Quotes About Culture

difference between an American and an Englishman. An Englishman thinks a hundred miles is a long way; an American thinks a hundred years is a long time.

Jamie replied with what I had come to think of as a "Scottish noise," that indeterminate sound made low in the throat that can be interpreted to mean almost anything. This particular noise seemed to indicate some doubt as to the likelihood of such a desirable outcome.

seemed a bit unsanitary to be burying people in the marketplace.

Did the ancient Gaels not wear undergarments? Frank leered. You've never heard that old song about what a Scotsman wears beneath his kilts?

Boxing the Jesuit?" Stephan nudged Grey with an elbow, and raised thick blond brows in puzzlement. "Cockroaches? What does this mean, please?" "Ahhh…" Having no notion of the German equivalent of this expression, Grey resorted to a briefly graphic gesture with one hand, looking over his shoulder to be sure that none of the women was watching. "Oh!" Von Namtzen looked mildly startled, but then grinned widely. "I see, yes, very good!

Probably from Norse roots. There's a lot of the Norse influence round here, and all the way up the coast to the West. Some of the place names are Norse, you know, not Gaelic at all.

the Two Brothers stone, and that was Norse, wasn't it?

Oh, well. There's a dance in the States, called the Shag. I gather I shouldn't ask you to do it with me here, though." "Not unless you mean it

Scots have long memories, and they're not the most forgiving of people.

He took my arm, and bowed formally. "And may I have the pleasure to present to you my wife, Claire?" he said aloud, shifting effortlessly into French. "Claire?" The Governor looked wildly at me. "Claire?" "Er, yes," I said, hoping he wasn't going to faint. He looked very much as though he might, though I had no idea why the revelation of my Christian name ought to affect him so strongly.

French, spoken by a number of people at a distance, strongly resembles the quacking conversation of ducks and geese, with its nasal elements. English, on the other hand, has a slower pace, and much less rise and fall in its intonations. Spoken at a distance where individual voices are impossible to distinguish, it has the gruff, friendly monotony of a sheepdog's barking.

Englishman thinks a hundred miles is a long way; an American thinks a hundred years is a long time.

Creo que cualquier lugar en el que viva gente durante mucho tiempo probablemente absorba una parte de ellos. No hay duda de que las casas afectan a las personas que viven en ellas

So happen back fifty years, the Mohawk took and adopted the whole tribe of the Tuscarora. Don't many tribes speak exactly the same language," Myers explained. "But some are closer than others. Tuscarora's more like the Mohawk than 'tis like the Creek or the Cherokee.

I would ask the one thing of ye, lad—let it be the English. Not your ain folk.

An Englishman thinks a hundred miles is a long way; an American thinks a hundred years is a long time.

We keep it so to remember," he said. "To show to the weans, and tell them when they ask—this is what the English are.

Hopefully I can do well and I hope tennis can get bigger in Japan and Asia. That's my goal.

I think the woman's side has been much better in Asia.

I'm incredibly close to my family and I think family is such an important thing, in Asian culture especially.

I hope my daughter will be able to see shows starring Asian people that has nothing to do with an Asian story.

I grew up very American but also fully Asian.

I feel more Asian than anything.

The Asian culture has to be a part of what we see on TV and in movies.