Kazuo Ishiguro Quotes

I think culture is a very challenging thing to reverse.

I feel that's one of the central questions of fantasy. What did we lose when we entered the 20th and 21st century, and how can we mourn what we lost, and what can we replace it with? We're still asking those questions in an urgent way.

To me, England is past its sell-by date. It's not the country I grew up in.

I hate 'Rolling Stone' - because I loved it so much. I had the 'Cheap Tricks' cover and the Clash cover on my wall for years, and I just hate what happened to it. It just became the smarmy grad student that sits next to you on the bus.

A lot of people who come to my restaurant bring their parents over because it brings back good memories.

Ever since I was little, when I moved to Canada, Canada has been my home.

I love L.A., but Pittsburgh just is home. This is what I know. This is where I was born and raised. This is what molded me to make me who I am.

I'm a bartender's son. Some things you never forget.

I am first-generation American, so I didn't grow up in the South or have any relatives who were slaves. My forefathers were colonized.

I'm a first-generation American. My parents are from Nigeria. I had this weird last name that looked Japanese, and then people would see me and go, 'Oh. You're not Japanese.'

I think everyone is kind of an immigrant somehow, and I wasn't raised in an American society at home. My household was a Jamaican household, so I got all my traditions, all my roots and culture intact, so I'm able to support both countries.

The notion of someone who is fitting in or trying to become part of a larger family... It's hard to separate that from my own Jewish roots.

We're a nation of immigrants.

We are a nation of immigrants.

I grew up listening to everybody.

I always had my roots in the past.

I live in the U.S., but I'm from Brazil.

I'm a proud Cuban-Mexican immigrant.

Let's treasure our roots, even when we're far away.

I was really inspired by keeping alive these things of my childhood.

Some things never die, and they often get way better.

We came from many roots, and we have many branches.

Family traditions are more than arguments with the dead, more than collections of family letters you try to decipher. A tradition is also a channel of memory through which fierce and unrequited longings surge, longings that define and shape a whole life.

I'd love to go back to when we played as kids, but things change. And that's the way it is.

A tree lives on its roots. If you change the root, you change the tree. Culture lives in human beings. If you change the human heart the culture will follow.