Quotes About Culture

The only things that the United States has given to the world are skyscrapers, jazz, and cocktails. That is all. And in Cuba, in our America, they make much better cocktails.

If I really had to pinpoint my happiest days out of the United States, I'd choose those Fifties military days in Britain, particularly my time in South Ruislip. I had a ball.

I did not intend to stay; I had no experience in the United States - I may have been here less than 24 hours - but I knew I would never get inside there. And 'there' not being America necessarily, but that harmonious mode of living that some people are lucky enough to have in this country.

The United States is a beautiful place, you know?

My British mum met my American dad when she was on holiday in the United States when she was 19. She kinda never looked back. I was born in the United States, raised in Montana and London.

As a Cherokee, I can attest to the fact that Native Americans have been on the losing side of history. Our rights have been infringed upon, our treaties have been broken, our culture has been stolen, and our tribes have been decimated at the hands of our own United States government.

I left Colombia because Univision brought me to the United States.

Everything that has to do with food is sensuous. In the United States, however, we are eating all the time. We have a problem with obesity. And yet, we don't enjoy food that much.

The historical problem of the United States is to admit that it is a multiracial and multi-ethnic nation.

France has become the second-largest consumer of pizza per person, per pound, in the world, behind the United States and ahead of Italy.

There is perhaps no better way to appreciate the dizzying stupidity of the United States than to chat with 25 consecutive morning radio hosts.

Growing up, I didn't realize how unique it was to live on the border of the United States and Mexico. It wasn't until I started doing interviews with the press that I actually began to appreciate just how cool it was that I would cross the international border every single day from Tijuana into San Diego to go to school.

Someone's just told me the English are still trying to take over the United States - is that true?

In the United States, if you're African-American, it can be assumed that your family has been here for generations. In Europe, colonialism is much more alive, and it's assumed you're from Nigeria or Senegal.

This generosity that has been offered to the United States says very much about the Venezuelan spirit.

To me, traveling in the United States isn't that much fun. I like to go elsewhere and experience different cultures.

I think that every minority in the United States of America knows everything about the dominant culture. From the time you can think, you are bombarded with images from TV, film, magazines, newspapers.

The return to the Organization of the United States of America, the bearers of a great and diversified democratic culture that has inspired many other peoples.

Look at what has happened to Miami. It has become a Third World country. You just pick it up and take it and move it someplace. You would never know you're in the United States of America. You would certainly say you're in a Third World country.

There's not a person in the United States of America who doesn't love country or have some kind of tie to it.

In the United States of America, we are so liberal-minded on so many different aspects, but for some reason there's always going to be this weird connection with nudity being a bad thing. Americans can be so prude sometimes.

What is true is that if we do not change the culture of Washington, D.C., the United States of America will cease.

To me, all music that is made under the umbrella of the United States of America is Americana music.

Government and culture are two diametrically opposed forces - the one blinds and oppresses, the other uplifts and unites.