Common Background Quotes

When you're in part of the same draft class, you always have a certain connection that not many other people can have with each other.

For me, what makes life enjoyable is having a shared culture and shared references.

With my husband, I do really appreciate the fact that we - even though we're different kinds of Asian, there is a cultural shorthand between us, and I don't have to explain anything. I've dated guys before who weren't Asian-American, and it frustrated me when I would have to defend why beans belong in a dessert.

We had literary references, so we knew what we were talking about. We could quote things, talk about books we'd read; you can say something, you don't have to explain it.

Children of the same family, the same blood, with the same first associations and habits, have some means of enjoyment in their power, which no subsequent connections can supply.

In more than 10 years, I've formed three real friendships. Mousa Dembele, for example. We've known each other since we were 12, our wives are from Amsterdam, he lives in London and we both have a kid.

But it also became the experience, or was the experience, of the writers who were attracted to this kind of humor. They're all men or women who come from the same kind of experience in their own lives.

Bob Monkhouse, Galton and Simpson, Spike Milligan and I all started around the same time with an enormous advantage: working to an audience all of whom had shared an awful, common experience - the war.

It's ironic that no matter where I go, I meet people from Brooklyn. I'm proud of that heritage. It's where I'm from, who I am.

Shaz Khan and I, it turned out, went to school together in third grade.

I've got Aussie country pride for sure. I just like where I grew up. I think you've got lots in common with the people who grew up the same as you.

Men can become twins with age. The past was their common womb; the six months of rain and the six months of sun was the period of their common gestation. They needed only a few words and a few gestures to convey their meaning. They had graduated through the same fevers, they were moved by the same love and contempt.

...[W]ords can be communicative only between those who share similar experiences.

Me and Carti are both from the Southside of Atlanta. That's one of the main reasons that we clicked so well.

I don't know what it's like to be Jewish, but I suspect there is some aspect of that: being Jewish is the thing that bonds you as opposed to being Jewish from Poland, or Jewish from Hungary.

When I came to India, it's just a different country, but the culture was same that I grew up in.

Tyson Fury and I go back. He won the amateur championships the same year I did.

I think people looked at me as one of them - an ordinary girl from an ordinary family with a voice they could recognise.

John Edwards comes from working folk, just like me. John Edwards worked hard and excelled to get his education, just like me.

I come from a very common family background in a small village, and getting an opportunity from home state to represent the state for an important and sensitive work is an honour for me and my family.

If you did go to high school and then college, there's definitely a solidarity with someone that is from your hometown and knows your mom and all that stuff.

[Vice chairman of Barbour] Helen [Barbour] and I realized that I come from the same village that her ancestor John Barbour came from, who created Barbour. It just seemed like such a great connection.

A lot of the guys that work for Warners and make these big films there all come from the same film school. Like Michael Bay, Zack Snyder, Tarsem Singh - they all went to Art Center in the College of Design. And there's a certain expectation when these guys graduate.

Now that I live in Los Angeles, if I meet somebody from Detroit, it's like there's this brother- or sisterhood, where we're real folks.

People think I have the benefit of a public school education. I have this suave and debonair label, but really, I'm as common as muck.