Culture Quotes

"Culture is the widening of the mind and of the spirit" "To survive, you must tell stories" "Libraries have always seemed to me like the richest places in the world" "I want to put on the table not why 85 percent of kids in my country, which is the USA, call themselves religious but why 15 percent don’t. That’s the number that has always shoul fascinate us." "Music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance... poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music." "Everything can change, but not the language that we carry inside us, like a world more exclusive and final than one's mother’s womb" "The power of a writer is that he is a powerful figure in the world" "By seeing London, I have seen as much of life as the world can show" "Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity" "The soul takes nothing with her to the next world but her education and her culture" "To have great poets, there must be great audiences." "One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words " "We are always pursued by our origins. " "I think our culture doesn't recognize passion, because real passion has the power to disrupt boundaries " "Cooking is an expression of the land where you are and the culture of that place"