#culture

German is more familiar now since I live part of the year in Rome and part in the German part of Switzerland. But it's not difficult to sing in German; it's difficult to feel in German. This takes time. It's a culture. ↗

— Cecilia Bartoli

#difficult #familiar #feel #german #i

In the transmission of human culture, people always attempt to replicate, to pass on to the next generation the skills and values of the parents, but the attempt always fails because cultural transmission is geared to learning, not DNA. ↗

— Gregory Bateson

#attempt #because #cultural #culture #dna

The Treatise tries to analyze not only modern Western families, but also those in other cultures and the changes in family structure during the past several centuries. ↗

— Gary Becker

#analyze #centuries #changes #cultures #during

The adequate study of culture, our own and those on the opposite side of the globe, can press on to fulfillment only as we learn today from the humanities as well as from the scientists. ↗

— Ruth Benedict

#culture #fulfillment #globe #humanities #learn

I didn't know anything about Opus Die except from pop culture, like Dan Brown novels, which I knew wasn't really knowing anything about Opus Die. ↗

— Wes Bentley

#anything #brown #culture #dan #die

When I was 24 I went to Nigeria and it was such a culture shock, growing up in Australia and suddenly being the only white man in this unit full of black men. ↗

— Bruce Beresford

#being #black #culture #full #growing

In the olden days, everybody sang. You were expected to sing as well as talk. It was a mark of the cultured man to sing. ↗

— Leonard Bernstein

#days #everybody #expected #man #mark

I don't think you can in any way export culture with guns or tanks. ↗

— Bernardo Bertolucci

#culture #export #guns #i #tanks

Respecting other people's cultures is well and good, but I draw the line at where some branches of Islam, what they do to women. It's indefensible. ↗

— Jello Biafra

#cultures #draw #good #i #indefensible

But, when I toil in the field of Jewish culture which I frequently do, I am indeed a Jewish artist. ↗