Local Traditions Quotes

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

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

I grew up in a small village in the west of Ireland.

I grew up in Rhode Island. Most of my family on both sides is from Rhode Island.

Where I grew up, there was a mysticism and creativity to everything. Everyone made things with their hands.

I love going to flea markets especially when I am traveling, because I love seeing the stuff of other cultures, handicrafts and things with historical content.

I'm from a small town called Alesund in Norway.

Because everyone grows up together in my small hometown, everyone knows everyone else. And there are such large extended families that a lot of people are related to each other.

Southern barbecue is the closest thing we have in the U.S. to Europe's wines or cheeses; drive a hundred miles and the barbecue changes.

I grew up in the small town of Haywards Heath, south of London.

I grew up in a very rural community in England.

Growing up in Livingston, New Jersey, was terrific.

New Orleans is like my blood; it's not going anywhere. And then I just take different things that I've learned over the years and add them to what I'm doing with the natural New Orleans sound.

Of course, New Brighton is very shabby, very rundown, but people still go there because it's the place where you take kids out on a Sunday.

New York is at once cosmopolitan and parochial, a compendium of sentimental certainties. It is in fact the most sentimental of the world's great cities - in its self-congratulation a kind of San Francisco of the East.

The art of living in a small town is one of the most difficult to acquire.

We know that art is connected with the land, with its salt, with its smell, that outside of national culture there is no art. Cosmopolitanism - a world in which things lose their color and form, and words lose their significance. We love in our past all that we consider native, wonderful and fair.

The South is the last place with a sense of place.

Growing up in the north, it was natural for me to absorb the Punjabiness around me. I like their way of living, their large-heartedness. I know no other way.

I'm a normal kid from Oshkosh, Wisconsin.

I grew up in Doraville, Georgia and I ate barbecued ribs and chicken fried steak, and all kinds of cheesy grits, you know, and I never even thought twice about it.

When you do an album about Africa, you can't be too superficial.

If you grew up in Boston, you actually grew up thinking that Patriots' Day is a major American holiday, sort of like the other Fourth of July.