Cultural Bonding Quotes

Not much about California, on its own preferred terms, has encouraged its children to see themselves as connected to one another.

I did have quite a different upbringing to a lot of my peers. We all have a sort of code that we get, especially as Beatles kids. It's an unspoken sort of word of understanding. But I'm comfortable around a lot of different types of people.

Jokes are one of the things that bind the culture. If you can't have jokes about everybody in society and if one group is hedged off and protected then that group can never truly be integrated.

Language is a unifying instrument which binds people together. When people speak one language they become as one, they become a society.

Nothing like the act of eating for equalizing men. Dying is nothing to it.

In the little travel I've done to other countries, the Jews there embraced me saying, Come to our house, come and have Shabbat with us. Jews in the Diaspora. I didn't imagine an Israeli traveling to the U.S. would feel this intensity of a forced relationship.

A people's relationship to their heritage is the same as the relationship of a child to its mother.

I don't know what it's like to be Jewish, but I suspect there is some aspect of that: being Jewish is the thing that bonds you as opposed to being Jewish from Poland, or Jewish from Hungary.

Cinema is a great binding force for a nation.

My thoughts, my feelings, my spirit, they are all in Spanish.

That vision of a common culture is now simply a remote wistfulness.

Singing seems to be inherent in Filipino, just as it is in my race. That's why I have this affinity with Filipinos.

Music as a social conduit has always been important to me.

So there's no guarantee if you like the music you will empathize with the culture and the people who made it. It doesn't necessarily happen. I think it can, but it doesn't necessarily happen. Which is kind of a shame.

For me music is pretty personal. I generally listen to it alone, and I've never been a lover of concerts. So I don't think I really bond with other people over music. That's not unique to music for me, either. I feel that way about film, television, art, everything. I read a book alone, so why wouldn't I listen to music alone?

A lot of people, especially Japanese, come to the theater to have a good cry.

My parents gave me a Mexican name. In our culture, we are named after the events of the day.

We have very strong roots in Italy and we are committed to deepen these roots even more.

Christmas is a holiday that we celebrate not as individuals nor as a nation, but as a human family.

The death of distance. There is hardly any middle class family in India who doesn't have a son, a daughter, a son-in-law, a brother, a brother-in-law in the United States. That is a very powerful new bond.