is a good thing, because it is on foreign soil that you are made more conscious of your own roots and consequently become more knowledgable. And that is why, in my writings, I talk of my country, present my people to others.

I grew up with the English language but not with the culture behind it. I was always outside that and deeply rooted in my own. I

And writing in a foreign language, you come to realise how words create not only a single image but a series of images, so that if the image created in the mind of the writer is different from the image in the mind of the reader, there will not be complete understanding between them. My