Quotes About Culture

I vowed to never use my American accent, and I didn't. Even going to get the paper in the morning to buying milk down at the shop, getting a cab, wherever.

I love classical music and often listen to symphonies or opera in the morning.

I started as a tap dancer in Durban, which is on the coast. That was an important part of growing up, turning on the radio in the morning and hearing Zulu singing or the news in Zulu.

I dream of a morning when Filipinos can wake up from the centuries-long sleep that took them from their past and denied them their destiny as a people.

Become familiar with your home, but know also about your neighbors. The young man who never went anywhere thinks his mother is the greatest cook.

A people's relationship to their heritage is the same as the relationship of a child to its mother.

Athens, the eye of Greece, mother of arts And eloquence.

I was eating in a Chinese restaurant downtown. There was a dish called Mother and Child Reunion. It's chicken and eggs. And I said, I gotta use that one.

The greatest missionary is the Bible in the mother tongue. It needs no furlough and is never considered a foreigner.

Housekeepers, homemakers, wives, and mothers are fundamental social relations, which rest upon woman's characteristics, physical, mental, and moral.

For us Indians, I don't think English can ever exude that magic of emotions which our mother tongue can.

For I am my mother's daughter, and the drums of Africa still beat in my heart.

Women are the victims of this patriarchal culture, but they are also its carriers. Let us keep in mind that every oppressive man was raised in the confines of his mother's home.

I think it's important to be sincere. And I could be the most sincere just staying in [my] mother language actually. And that's the reason why I stay composing and writing in French.

This universe can very well be expressed in words and syllables which are not those of one's mother tongue.

I am not ashamed to reply to you in my mother tongue, however imperfectly, and am glad to be able to show that my fatherland means more to me than anything else

When I was growing up, my mother would take me to plays and museums, and we'd talk about life. Those times helped shape who I became.

The fact of simultaneously being Christian and having as my mother tongue Arabic, the holy language of Islam, is one of the basic paradoxes that have shaped my identity.

I didn't know at first that there were two languages in Canada.I just thought that there was one way to speak to my father and another to talk to my mother.

To live in Australia permanently is rather like going to a party and dancing all night with one's mother.

I always knew that food and wine were vital, with my mother being Italian and a good cook.

The mother tongue is propaganda.

I'm the daughter of two Indian immigrant doctors, and I have an older sister and younger brother, and none of us have pursued medicine as a career. We're all over the artistic side of things.

I come from an interracial family: My father is from Nigeria, and so he is African-American, and my mother is American and white, so I rarely see skin color. It's never an issue for me.