Shanghai/culture

Famous quotes containing the words shanghai and/or culture:

“It took more than one man to change my name to Shanghai Lily.”
—Jules Furthman (1888–1960)

“When we want culture more than potatoes, and illumination more than sugar-plums, then the great resources of a world are taxed and drawn out, and the result, or staple production, is, not slaves, nor operatives, but men,—those rare fruits called heroes, saints, poets, philosophers, and redeemers.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)