Quotes About Understanding Cultural Differences

#1. Bull riding is probably the most dangerous sport in the world in terms of head injuries.

Jonathan Gottschall

#2. Try seeing, feeling, and tasting the water you swim in the way a land animal might perceive it. You may find the experience fascinating -- and mind-expanding.

Erin Meyer

#3. There is supercomputer somewhere in the Nevada desert whose sole function is to count the number of times that I have said the following, because it is unquantifiable by human minds at this point, but this time it's really true: I should have stayed home.

David Rakoff

#4. You look up to your parents and you want them to accept you, and you don't want them to look at you in a negative light. So you do things to make them proud and accept you.

Adepero Oduye

#5. There's always that feeling of 'Oh, God! One day they'll find out that I really have no idea what I'm doing.

Samantha Mathis

#6. If we are going to live with our deepest differences then we must learn about one another.

Deborah J. Levine

#7. Hitch hiked a thousand
miles and brought
You wine

Jack Kerouac

#8. I've learned that, as much as you would like to, you can't trust everyone.

Nathan East

#9. Don't start. I saw Marcie climb inside your Jeep."
"She needed a ride."
I adopted a hands-on-hips pose. "What kind of ride?"
"Not that kind of ride," he said slowly.

Becca Fitzpatrick

#10. A frozen river is not a dry one, it's just a still river on the surface but is still moving, and so am my winter writing.

Willie Nelson

#11. I have to say I know much more about football than I would like to, because my husband is a rabid football fan, and it's been so horrible.

Ruth Reichl

#12. Today I was rejected...

...

I hate being rejected... SAYYYYYYYYYY MY FUCKING NAME "Bill".

Deyth Banger

#13. Living gives you a better understanding of life. I would hope that my characters have become deeper and more rounded personalities. Wider travels have given me considerably greater insight into how cultural differences affect not only people, but politics and art.

Alan Dean Foster

#14. In his head he felt the confused whirling of images seeking a name. Words, sounds, surged up inside him, clean and clear, and settled on everything around him. He named, and saw what he named recognize itself.

Gioconda Belli