Quotes About Culture

I didn't know folk music growing up, no. It's something I've come to study, really, because I think there's so much to learn from traditional music in the sense of the way music began as a way of communication, the traveling storyteller, the bard, the minstrels.

Drugs have taught an entire generation of American kids the metric system.

Always read the stuff that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it.

My wife and I both come from Irish families. There are two kinds of Irish families: the hitting kind and the kidding kind. If you're fortunate - and both of us are - you come from the kidding kind of Irish family.

I suppose I should get a VCR, but the only thing I like about television is its ephemerality.

Always read something that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it.

There's a certain kind of behavior in the Arab world that, to me, resembles the way young men behave when there is no significant influence from women in their lives.

Every wrong seems possible today, and is accepted. I don't accept it.

What a great language I have, it's a fine language we inherited from the fierce Conquistadors…. They carried everything off and left us everything…. They left us the words.

But from each hollow of SpainSpain comes forth.

Os militares não dão cultura ao povo, porque se o povo tivesse cultura não os aceitaria.

because we live in Mexico City, we make rounds with the spirits of Huitzilopochtli

Vendrán de París las modas y los libros; los pasteles de Hungría, la ilustración de Viena; peluqueros a bandadas, cocineros en montón. Se ordenará que los chicos se olviden del español, y que las beatas recen en la lengua de Voltaire, pero sólo la lengua, no la lectura, porque esa seguirá siendo perniciosa.

luego. No podía ser un chino en general, tenía que ser un chino de Sinaloa, un local de Mexicali, o uno de la calle Dolores en el df. Voy a añadir eso la próxima vez que lo cuente —dijo Macario.

En México, las traiciones, como los cojones y los ovarios, vienen de a pares.

90% of Deaf people who marry choose a Deaf partner. By contrast, most people with disabilities do not see it as a priority or even desirable to marry within the group. 14

I'm an immigrant kid who came to America from India when I was very young and grew up in New York City with a single mom and really was influenced by all of those immigrant cultures bumping up against each other.

Like many immigrants, I had always kept my Eastern and Western lives compartmentalized.

Collective memory, the foundation of any culture's narrative, is a historical; mythology, laces with figments of truth, is essential to forming a country's founding identity and maintaining social cohesion.

This is what you learned in college: A man desires the satisfaction of his desire; a woman desires the condition of desiring.

Conversations in French bubble around me like a long-forgotten perfume I am desperate to inhale. Familiar words trickle back, first in a stream then a river, though I've scarcely heard them in half a century.

Not all Americans talk like me. The states in America are kind of like your countries over here,

Pont Neuf, the oldest bridge in Paris.

made the fact that we were Jews undeniable.