Browsing Topic Best Cultures Of The World Quotes

A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.

The three of them set out every morning on adventures of their own kind. Once, an elderly professor of literature, Mrs. Taggart’s friend, saw them on top of a pile in a junk yard, dismantling the carcass of an automobile. He stopped, shook his head and said to Francisco, ‘A young man of your position ought to spend his time in libraries, absorbing the culture of the world.’ ‘What do you think I’m doing?’ asked Francisco.

To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.

We should build respect and understanding between the diverse cultures of the world. We should help construct communities where people of different backgrounds can live together as neighbors. Freedom is something for which we must fight, not by limiting it but by strengthening it.

When you travel, remember that a foreign country is not designed to make you comfortable. It is designed to make its own people comfortable.

I think fiction comes from everything you’ve ever done, and said, and dreamed, and imagined. It comes from everything you’ve read and haven’t read… I think my work comes out of the culture of the world around me. I think that’s where my language comes from.

If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay home.

Multi-culture is the real culture of the world – the pure race doesn’t exist.