Quotes About Culture

People do think I'm Jewish. But we're Irish Catholic. My father had a brogue.

My father always says that heroism is in the Pashtun DNA.

I'm half Hawaiian and the haka is a very sacred thing, something your family teaches you - my father taught me.

My father moved to Hawaii from Brooklyn and my mother came there as a child from the Philippines. They met at a show where my dad was playing percussion. My mom was a hula dancer.

My father was a painter and he taught art. He once said to me, 'I never knew an Indian child who could not draw.'

Though my father was Norwegian, he always wrote his diaries in perfect English.

We are Muslims. My father would pawn off his Muslim in-laws as Hindus just so that he could get free pancakes.

The North African mule talks always of his mother's brother, the horse, but never of his father, the donkey, in favor of others supposedly more reputable.

My father did irrigation jobs, and I would sometimes accompany him, and that gave me a taste of what was going on in the innards of India.

Our fathers gave us many laws which they had learned from their fathers. These laws were good.

I was raised in Chicago, so always used Latina. It's what my Father and brothers called ourselves, when we meant the entire Spanish-speaking community of Chicago.

My father had a varied ear, from Hank Williams to Ravel.

My father is Jaime Rodriguez from San Antonio, Texas, and I've got one whole half of my family that's Mexican through and through.

I know what tablas sound like, because my father played a lot of Ustad Ali Akbar Khan.

My mother's family came from the British West Indies. And my father's family came from, well, my father's father came from the Montana/South Dakota area. They were Blackfoot Indian.

My family is part Creole, and were Indian, and were also very, very black. My father was so black, he was blue.

I know Italians and I like them. A lot of my father's best friends were Italians.

My mother is a Muslim - she walks five steps behind my father. She doesn't have to. He just looks better from behind.

My father used to say that, through culture, humans effectively domesticated themselves.

Jews who long have drifted from the faith of their fathers... are stirred in their inmost parts when the old, familiar Passover sounds chance to fall upon their ears.

Mothers are a biological necessity; fathers are a social invention

Southern women often marry a man knowing that he is the father of many little slaves. They do not trouble themselves about it.

I had grown up in a privileged, upper-caste Hindu community; and because my father worked for a Catholic hospital, we lived in a prosperous Christian neighborhood.

My father is quite conservative and religious, and hes been wanting me to get married since I was 15.