Quotes About Culture

I don't use the word 'renaissance'. It's flawed because in Latin, it's tied to the rebirth of Christ... It's a word that's tied to a European concept.

I feel very tied to Ireland and the U.K. and that side of the world.

Culture in general is important, and people's identify is tied up in it. It's how we connect with others.

As digital culture becomes more tied to the success of the platforms where it flourishes, there is always a risk of it disappearing forever.

I grew up with so much of the identity of being Muslim and being Arab tied around politics.

More than anything, a lot of our family's history is tied to food. It's just one of those things.

I have never tied my hair in a bun and I rarely wear a bindi.

The pension system ties you to companies much longer in Japan.

Architecture is not merely national but clearly has local ties in that it is rooted in the earth.

These are important markers in our engagement with South East Asia, in enhancing our strategic ties with ASEAN across 3 Cs. These 3 Cs are commerce, connectivity, and culture.

If our moral attitudes are entirely the result of nonrational factors, such as gut feelings and the absorption of cultural norms, they should either be stable or randomly drift over time, like skirt lengths or the widths of ties. They shouldn't show systematic change over human history. But they do.

I remember when people actually wore coats and ties to theatre every night. They don't anymore. It's very different.

One of the things I've always loved about queer culture is the openness and passionate curiosity about love, desire and the myriad forms of affectionate ties.

Before the Beatles, America was musically a very conservative country. You can see film footage of people at a baseball game, they all had hats and ties on, and the women were dressed up like they were going to church. That was the America that I started getting interested in musically.

The U.S. should not continue to ignore Latin America. Our nation shares regional and cultural ties with these neighboring countries.

Music, that has mostly earned a 'film music' status in our country, leaves genres like jazz, folk and classical to the niche. But, something common ties all the genres of music, the skeleton of the sounds - the instruments. Instrumentalist in our country are not given their due, at least not as much as they deserve.

My mum and dad were a little like tiger parents. I hate that, but at the same time, I am a little bit proud.

My first novel, 'The Tiger's Daughter,' embodies the loneliness I felt but could not acknowledge, even to myself, as I negotiated the no man's land between the country of my past and the continent of my present.

I give a speech to the black freshmen at Harvard each year, and I say, 'You can like Mozart and ice hockey...' - and then I used to say 'golf,' but Tiger took over golf! - 'and Picasso and still be as black as the ace of spades.'

I just wasn't cut out to be a Chinese Tiger Mom. I'm more of an Irish Setter Dad.

I think the whole 'tiger mom' thing is a very common trope. People like to show Asian moms giving pressure, but they don't really show the love that comes with it.

But I'm the child of a tiger mom.

When people talk about South Africa, it's all about lions and elephants. But when we talk about India, we talk about tigers.

I feel like Americans don't really have any idea of what's going on in the world, especially us Africans. I feel like when they think about Africans, they think about just us running around with lions and tigers and all those other animals.