Local Culture Quotes

Growing up in Rochdale, I think, all the kids in my street, pretty much every boy was playing cricket. I had four brothers as well, and we played a lot together. When it was just me on my own, I was bowling at a drainpipe.

I think you need to, as an architect, understand the essence of a place and create a building that feels like it resonates with the culture of a place. So my buildings in India or in Kansas City or in Arkansas or in Singapore, they come out different because the places are so different.

Things come in waves, and I'm always more interested in places like, for instance, Chicago, where people don't follow fashion. They're not galloping past your window on the way to the latest anything. They're living their lives. You do a play, they come and see it and say, 'That's nice', and then they go home.

We all knew each other in the neighborhood. I loved living in El Paso. I had a wonderful childhood there.

I'm not a folk-singer. I just sing a certain place.

Amsterdam has more than 150 canals and 1,250 bridges, but it never seems crowded, nor bent and bitter from fleecing the tourist.

I do quite like sightseeing. I like churches, museums, galleries and all that stuff. I love the smell of a church in Italy or the smell of an old greasy spoon somewhere. I like markets and little funny shops in the backstreets of Florence.

I did not grow up in a cosmopolitan environment. I grew up in a little town in the middle of nowhere, pre-Internet, pre-college radio.

I'm from a small town on the bottom edge of Mississippi, very near New Orleans and the Louisiana border. My family has lived there for generations.

I would love to be the poet laureate of Coney Island.

Every small town that I had ever been to had had a caboose.

The Vietnam War was happening, but Lubbock was... They put a pinch on it.

It's Connecticut: being like the people around you is the whole point.

Respect and a gentlemanly character - those are marks of a Nebraskan.

I live in New York City, the stories of my films take place in New York; I'm a New York filmmaker.

I come from a one-by-three-mile town: Seaford.

As I've often said, Wisconsin's greatest strength continues to be the dedicated, hardworking people of our state. They go to work everyday, pay their taxes, and raise their kids with good, Midwestern values.

When we show up in a city, we ask, 'Where's the best restaurant? What's the best beer?' You start doing that, and you get exposed to a lot of great stuff.

Canberra always had a great sense of community when I was there.

I have a deep affinity for New Orleans - its like a second home to me - they treat me like I'm their own.

A hick town is one where there is no place to go where you shouldn't go.

Everything we design is a response to the specific climate and culture of a particular place.

I speak at a lot of banquets in small towns, because small towns have so many great people.

But I love Chicago summers on Lake Michigan, Philly cheesesteaks on South Street, falling in love in Brooklyn, street fairs in Asheville, North Carolina.

My dad is from Nottingham - although I've only been there twice in my life, with one being when my friend was at university there. I've always found it a friendly place and has a good night life.