Quotes About Culture

The alphabet was invented in Iraq, so it's a cool place.

In societies where coolness and being cool is a top priority, the religious replace the word 'religious' with 'spiritual' to make their faiths seem less extreme.

It might have been really cool back in the '50s when it was less populated but I don't know.

There's something really cool about being able to fly to South Africa and watch one of the most talented African footballers wearing a shoe on the field.

The courage to be yourself is the essence of hip hop

A decline in courage may be the most striking feature that an outside observer notices in the West today.

Insolent youth rides, now, in the whirlwind. For those modern iconoclasts who are without culture possess, apparently, all the courage.

In Chinese the word for crisis is weiji composed of the character wei which means danger and ji which means opportunity.

I'm a polygamist. I can afford to have as many wives as I can afford to have. All Africans believe in it. My dad has four wives.

I guess I learnt to appreciate old Hindi-movie music from my dad and somewhere down the line picked up jazz as well.

My dad is a minister, and my mum is a worker with the less fortunate and the disabled. They're Nigerian natives. Their first language is Yoruba, and their second language is English.

You might be a redneck if you give your dad a gallon of Pepto-Bismol for his birthday.

My dad's Russian. My mother's English. I would say my bottom half is Russian.

Going to the theater is such a joyous experience. My dad would take my sister and me to plays when we were very young, like six or seven years old.

My dad is a Deadhead, my mom's a Jewish-American princess from Jersey.

Although I grew up in London, I spent summers in Missouri, where my dad lived. It's quite a liberal town, Kansas City. You'd be surprised.

I got a little bit of the Marine mentality from my dad, I guess. You can't but help absorb the culture you're around.

People in Finland have also adopted me because of my dad, and that's great, but it's the one language I can't speak.

Dad was at his desk when I opened the door, doing what all British people do when they're freaked out: drinking tea.

My dad's half-Lebanese, my mom is full Lebanese. I'm three-quarters Lebanese. Irish-Lebanese.

My mother and dad played the fiddle and the guitar.

I lived in Texas for 10 years. There were a lot of people chewing, including my dad.

My mom and dad would take me all over. One night we'd be at the Apollo watching James Brown, and then I'd be at the Joffrey Ballet. It was that kind of scene.

Mum doesn't like it when I mention that Dad's a better cook than her. He was born in Spain and spent eight years in Portugal and is exceptional at lots of cuisines.