Quotes about Culture
England and America are two countries separated by the same language.
- George Bernard Shaw
When written in Chinese, the word "crisis" is composed of two characters. One represents danger, and the other represents opportunity.
- John F. Kennedy
Eating is a ritual, and rituals make things easier.
- JM Coetzee
Moer and more he is convinced that English is an unfit medium for the truth in South Africa.
- JM Coetzee
Holy flowers floating in the air, were all these tired faces in the dawn of Jazz America.
- Jack Kerouac
This is the story of America. Everybody's doing what they think they're supposed to do.
- Jack Kerouac
If I ever went to Paris,' said Francis, unexpectedly pensive, 'I think I would be very happy...
- Jack Kerouac
At lilac evening I walked with every muscle aching among the lights of 27th and Welton in the Denver colored section, wishing I were a Negro, feeling that the best the white world had offered was not enough ecstasy for me, not enough life, joy, kicks, darkness, music, not enough night.
- Jack Kerouac
In free society art is not a weapon...Artists are not engineers of the soul.
- John F. Kennedy
As the culture war rages on, Lord give us wisdom to see the difference between defending our rights and protesting our slights.
- Kevin DeYoung
Warfare ... is just an invention, older and more widespread than the jury system, but none the less an invention.
- Margaret Mead
Obviously, culturally, England's style of play is a lot more direct and physical. In Spain, they're a lot more patient, and they have the ball a lot more.
- Toni Duggan