Quotes About Culture

It is commercial pop that the majority of people understand. A working man's daughter would not understand blues.

Pakistan is the sort of place every man should send his mother-in-law, for a month, with all expenses paid.

I come from a Greek household. My mother wouldn't let the FedEx man come in without eating.

That's so different in Hong Kong when I'm using my own mother language, I can treat the line in one thousand different ways, with many different reactions.

My dad is a retired Shakespeare professor, my mother a retired classicist. Suffice to say I grew up in a house full of books, where reading was encouraged if not required.

Every year when it's Chinese New Year here in New York, there are fireworks going off at all hours. New York mothers calm their frightened children by telling them it's just gunfire.

The interest of my mother was more in the entertainment field. She loved to go to concerts and to the theatre.

My mother insisted that her children read.

My mother is Italian and my dad's Irish. In my family, we're expressive. Nobody holds back.

Sean Óg ó Hailpín.... his father's from Fermanagh, his mother's from Fiji, neither a hurling stronghold.

You come home to find your 17-year-old daughter engrossed in a book. Which would delight you more - if it were 'Twilight' or 'Middlemarch?'

On my mother's side I'm Polish-Jewish, and on my father's side I'm Scottish puffin.

My mother is Greek and my father is Bulgarian. I am a first-generation American and native Los Angeleno. I was born and raised in Hollywood.

The joke used to be that in every Indian home, there is the mother, father, children, grandparents, and the anthropologist.

I'm often a crier and many things make me cry. I come from a crying family - my mother cries, my grandma used to cry. It was never shameful to cry. My father never told me men don't cry.

I'm a full-blooded Mexican. My mother was born in Zacatecas, Mexico, and my father - the son of Mexican immigrants - was born near Fresno, California.

Tribe cats are named after the first thing their mother sees, but I thing this would lead to a lot of kits being named 'wall of cave', 'side of cave' and 'floor of cave

I hope people have pulled something about me and said "Hey Mr. T loves his mother, hey Mr. T ain't no dummy, hey Mr. T never grabbed his crotch," when you're talking about Hip-Hop culture.

When I was in south Sudan, people used to rap in my village. But the rapping was more in the mother tongue, Nuer.

My mother was Canadian, so you never knew what she was thinking.

I use the phrase 'sibling society' to suggest a culture fundamentally without fathers, mothers, grandfathers, grandmothers, or ancestors. The thinking is horizontal.

The awe and dread with which the untutored savage contemplates his mother-in-law are amongst the most familiar facts of anthropology.

When I was in second grade, my mother moved from Miami to this evangelical conservative environment in western North Carolina, two miles down the road from Billy Graham and his wife, Ruth.

I live in Paris but I feel I am a daughter of Europe.