Regional Culture Quotes

I grew up in Northern California, and theater is all there was. I didn't know how to go about starting a career when I was 10.

I got the sense that Alabama is a place where people don't want handouts and don't much care for people talking out of the side of their mouth.

Without really analyzing it, I grew up in Massachusetts, so the Salem witch trials were always something that I was around. The average kindergartner probably doesn't know about it, except that in Massachusetts, you do, because they'll take you on field trips to see reenactments and stuff.

Comics were not something that as a young kid you could say you were into in Manchester, Missouri. Kids did not read comic books back then.

We didn't have the Grand Ole Opry or country radio stations in Nova Scotia when I was growing up.

Latin American culture is conservative, and the rural areas are tremendously conservative. I don't believe that's just a Chilean thing.

It's the South that maintains the idea that they're different, which is interesting because nobody else really cares.

Californians are a race of people; they are not merely inhabitants of a State.

It never dawned on me that I had the option of becoming a comedian. I come from a little dirt street town in northwest Texas, and they really don't talk about the arts there much on career day.

I have lived in Cornwall from the age of 4, so I have always been aware of the artistic heritage that the county has. I feel very proud to be able to connect to this.

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

There's a big anti-intellectual strain in the American south, and there always has been. We're not big on thought.

When I was in Utah there, first learning the kind of music I love, my favorite singer was T. Texas Tyler. So my friend, Norman Ritchie, the traveling teenage sage, started calling me U. Utah Phillips.

I don't do drugs. Because my grandmother raised me. I think like an old, black, Southern woman. If I'd have done coke, I'd probably be cooking pancakes.

Well, there's nothing strange about Americans as a whole. But, Angelinos are different!

I grew up in Texas, and I think anybody who grows up in the Midwest or in the South, it's just a different way of life.

The South: What is this place? What's different about it? Is it different anymore? Good questions. Old ones, too. People have been asking them for decades. Some of us even make our living by asking them, but we still don't agree about the answers.

I'm proud of where I'm from. I'm proud of Long Island.

I went to college in Mississippi; I'm from Louisiana.

Where I grew up - we started out in Oklahoma and then moved to Missouri - it was considered hubris to talk about yourself. And the downside of that was that ideas rarely got exchanged, or true feelings.

Winter is not a season in the North Middlewest; it is an industry.

I think the sensibilities of having grown up in Upstate New York and the concerns, the fears, the hopes of the people there are reflected all over the country.

As a Southerner I would have to say that one of the main importances of the War is that Southerners have a sense of defeat which none of the rest of the country has.

Growing up in the Midwest, people don't drive Porsches and Ferraris. They drive Fords and Chevys. And so even if you have the opportunity to buy a more expensive car, it doesn't occur to you because it's not what you relate to.

First and foremost, I want to give thanks to Indiana, as a state, for embracing me and my family for seven years of being there. I learned so much being there. They taught me so much.