Quotes About Culture

Basically, coming up, listening to Cash Money and Master P, and my mother would listen to Sade and Erykah Badu, things like that. I didn't like that music back then, but now, I guess, to look for soothing music or tones, you know, I would look to that, and I would love to do something with Sade or Erykah Badu.

Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.

My mother tongue is Telugu. I was born and brought up in Tamil Nadu.

I think in my mother tongue. That's Hindi.

Marathi is my mother tongue; there's a certain comfort level speaking in it.

Foreign languages was the only thing that interested me when I was at school, so playing in another language... it is quite demanding because if it is not your mother tongue, you are missing some connotations and some emotional depth of certain things.

Study a foreign language if you have opportunity to do so. You may never be called to a land where that language is spoken, but the study will have given you a better understanding of your own tongue or of another tongue you may be asked to acquire.

I am very comfortable doing Bengali films because it's my mother tongue, which enables me to emote well, and my home is there too.

I must confess... I don't know any tongue but the Nether-Dutch.

I don't know Bengali perfectly. I don't know how to write it or even read it. I have an accent, I speak without authority, and so I've always perceived a disjunction between it and me. As a result, I consider my mother tongue, paradoxically, a foreign language.

My mother tongue, Mende, is very expressive, very figurative, and when I write, I always struggle to find the English equivalent of things that I really want to say in Mende. For example, in Mende, you wouldn't say 'night came suddenly'; you would say 'the sky rolled over and changed its sides.'

I speak English, so I am no longer cute. My tongue itches for French.

Spanglish is a creative way also of saying, 'I am an American, and I have my own style, my own taste, my own tongue.'

When I take my free-kicks, I think in Portuguese, and at most, I'll do the celebrating in my native tongue.

My primary tongue, I would call North-West Mercian.

Hindi is my mother tongue. Even though I do not get to use it as often, it's still a part of me.

Now they're getting so politically correct you can't even stick your tongue out at somebody.

I'm from the South, and there's a different understanding of how to chop. There's a syllable play. It's a delicate art. Your accent has a lot to do with it. If you're from a certain area, words don't roll of your tongue as slick.

I do fear for the generations of people who came of age thinking that pop-punk is what punk is, and that all the rebellion you need is just to stick your tongue out in the mirror every once in a while.

What is Americanization? It manifests itself, in a superficial way, when the immigrant adopts the clothes, the manners and the customs generally prevailing here. Far more important is the manifestation presented when he substitutes for his mother tongue the English language as the common medium of speech.

Having portrayed English-speaking Indian characters in British and American projects, I have always wanted to use my mother tongue in an Indian film.

My mother tongue is German.

My grandmother lived under Japanese colonial rule until she was nine. Korea, still united and whole, was colonized in 1910. During this period of forced occupation, Japanese teachers taught Korean students how to view the world through their imperialist language, their history, their foreign tongue.

Tamil is my mother tongue.