Quotes about Culture
I think they [ monastic folks ] were going to the desert to build a new society and in a sense to build a new world, a new culture together where it was easier to be good and holy.
— Shane Claiborne
Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
— John F. Kennedy
London is a riddle. Paris is an explanation.
— GK Chesterton
The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one's own country as a foreign land.
— GK Chesterton
There's nothing American tourists like more than the things they can get at home.
— Stephen Colbert
When we read we are able to travel to many places, meet many people and understand the world.
— Nelson Mandela
An English man does not travel to see English men.
— Laurence Sterne
Developing relationships is a very important part of doing business, and I see more similarities than differences when I travel the world.
— Dan Quayle
In Paris they simply stared when I spoke to them in French I never did succeed in making those idiots understand their own language.
— Mark Twain
The love of books is among the choicest gifts of the gods.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
I love New York City.
— Li Na
In 1900 the average person living in the United States wanted seventy-two different things and considered eighteen of them essential. Today the average person wants five hundred things and considers one hundred of them essential.
— Max Lucado