Quotes About Culture

Speaking French is good for me and also a mark of respect for the PSG institution.

When you hear someone from the very north of Scotland speaking, I think its nice, very musical and harmonious.

My grandfather came over from Puerto Rico and raised his kids speaking English so that it would be easier for them to assimilate.

There is a pride in speaking this language.

Because some people have sex with people of the same sex, an entire culture has been created, broadly speaking, out of oppression. Which in a rational world would not be an issue.

I'm very aware when I'm speaking to the English of how flat my Mid-Atlantic American voice is.

Jazz has an audience all around the globe and has had for many decades, I think speaking of the United States, let's say that what we need is more of an official recognition.

So I've never found there was any particular separation between the two cultures at all, musically speaking.

English should be our official language. Reading and speaking English are requirements to become a citizen.

My flow follows sometimes what's going on in the hip-hop industry even though I'm speaking Jamaican patois.

I grew up speaking both languages, and for me that's really important.

When I speak to people from Britain, that's when I feel like a fake, speaking with an American accent.

If only Coca-Cola had had the kind of message to accompany its addictive deliciousness that Fox News has, we'd all be speaking Cokelish today.

The Muslim population in India is, largely speaking, not radicalised. From the beginning, they were always very secular-minded.

I grew up listening to people speaking broken English. I probably picked that up. And I probably speak English almost as a second language.

Generally speaking, I don't think people know a great deal about the Viking culture, apart from the label that is usually attached to them, either pillagers or deviants who came and brought back loot to Norway. It was an incredibly sophisticated, complex and layered culture. They had their own laws, many of which protected women.

In the 1960s, there was a forward way of speaking and inflection.

English is my language because of the history, and what I try to do - and I did that in 'Carpentaria' in particular - is to write in the way we tell stories and in the voice of our own people and our own way of speaking.

When I was a kid, I resented my grandparents not speaking the perfect English I wanted to speak.

When I was a child, I grew up speaking French, I mean, in a French public school. So my first contact with literature was in French, and that's the reason why I write in French.

I speak English. I grew up speaking Bengali. This is the normal, the known, the obvious composition of who I am. Then there's Italian, this strange, other component of me that I've just created. It was a creative process just to learn the language, never mind to start expressing myself in it.

Being partly Italian or, rather, having an Italian last name, I've always dreamed of really becoming partly Italian, of eating piles of mouthwatering fettuccine in the piazza, speaking a language that demands music over mumble, and yes, if I'm honest, perhaps dressing a little better.

Its roots are in American Negro culture, which is part of the whole country's heritage, but the dance speaks to everyone... Otherwise, it wouldn't work.

Psychographics speaks more to an attitude, a lifestyle.