Quotes About Culture

Ultimately, my connection to my Indian-ness comes back to my mom and dad. They would all tell me and my siblings stories about their life in India, so it was very close to my two brothers and my sister and I.

My mother's a Peruvian Indian from Lima who raised me and my four brothers and sisters as a single mom.

You're defined by your older brothers' or sisters' music.

Going out in Paris was like going out in the '30s dressed like the Andrews Sisters. It was everything I'd seen in books at my grandparents' house, only it was our generation.

My two elder sisters married Englishmen and went abroad.

My first novel, 'You Must be Sisters,' was started in Pakistan. I've wrote several novels and a TV drama set or partly-set there.

Americans and French are notoriously monolingual, especially earlier generations. Language is a sense of pride in both cultures. I think that the French and Americans are like brothers or sisters who are so similar that they irritate one another.

I learned everything I know about music from my parents and my sisters.

My mother was born in Ghana, but she moved to the U.K. when my sisters and I were born.

People often expect that I should know a lot of things because I'm black. I don't really explain it to people, but it's like, I'm from Australia, my Mum's Aussie, and I grew up with five other Aussie brothers and sisters.

I was raised by a woman and I'm the middle child of two sisters who are young Black women.

It comes from within to not be ashamed of our brothers and sisters who have accents.

Growing up in a Mediterranean household ruined my tastebuds a little bit because my mom, my sisters, and my aunt were all great cooks, and ever since I went plant-based, I've been missing a little bit of that Mediterranean affection.

Portugal and Brazil have a history but we're brothers and sisters. They are very passionate people, especially about MMA - just as Brazilians are passionate about MMA.

I, along with my sisters Neeti and Mukti, did my schooling from BITS Pilani in the Shekhawati region. So, I am very well aware of Rajasthan, its culture, life, heritage, music, food and everything it is famous for. And it's no exaggeration to say that Rajasthan gave me the best childhood memories.

My mum used to play afrobeats, my dad used to play Caribbean, my sisters and brothers played hip-hop.

My late husband's family is not something I sit around and discuss at cocktail parties.

I think Canadians are great satirists because we sit in the middle of these two giants: Great Britain and the U.S.

My goal is for 'The Bill Engvall Show' to be a show the networks look at and say, 'Ooh, maybe we should get back to the family sitcom.'

You know as well as I do that the family sitcom was the stalwart of TV for God knows how many decades.

Your average sitcom writer is a very intellectual person.

Being Orthodox Jewish is kind of like being raised on like network sitcoms.

I like to read the news, but when I pull up a Japanese site, and an article comes up with my face, I never read it.

For me, those little cinemas in Paris where I saw many art films for the first time meant that cinema became a kind of pilgrimage site.