Culture Quotes

"Literature is news that stays news." "The first human who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization." "There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign" "The gospel of life is at the heart of Jesus' message. Lovingly received day after day by the Church, it is to be preached with dauntless fidelity as good news to the people of every age and culture" "Fame can take interesting men and thrust mediocrity upon them." "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." "There is no document of civilization which is not at the same time a document of barbarism" "Without libraries what do we have?" "Cooking is an expression of the land where you are and the culture of that place" "The foundation of empire is art and science " "The primary function of art is to make us understand what life means" "Traditions are not sent from heaven, they are created by us." "To live in a world without stories would be unbearable" "Art is the most effective mode of communications that exists" "Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity"