Quotes About Culture

I think that most New Yorkers would object to calling me a New Yorker. I didn't grow up here.

As a New Yorker you can't help but be proud of the fact that so much music and culture started here. Punk rock, jazz, hip-hop and house music started here, George Gershwin debuted 'Rhapsody in Blue' here; the Velvet Underground are from New York.

Unless you're born here, I don't know if you can ever become a full New Yorker.

No one knows restaurants like a New Yorker - they're incredibly discerning and restaurant savvy.

I knew I didn't want to come out in the 'New Yorker'; it just felt wrong. It needed an African conversation.

I grew up in New York City - I grew up surrounded by every sound that you imagine can come from a New Yorker. All of the different boroughs and all of the different sounds.

I've little in common with the scene in Silicon Valley and San Francisco. I'm a New Yorker.

I don't see myself as either Irish or American, I'm a New Yorker.

I've always just considered myself a New Yorker, you know.

I'm a fourth-generation New Yorker. My family has been in New York for many, many years.

I feel like I'm a New Yorker to the bone. But there is a lot of the South in me. I know there is a lot of the South in my mannerisms. There's a lot of the South in my expectations of other people and how people treat each other. There's a lot of the South in the way I speak, but it could never be home.

Being a New Yorker and someone that goes to MoMA as a patron, I want it to be good.

My family goes way back in New York. So I am a New Yorker; I feel like a New Yorker. It's in my bones.

I was such a New Yorker, I hardly knew what the Oscars were.

You'll see every kind of New Yorker in there. You really feel like you're in the belly of the beast when you're in Union Square.

They do not eat Yorkshire pudding on Sunday in Iowa.

I'm such an odd mix of things. My grandfather was Indian: I've got more family living in India than I do in the U.K. My old man was East London. I was brought up in Yorkshire. My great-grandfather was Irish.

The musical heritage of Yorkshire is deep and wide.

I like Yorkshire Tea - very strong and English.

Whenever I go abroad, I never return home craving roast beef and Yorkshire pudding or fish and chips. Instead all I really want is a particularly good lamb dopiaza.

Anyone who has been born in Yorkshire is very proud of it. It's something that's embedded in your character.

I cannot stand when you go to a wedding and get fed tiny portions. I want everyone to have a good feed on my wedding day, so I plan on having several types of sausage, mash, and gravy up for grabs. Every guest will have a Yorkshire pudding, too!

I grew up in Yorkshire, which is like the Texas of Britain. It's a proud free state and not always liked by the other counties in Britain.

In my bones, I feel like a Scot. I always have. My mum's from Doncaster, so whatever that is as a combination of Scotland and Yorkshire. It isn't southern.