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Quotes About Culture

I'm Greek, and we're conspiratorial by nature.
~ George Tenet
It's impossible for success to go to your head with a Greek mom - no way.
~ Nia Vardalos
I have blonde hair and blue eyes, and whenever I tell people I'm Greek, they don't believe me.
~ Elena Kampouris
I'm half Greek, half Australian.
~ Orianthi
It is great to be Greek, because I have one of the best heritages in the world.
~ Demis Roussos
I put one questions. For whom I compose? My answer is I wanted to address to all my people. And if I write music for the Greek people because I'm Greek, I compose for all the people.
~ Mikis Theodorakis
The Greek side of my family are actually all really fair.
~ Tulisa
Macedonia was, is and will forever be Greek.
~ Mikis Theodorakis
If you want to talk about cultural appropriation, we have to go back to the Greeks.
~ Frances McDormand
We Greeks are the blacks of Europe.
~ Yanis Varoufakis
Why do Greeks always open restaurants that fail?
~ George Chakiris
I can play lots of nationalities: Greeks, South Americans, Arabs, all sorts.
~ Victor Banerjee
I remember that alongside the expected dishes, our family had a few of our own specials too like 'meen manga curry,' which had a yummy green colored gravy.
~ Babu Antony
'The Green Lantern' seems a little calculated to me. It's like, 'We've got to get on this gay bandwagon and make this character gay.' Like anything else, there's earnest expressions in the culture and then there's kind of bandwagoning.
~ Christopher McCulloch
When it comes to football, I'm more of a traditional guy. I love going to Green Bay.
~ Jon Gruden
I grew up in Midtown Manhattan.
~ Alex Guarnaschelli
There's a lot of rednecks in the country where I grew up.
~ Dolly Parton
I grew up on anime and manga. That's part of who I am.
~ Masi Oka
In Blackburn where I grew up, there was no other black children.
~ A. J. Odudu
I grew up listening to - it's kind of embarrassing - all classical music.
~ Caroline Shaw
I grew up Seventh Day Adventist.
~ David Alaba
I love funk! That's the music I grew up on.
~ E-40
'Grey's Anatomy' is a very culturally diverse show.
~ Octavia Spencer
In our culture I think most people think of grief as sadness, and that's certainly part of it, a large part of it, but there's also this thorniness, these edges that come out.
~ Anthony Rapp