Quotes About Culture

My grandmother, Betty Bertha Bright, lived in the Armenian block in Kolkata. After '36 Chowringhee Lane,' we haven't seen that part of the city in films.

Yes, I can speak a bit and I can read and write in Russian. I learned it from my grandmother who raised me with all the Russian fairytales.

I actually grew up with people from all over the world. There wasn't enough of a difference to feel different from anybody else. Their grandmother hollered at me like my grandmother hollered at all the kids when anybody did anything wrong. And their parents did the same thing.

My grandmother and both my parents worked in Bollywood.

My mom and both of my grandmothers have always been into fashion, so it's been around us our whole lives.

My Chinese grandmother was a dressmaker, so I always enjoyed dressing up and looking cool.

My Indian grandmother was born in Punjab.

You should just feel comfortable with food and your own culinary culture, whatever your mother and grandmother know.

I have been singing since the time I was two. My mom says I would sing Gujarati songs with my grandmother when I was a kid.

I'm like an international girl all day long. But I love the black women in my life: my grandmother, my mom.

Dizzy Gillespie would come by, eating gumbo. It was crazy. My grandparents were friends with all of them. Dee Dee Bridgewater, all of them, they'd come through.

My great grandparents are Scottish, and I have this very tenuous connection which I try and bump up whenever I can, because I'd much rather be Scottish than English.

All my friends had grandparents who had accents. I thought all grandparents were supposed to have accents. My friends were all second-generation, as I was.

When you hear about people in the '50s getting married at 20, you're like, 'What were they thinking?' My grandparents were together for over 50 years.

My grandparents on my father's side came to this country from the Caribbean with a strong connection to Africa and no shame about it.

I come from a family of linguists. My maternal grandparents have been authors and translators.

I was with a Russian family, and I couldn't believe that the grandparents in Russia, first of all I was shocked and delighted to find that the Russian family that I'd been told was so different from the American family, was exactly the same.

As we travel around Britain, I am convinced most of us cannot really appreciate what we are seeing. We take too much for granted, because it is all so familiar.

The Tamil audience has accepted me and given me a place to establish myself. I'm not taking things for granted... I've learnt the language.

I think people just want to be popular. So they're going to write lyrics that are going to get your attention. You know, sometimes, they're a little graphic, and I don't think that's so necessary.

Calcutta is like another world. People there are very special and grateful.

People are less grateful than they used to be.

I'm a fan of the Grateful Dead.

The more English is heard in the world, the more gratifying it seems to speak French, and above all to know the culture of our country. They find a kind of French social grace in the language and culture.