Quotes About Culture

I could lie and say my wife cooks for me, but she doesn't. My wife has never learnt cooking but she has great cooks at home.

He said that if culture is a house, then language was the key to the front door; to all the rooms inside. Without it, he said, you ended up wayward, without a proper home or a legitimate identity.

National consciousness is truly a miraculous thing. When I am not in Turkey I feel even more Turkish than in Istanbul. But when I'm home my European side becomes more apparent.

Michael still thought of Havana as home, because he was born there. And he had been Miguel Arroya there. Here, he was Michael.

I felt completely at home in Mexico - speaking Spanish to my cousins, running around Acapulco and stuffing my face with mole and homemade tortillas. Mexico opened my heart.

Tanglewood [summer home of the Boston Symphony Orchestra] was a place where gods strode the earth.

When somebody talks about home, you have to listen carefully so you know exactly which one the person is referring to.

The sick individual finds himself at home with all other similarly sick individuals. The whole culture is geared to this kind of pathology.

I have found the game to be, in all factualness, a universal language wherever I traveled at home or abroad.

The bookshelf, like the book, has become an integral part of civilization as we know it, its presence in a home practically defining what it means to be civilized, educated, and refined.

Emo is over, you can all go home now

I'm not part of the cultural elite. I'm a down-home girl. Always have been, always will be.

There are so many Jamaican people here in London, it's going to be like being at home for me.

These were people... who built redwood decks on their mobile homes and have no idea that smart-aleck Yankees think that is somehow funny. People of the pines. My people.

I don't feel that I am a visitor in Ghana or in any part of Africa. I feel that I am at home.

I live half the year in Nigeria, the other half in the U.S. But home is Nigeria - it always will be. I consider myself a Nigerian who is comfortable in the world. I look at it through Nigerian eyes.

There is a lot of food culture that goes on in the home and in the community in non-traditional ways. Food is a lot more than restaurants.

If you own a home with wheels on it and several cars without, you just might be a redneck.

I grew up in a very artistic, cultured home, but without any kind of spirituality. My parents were secular materialists, so I saw art as having an alternate value.

I grew up in a culturally radical home, where strong emotions were forbidden.

Even though I live in America more, I feel like when I go to Adelaide, that's when I get to go home.

I've now been in this country for thirteen years, since I was seventeen. So this is my second home.

I certainly don't live in a kosher home although I was raised in a kosher environment.

Italy is definitely where I feel most at home, or alternatively, living in total wilderness, in the bush in Australia.