Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes

I am very happy since when I am in different cities I can experience and learn different cultures!

Those who visit foreign nations, but associate only with their own country-men, change their climate, but not their customs. They see new meridians, but the same men; and with heads as empty as their pockets, return home with traveled bodies, but untravelled minds.

We just kind saw the images and knew the cliches, so to have the opportunity to go there and learn something about Russian music and about Russian people and to see things apart from being a tourist.

Travelers never think that they are the foreigners

Getting access to diverse civilizations should be easy, and languages are the gateway to that.

I always used to say hybrids would rule the world - people who have an understanding of many cultures and can relate to them with ease. And then along came Obama.

Living abroad has heightened my interest in how foreigners regard the strange places we encounter.

I wanted to introduce a contemporary Asia to a North American audience.

It's wonderful to learn about new cultures and to be able to travel easily to so many countries.

I'm a little like Marco Polo, going around and mixing cultures.

I've got tremendous respect for different cultures, for the food and everything.

It's always overwhelming when you come to another country and you're embraced in such a positive way.

We live in a global society today where all our cultures intermingle.

National culture can act as a bridge, instead of an obstacle, to mutual spiritual and intellectual understanding.

I was lucky to move around different cultures at an early age and have experience of different lifestyles.

I think the best part of learning a language is that you can see the country's culture through the language. And it gives you different levels of understanding of that culture when you really try to dig in and learn it.

The experience of travelling, getting familiar with other languages, other cultures definitely helps. It makes you a better person.

I think once you understand a language, you understand the culture surrounding it as well.

I've been exposed to so many different cultures.

I think it's important that the English culture changes a little bit and we do start to go abroad and step out of our comfort zone.

I understand different cultures because I have travelled a lot.

I wholeheartedly believe that travel leads to open minds and contributes to a better cultural understanding and acceptance of people from around the world.

Little things like that when you go to another country is so welcoming. You meet someone, they're so jolly, they speak the language, it really helps.

Who better than an Irishman can understand the Indians, while still being stirred by tales of the US cavalry?

It's a wonderful thing to see a segment of our population that is open and eager to learn more about Chinese culture. It has filtered into the mainstream. You see credit-card ads on TV with white couples and Chinese babies.