Quotes About Culture

National borders have always been arbitrarily drawn by people, and in ancient times there was a lot of exchange of people and culture with the continent.

I read everything from comics to magazines to fiction - I learned to read in English, years before being able to speak a word of it, by reading 'National Geographic.'

It's both Indiana Jones and 'National Geographic' that inspired me to be an Egyptologist.

The Euro-bureaucrats are destroying every bit of national identity and individuality.

Our national identity is so interwoven with football.

Early on, New York already had a national and even international identity.

I grew up in an international school community my whole life, and my national identity is very confused, so I grew up listening to music from all around the world.

Food is national security. Food is craft. Food is everything, when you think about it.

I'm third generation. I was born in Germany, grew up in Germany, and many of my friends are German. I love playing for Germany. I'm proud I can play for the national team.

Well, Italy is huge for me. I've been going back every summer, not just to see my family, but play with the Italian National Team. So, Italy plays a huge role in my life. It will always play a huge role in my life.

It had never been a decision to choose between the French national team or the Senegalese national team because I was growing up in France and playing in the French youth national team, so it was something really normal.

The cool thing about China is that they really put a lot of value on their national team.

It's ironic that the growth of Scottish nationalism has precipitated in the English the sort of hand-wringing the Scots have always done over who they are.

Why is Mexican nationalism a good thing, but putting American interests first needs defending?

My parents' generation grew up high on the Arab nationalism that Egyptian president Gamal Abdel Nasser brandished in the 1950s.

It is not white nationalism to recognize limiting principles on liberal universalism, and a justifiable role for particularity - ethnic, cultural, religious - in many political arrangements.

I am, as a European, absolutely shocked by European people. I am also shocked by European nationalist people. They have allowed themselves to be so emasculated so silently.

It would, of course, be hopeless to attempt to crowd into an international language all those local overtones of meaning which are so dear to the heart of the nationalist.

I read every one of the books on the shelf marked American Negro Literature. I became a nationalist, a colour nationalist, through the writings of men and women who lived a world away from me.

Some people don't understand that football is universal. It doesn't have a race or nationality. It's one group of people.

Authors have a nationality; books do not.

I might live in Manhattan or Edinburgh or Cardiff. I think of myself as without nationality.

I feel very comfortable in New York, in a city where there is no such thing as 'nationality.'

I come from an immigrant family, but I know no other nationality apart from British.