Isabella Bird Quotes

In Hawaii, we greet friends, loved ones or strangers with Aloha, which means love. Aloha is the key word to the universal spirit of real hospitality, which makes Hawaii renowned as the world's center of understanding and fellowship. Try meeting or leaving people with Aloha. You'll be surprised by their reaction. I believe it and it is my creed. Aloha to you.

I love tattoos. And mine symbolise who I really am. I have a Samurai on my left arm. At a subconscious level, I connect to this warrior and model myself on his discipline, skills and honour. There is also a tribal tattoo and a Chinese symbol of faith. I have seen a lot of people getting tattoos just because it's a trend.

'Luncheon of the Boating Party,' owned by The Phillips Collection in Washington, D.C., has served Americans as a symbol of France and French culture, both of which I love, and is as evocative and triumphant an image as that other emissary of France, the Statue of Liberty.

I love the energy over here in the U.K., the hospitality is insane.

The most appealing side-effect of Sri Lankan cricket from where I stand, shuffling words, has been linguistic.

I love contemporary culture. Even the stuff I don't like.

I'd love to go back to Greek times and see the birth of theater and performing, in that time. It would be so extraordinary to see the need that theater came out of, in the first place. I think we could probably all learn a bit from that.

I appear to be drawn to iconic characters and what they reflect back to our cultures.

I love bringing the colors and textures of other cultures. If I wear a dress that I bought from a street vendor in Bali on a red carpet, it's a way of bringing my travels with me.

I love California. It has such a strong contribution to the history of culture, and popular culture. For better and worse, of course. Even the worst can be interesting to some degree sometimes for somebody creative.

What I love most about icons is finding out what's behind them, exploring the price of their power.

I don't have space to enter into the examples or the history of this, so I'm left with having to make the bold statement that culture is extinct.

Culture is more important than politics.

Without culture, development falls apart.

Culture is more important than rules and regulations.

I don't think culture is something you can describe.

Culture is more important than politics and government.

Food is interesting to me because it's a way of understanding culture and societies and history. I would never write about food just as food. Just like I would never write about baseball just as baseball.

When it comes to culture, I'm sort of like Nostradamus if he'd been a handsome, witty minor celebrity with a great head of hair instead of a crusty old dude from the olden days.

This is more in regards to celebrities. What we've got to understand is that we are the influencers of the hip-hop culture, the black culture. We are the way out, you feel what I'm sayin'? As far as who we look to and where we get stuff from - hip-hop culture is influencing the world, really, but especially the black communities.

Culture is important. Wars are fought over culture. It's not just about folks showing up and being hoity-toity. Culture is about definition.

A flag translates into everything, from tacky souvenirs to the names of organizations and the way that flags function.

Culture is a part of basic human nature, of deep humanity.

All culture, all important culture, is always linked to how people express and experience being alive.

Culture means the perfect and equal development of man on all sides.