Quotes About Culture

Detroit is a great deli city. If only GM could learn from what the delis in Detroit are doing! The best rye bread anywhere - double-baked, crispy, warm rye that they serve their sandwiches with - and great corned beef. It's a passionate deli town.

I feel warm toward my Irish side, but I don't know the country or the people. Hearing a traditional Irish fiddle, I feel very connected to Ireland, but that's a nostalgia many people feel who aren't Irish at all.

There's something innately funny and warm about being Jewish. I think it's something to be embraced and respected.

I love being Southern because of the people and the fans we have. People down here are more friendly - really warm people.

I have a thing for clean lines and beautiful form that I attribute to my four years in Tokyo and Kyoto. I also appreciate traditional architecture and a warm palette that I think my Midwest upbringing has something to do with.

We get the impression through film and TV that Americans are violent gangsters with guns or upper-middle-class people in romcoms. I really liked the people. They were really warm. They could have been Brits. I mean that in the nicest possible way.

I've always found Glasgow to be a wonderful city - warm and funny and full of kindness.

I like Singapore; it is very clean. People speak English and are warm.

Ceremony and ritual are like a warm, fuzzy coat to the Brits. It feels good to put it on.

Chennai has always been special to me. I love the food here and people are so warm.

Even after witnessing an inflow of a large number of people from other states, Gujaratis haven't changed and are still warm and loving.

I've hung out and performed with many Native American musicians, and my experience is that the first peoples of this land are incredibly open, warm and forgiving.

The people there are so warm, and I tasted many delicious dishes in Madurai.

The point is that there is tremendous hypocrisy among the Christian right. And I think that Christian voters should start looking at global warming and extreme poverty as a religious issue that speaks to the culture of life.

Why are we so obsessed with celebrity culture? We have front-page news about divorces instead of front-page news about global warming, about women being abused, about children being abused. We're going on a downward spiral.

I don't like turkey. I mean, I do. But I don't like it on Thanksgiving. I don't need it. There are about 20 other dishes that get put on a table or a counter or that stay warming on the stove that I'd rather eat than turkey.

As the 20th century unspooled, a cultural warming melted down many frozen class characteristics.

There's an African proverb that I always quote as I think it's incredible which is, 'if the children are not initiated into the village, then they'll burn it down just to feel its warmth.'

I am very bullish on India because of its people, its culture, and the leadership. I love the culture and warmth of people.

I can't understand Urdu, Bahasa or Russian, but when the Pakistani Faiz, the Indonesian Rendra and the Russian Rosdentvensky declaim, I can feel the living throb of rhythm and music, the warmth and passion of their poetry, as do the hundreds, not a mere roomful, of poetry lovers in the audience.

Everywhere we go, we make sure that PAL displays the warmth, hospitality, and everything that is good about the Philippines and its people.

Mumbai and its people are full of warmth and love - it has the best qualities of all the cities in India.

I have a bit two overlapping personalities. I have my African half that gives me the hot blood and the warmth and the exuberance, and then I have my French side, which is quite a bit more reserved. It's not always easy to reconcile the two.

The Brazilians are amazing in their nature. You cannot describe it; you must feel that warmth when you're around them to understand.