Quotes About Culture

My first serious girlfriend, when I was 16, was Mormon. I went to her house for 'family home evening,' and I was like, 'Why aren't you people ignoring each other and watching television?'

I would go to school and be American and then come home and be Greek.

Jews are the best dressers in the world. They buy the best clothes, the best homes, the best cars. The best of everything. The only thing is, they get it for less.

I was the most Australian child ever in the world, even though my home was in Africa.

I live in New York City, so there's so much stimulation when you walk outside, it does not require a television in the home.

Home to me is the world because my books have been translated into more than 30 languages.

With languages, you are at home anywhere

There is something very nice about coming to New York and how everyone smiles - even if they don't mean it. When I go back home to London and say hello to people, they look at me like I'm crazy.

Now we have this idea that, not only do you go to first grade to learn your family's language, but you go to a university to learn about the person you were before you left home.

I was born in Paris, and it's a beautiful place, but London feels like home. I like the village feeling, I like running in the parks - even the food isn't as bad as it used to be.

India is a country in which every great religion finds a home.

Well I come from a land, from a far away place, where the caravan camels roam. They will cut of your ear if they don't like your face, it's babaric, but hey, it's home.

They say there are only two kinds of people on St. Patrick's Day: the Irish, and the people that drive them home.

It is our homes and families that need reforming in this increasingly materialistic and secular world.

Nothing in our culture, not even home computers, is more overrated than the epidermal felicity of two featherless bipeds in desperate congress.

Do you realize that in the past sixty years, the only foreigners the French have been able to drive out are American tourists?

I'm vegan on home base, but when I travel to other countries, I throw it all into the garbage.

When I was 10 years old, we'd pick out a cow and boom! They'd hit it in the head with a hammer, lift it up by the back legs, and skin it in front of us. Then I'd take the head home and make soup

Our powerful hunger for myth is a hunger for community. The person without a myth is a person without a home...To be a member of one's community is to share in its myths.

Somalis have made my city of Wilmington, Delaware, [ their home ] on a smaller scale. There is a large, very identifiable Somali community.

Omaha is a little like Newark, without Newark's glamour.

The places I've travelled and cultures I've experienced have been reflected in my home decor choices.

Thierry had no idea why they were called French doors. His native countrymen weren't stupid enough to put them in their homes.

I've always felt like a foreigner wherever I've lived. I don't feel much towards my Italian or Scottish roots, although I do cook the pasta at home.