John Ciardi Quotes

Wine has been with civilized man from the beginning.

It is hard to imagine a civilization without onions.

Education is the transmission of civilization.

Food is a lens for culture.

Without memory, there is no culture. Without memory, there would be no civilization, no society, no future.

The food and culture of any place go hand in hand.

Stories about food are stories about us-our history and our values.

A language is a more ancient and inevitable thing than any state.

I think really, China, Chinese, I think they really have a long history of civilization, rich culture.

Countries and places have a history, a story, and a culture.

We should not look down on our first ancestors.

What makes cookbooks interesting is to find out about the people and the culture that invented the food.

Progress in civilization has been accompanied by progress in cookery.

Food tells you everything about the way people live and who they are.

We, to some degree, are like what we are because we inherited certain things from the Greeks and the Romans. One of them that's so striking is the whole area of politics.

Old cookbooks connect you to your past and explain the history of the world.

Poetry is the elder sister of history, the mother of language, the ancestress of civilization.

World history is the history of the great cultures.

I just love learning about the past and everything we've been through as people and as a country.

The quantity of civilization is measured by the quality of imagination.

Without the library, you have no civilization.

Tea is one of the main stays of civilization in this country.

All tradition is merely the past.

A language is not just words. It's a culture, a tradition, a unification of a community, a whole history that creates what a community is. It's all embodied in a language.

Art takes different forms... But it represents something that is basic in all of us-our history.