Aasif Mandvi Quotes

My family and my friends definitely keep me connected to my culture.

Religion and culture are two important ways in which we as humans find our identity. That's certainly true for me.

I love traditions. I mean, cultural ones.

I'm not a religious person, and I'm not too interested in being a part of a religion, but I do like having some sort of communal gathering, and having some sense of peoples.

I'll always stand by my Gypsy roots, and I'll always help out one of my own.

I'm a good girl, and I have a very good Jewish family who brought me up very well.

The greatest guarantee for the preservation of a person’s identity is language and faith, and all Armenians must carry these two values.

I go to church for the cultural element. It's where you go to see Greek people once a week. It's real important to me, and I hope my children see they're part of something bigger than just this family.

I've studied my culture deeply and I'm very aware of my tradition.

I'm a very spiritual person, and proud of my Mormon roots.

I think the world would be much poorer without religion, speaking generally.

I'm the only one in my family - I'm a practicing Jew - who has attached themselves to religion in a more traditional way.

I love my heritage both as someone who grew up as a Muslim and as an Indian - it's part of who I am and I would never deny it.

Science, like art, religion, commerce, warfare, and even sleep, is based on presuppositions.

Cultures, along with the religions that shape and nurture them, are value systems, sets of traditions and habits clustered around one or several languages, producing meaning: for the self, for the here and now, for the community, for life.

I was raised into the Romanian Orthodox culture by my parents, and most notably my mother, who is a profoundly religious and spiritual woman.

I'm a closet Catholic. I love the iconography of the saints. There was a point in my life when I was going to convert to Catholicism, but I didn't want my grandmother spinning around in her grave like a rotisserie chicken.

I love where I'm from. I don't live there because of the circumstances, but all my family is there. It's what's inside, it's not what's outside that determines the culture and the feeling.

My temples are only in India. When I am in India, I go to the religious ceremonies.

I'm a spiritual person, I'm an America, I'm a Jew, and all of those things influence every breath I take, everywhere I go.

I was raised Irish Catholic, but I don't consider myself Irish Catholic: I consider myself me, an American.

My family is very traditional, Catholic.

I try to just talk about human stories and what I think about religion or teapots or whatever.

I've always been very vocal about my religion. It's a big part of who I am.

I'm very spiritual and I'm Jewish by faith. I'm not a practising Jew, I'm more of a recreational Jew. I celebrate the holidays and I try to inform my kids about their heritage because I think we all at some point have to defend our heritage and if they get picked on I want them to know why.