American culture Quote by James Lafferty

Visual presentation of our heritage in glass is needed.

— James Lafferty

Those who sit in a glass house do wrong to throw stones about them; besides, the American glass house is rather thin, it will…

— Emma Goldman

Glass is the most magical of all materials. It transmits light in a special way...Im pleased that my art appeals to so many people…

— Dale Chihuly

“A very civilized thing, glass—almost an index of civilization. When civilization retreats, it leaves behind broken glass.”

— John Derbyshire

Stained glass enabled the modern world.

— Kiki Smith

“CHAPTER I—THE HISTORY OF A PROGRESS IN BLACK GLASS TRINKETS”

— Victor Hugo

American culture is kind of a universal culture, I guess. It's things Greeks grew up with, common references you can use. It's very interesting.

— Yorgos Lanthimos

The cultural products of America from this period [ fifties and sixties] are like a vision of paradise or something. I find it utterly intoxicating.

— Quentin S. Crisp

with a touch of sarcasm. “Glass is an amazing material. Versatile,

— Maria V. Snyder

“[Americans] were, for one thing, so smitten with the idea of progress that they invented things without having any idea whether those things would…

— Bill Bryson

“A real alchemical laboratory should be full of the kind of glassware that looked as if it were produced during the Guild of Glassblowers…

— Terry Pratchett

But it must not be forgotten that ... glass and porcelain were manufactured, stuffs dyed and metals separated from their ores by mere empirical…

— Justus von Liebig