Quotes About Culture

I grew up listening to gospel. That was the only thing that I had reference to because that was what my family was involved with.

I warn black Americans'don't get too mixed. A little is fine, but not to the point where you're out of the family.

My family is really, really Southern - I had two uncle Bubbas, and grandparents that we called Big Mama and Big Daddy.

I really find that with Judaism, it creates an amazing blueprint for family connectivity.

I'm really in touch with my Italian roots. My mom's whole side of the family is there.

Education, family, character, intelligence, humility, okay? These are the things that make a culture live.

The erosion of extended family concept and losing out on values are the two things that are primarily responsible for the growing mismatch in the parent-child relationship.

Religion is so much more than the god you pray to. The religion that you associate with, it's culture, it is family, it is background. That is something that I have always grown up with.

We talk about what's important to Hispanics: education, family, creating an environment in which you can achieve what you want to achieve because there aren't going to be obstacles in your way.

They are doing away with drive-ins. Now where are the teenagers going to go to not watch a movie?

I want you to know how I feel about my Italian heritage so I'd like to say a few words in Italian: Verdi Pavarotti DiMaggio Valentino De Niro Giuliani. . .

I've never left China. My family's been there for 600 years. But my architecture is not consciously Chinese in any sense. I'm a western architect.

Family entertainment is really very necessary in our culture. Look how profitable they are. It's almost not discretionary. You need to take your family to the movies.

School is something that you learn - reading and writing. Education is what you learn from the family, from the environment, from the community.

I also had this mistaken dream, fantasy really - perhaps because I'm good at languages - of being able in both Italy and France to become someone else through my fluency in the language.

There's a lot of fantasy about what Scotland is, and the shortbread tins and that sort of thing.

If you look at any ancient civilization, they've all used fantasy stories to train the young.

Big writers become a kind of shared climate.

It is television's primary damage that it provides ten million children with the same fantasy, ready-made and on a platter.

In a strange city, I connect through food and fantasy.

There's always been this strand of filmmaking in Britain which is like socialist neo-realism. That's always been there. I've never been part of that, really; I've been much closer to fantasy.

If the arts are held up solely as a means of social insight, fantasy is denied the chance to be commonplace and reality the chance to be exotic.

Women, music, beer, and pie. Rurik, you're just an all-American guy.

Like my father I, too, was born in Central America - Nebraska.