Quotes About Culture

If it was Europe, I just picked a country that I hadn't been to, but I didn't try to check up on what was going on in the country or anything like that. I just went and had a good time and met a lot of very nice people who are still my friends.

The level on which Japan seems to have picked up on my music seems to be on a more abstract level.

No one picked on me for my lunch money. Probably because it was the 1980s and no one had lunch money.

Though my grandmother had picked up modern ideas in America, she still had some conflicting 19th-century Irish notions. She believed that daughters, educated though they may be, should continue to live at home until they were married.

I knew from the first moment I picked up a camera, on my first school assignment, what I wanted to do for the rest of my life. I was going to find a way to travel the world and tell the stories of the people I met through photographs.

I'd love to be on an Australian show and in Australian cinemas - they've really picked up their game.

Most of my jewellery is what I picked up in India.

My mother birthed three children and she adopted myself and another African-American son. My adoptive parents were Finnish. I grew up in a white picket neighborhood.

I have lots of gaps in my education, and so I'm often picking up classic books that most people read years ago.

When you go to an art museum, the thing you're least likely to encounter is a picture of a black person. When it comes to ideas about art and about beauty, the black figure is absent.

That which, perhaps, hears more nonsense than anything in the world, is a picture in a museum.

Supermodels are over, and the new picture girl has become the television actress.

I look back at my elementary or high school pictures and I always had gel in my hair and a gold chain that I would wear outside my shirt. That's how I was born and raised as an Italian male, and I always considered myself a Guido, anyway.

Milan is marvellous, picturesque, and full of elegance.

This is the beauty of Rajasthan; everything is so picturesque.

I have been to the South several times. The picturesque locations were a real treat for the eyes and I also love the culture.

I'm from Maine. I eat apple pie for breakfast.

I think 'American Pie' is great.

I'm as American as apple pie.

Influenced by Pete Seeger and the Weavers, McLean proudly wore the mantle of troubadour in the early 1970s, when 'American Pie' topped the Billboard charts, and has never shed the cape.

Don King is as American as apple pie. He is America.

I was around in 1970, and now I am around in 2015 ... there is no poetry and very little romance in anything anymore, so it is really like the last phase of 'American Pie.'

Dissent is as American as cherry pie.

I've got a wife, two kids, a dog and a mini-van. Isn't that disgusting? We're talking Americana, man. Apple pie on the table and everything.