Quotes About Culture

My childhood was very, very, very, very traditional.

I believe in all of these Irish myths, like leprechauns. Not the pot of gold, not the Lucky Charms leprechauns. But maybe was there something in the traditional sense? I believe that this stuff came from somewhere other than people's imaginations.

I don't like all of the contemporary country. I like some of it, but I'm mostly into the traditional style.

People have their cultural reasons for eating meat, their traditional reasons, their likes and dislikes.

It's undeniable that what we are taught as a culture to believe about disability is at odds with traditional notions of masculinity.

There are so many wonderful, wonderful musicians in the world, I cannot possibly make a distinction between the fact that they might play classical music, or bluegrass, or Irish traditional, or Indian music.

I'm trying to go beyond the traditional cliches of an African safari.

I would not call my family 'traditional Chinese.' We were more what I would term the Colonial Chinese.

During the Cultural Revolution, the communists came in, and what they wanted to do was eradicate all sense of traditional Chinese culture.

People are saying I am against the chador. I am not. On the contrary. I am for traditional family values.

We need a nation where traditional family values will get a national platform.

Traditional marriage is what should be sanctioned.

I love traditional music. But in any culture around the world, there is the historic and cultural music and everything that's been passed down and passed down, and hopefully you take that, and then you take it, you know, the next distance, and then somebody else takes it the next distance.

Yes, I was slightly outside everything when I was growing up. My mother jokes that I was exchanged at birth. She brought us up to have traditional values. She was absolutely not part of the '60s generation.

I think where traditional values are concerned, Chinese people see nature as very symbolic. It's a form of culture.

In terms of Republicans, we have got to get to our cohorts in the Republican Party to get them to understand if we are going to get this country to its traditional values... we're going to have to control our borders and manage this huge change in our culture that's occurring.

Throughout history, we have only moved forward when society has distinguished between traditional values and valueless traditions.

With faith and courage, generations of Armenians have overcome great suffering and proudly preserved their culture, traditions, and religion and have told the story of the genocide to an often indifferent world.

Take seriously the traditions, the Christian roots, and all the values that are the basis of the civilisation of Europe.

We are under attack. Our culture, society, traditions, and way of life are at risk.

That's why we're doing this, to defend our traditions a little. I don't have anything against it (Halloween), but it's not our tradition.

We are part of an inspiringly colorful mosaic of cultures and traditions. I will nurture this pluralism.

Every culture has something to be ashamed of, but every culture also has the right to change, to challenge negative traditions, and create to new ones.

Growing up, I was brought up around Irish music, Irish traditions.