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Quotes About Culture

I partied in every capital in Europe, basked on all the famous beaches, and good-timed it in South America, the South Seas, the Orient, and the more palatable portions of Africa.
~ Frank Abagnale
When directors like Joe Russo, who understand story from a very global perspective, start working more and more with Chinese filmmakers, you'll start seeing Chinese films that connect with audiences all over Asia, Europe, and South America - maybe even North America.
~ Frank Grillo
I've not been anywhere in Central or South America before. The closest I've been is Cancun and Cabo in Mexico. But I think I'd love the culture, the sprit, and the energy of Brazil.
~ Alesha Dixon
Food is an integral part of Caribbean life - it's diverse just like Caribbean culture, with flavour influences from India, Europe, China, South America and Africa.
~ Ainsley Harriott
We've performed in South America and in Japan.
~ Julie London
I was born in Guyana, South America.
~ Letitia Wright
Everyone always said you have to make it in the States. But I always thought the best way was to make it in South America first.
~ Manu Chao
In the South America of the forties and fifties, everyone was into beauty and glamour and fashion.
~ Mario Testino
When they're singing the guitar lines of songs in South America? Never heard that before. And in Canada, when they're singing all of the lyrics to every song - that blows me away. I don't know all the lyrics to every song.
~ Mike McCready
The Japanese people and their country left a huge impression on my wife and I, and we found it difficult to say goodbye before moving back to South America.
~ Diego Forlan
German football is very different to football in South America.
~ Jupp Heynckes
I come from South America and it's part of our culture to speak out. It's a lot healthier.
~ Gina Miller
I learnt in South America and in Africa that people who have really big problems in the ghetto always keep a sense of humour and remain positive. If not, you go down.
~ Manu Chao
I lived in South America when I was growing up. I spent hours sketching. I was good at drawing, and I was obsessed with fashion, but I was also obsessed with magazines.
~ Nina Garcia
I think Hungarians should be more positive; many complain, but if they go to some countries, in South America, people are so poor, yet they are happy. It starts with you.
~ Judit Polgar
We get to travel to Siberia, Japan, China, Australia, South America and even the little cities all around America. It's probably my favorite thing about being in a band.
~ Max Cavalera
I had siblings from South Asia, from East Asia, from depressed communities around America, and you know, we'd have long conversations.
~ Ronan Farrow
South Carolina is a great place to be from.
~ Tim Scott
My particular lifetime, my individual profile, represents something very basic to African-American history and culture because I was a second generation immigrant, so to speak, from the South. My grandfather was born in South Carolina - well, both grandfathers were born in the South.
~ John Edgar Wideman
I was raised in South Carolina; I wasn't aware of any art in South Carolina. There was a minor museum in Charleston, which had nothing of interest in it. It showed local artists, paintings of birds.
~ Jasper Johns
There was very little art in my childhood. I was raised in South Carolina; I wasn't aware of any art in South Carolina. There was a minor museum in Charleston, which had nothing of interest in it. It showed local artists, paintings of birds.
~ Jasper Johns
I grew up in a small town in coastal South Carolina. Where I'm from, the people are known as Gullah people. They're some of the first freed slaves that lived on their own, without being attached to the rest of the U.S.
~ Brian Stelfreeze
I'm from South Carolina. I'm from a real cultured state, where there's still racism daily. Still, places are segregated.
~ DeAndre Hopkins
My favorite thing about South Korea is the people - they are so kind and helpful.
~ Elana Meyers