Gilles Marini Quotes

If someone were to put a proposition before men bidding them choose, after examination, the best customs in the world, each nation would certainly select its own.

What is one China? You have to tell me what one China looks like. If a girl is to marry into another family, you have to tell her what that family is like.

Cultures grow on the vine of tradition.

How do cultures differ from one another? Above all, in their customs. Tell me how you dress, how you act, what are your habits, which gods you honor, and I will tell you who you are. Man not only creates culture, he carries it around with him. Man is culture.

Each country is strong on some tradition.

A man may surely be allowed to take a glass of wine by his own fireside.

Culture is everything. Culture is the way we dress, the way we carry our heads, the way we walk, the way we tie our ties - it is not only the fact of writing books or building houses.

The fate of a nation depends on the way that they eat.

I am French. I was born here, I live here and France is my cultural identity.

Cows' milk and soya milk isn't good for me. Almond milk and rice milk is OK. I don't really drink alcohol, either. Maybe wine but only sometimes.

Americans are locked into our traditions.

There are great legends and great fighters in the history of Mexico, and there will be more to come.

Customs and traditions followed in North and South India are different. But the underlying sentiments are the same.

When knowledge is cut off from traditional values, it becomes disastrous.

Every country has its own culture and sensitivities.

I don't smoke, no drugs, and drink red wine occasionally.

Humans become human through intense learning not just of survival skills but of customs and social mores, kinship and social laws-that is, culture.

One should write not unskillfully in the running hand, be able to sing in a pleasing voice and keep good time to music; and, lastly, a man should not refuse a little wine when it is pressed upon him.

The youth of America is their oldest tradition. It has been going on now for three hundred years.

I was taught in my Introduction to Anthropology [course in college], it is not just the great works of [hu]mankind that make a culture. It is the daily things, like what people eat and how they serve it.

Listen your Lordship, I'm a respecter of institutions. Even in Paris, I remained a Canadian. I puffed hashish, but I didn't inhale.

I'll tell you what I like about Chinese people: they're hanging in there with the chop sticks, aren't they? You know they've seen the fork. They're staying with the sticks.

Be always decent and right in your home town; and when you're on the road, never take more than four glasses of beer a day or play higher than a twenty-five-cent limit.

Sir, I did not count your glasses of wine, why should you number up my cups of tea?

Je suis autant Chinois que Fran c° ais. I am as much Chinese as French.