Shared Culture Quotes

A nation is the same people living in the same place.

You were able to sing something they related to instantly, because it was part of what you felt. It was part of what you had already traveled through. It's part of the people you were associating with daily. It was all of that.

Once a song comes out, these songs aren't mine. They're everybody's. So there you go.

I'd bite off the Beatles, or anybody else. It's all one world, one planet and one groove. You're supposed to learn from each other, blend from each other, and it moves around like that.

The truth is that we want nothing so much as to be American. I for one would rather that we chucked it all and joined the United States and stop defying the law of politics and geography…. The reality is that Canadians are Americans already without many of the advantages.

The Beatles were something everyone had in common; this was thirty years ago, there was Dr. Who and everybody knew who the Daleks were and there was The Beatles and everybody knew who George Harrison was.

What supposedly bound that Commonwealth together was a mysterious shared identity - Britishness.

I suggest that the great art belongs to all people, all the time--that indeed it is made for the people, by the people, to the people.

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

There is something very very special, universal and easily identifiable among all Jews; it is beyond territory, it is something we all have in common.

New York has a thousand universes in it that don't always connect but we do all walk the same streets, hear the same sirens, ride the same subways, see the same headlines in the Post, read the same writings on the walls. That shared landscape gets inside of all of us and, in some small way, unites us, makes us think we know each other even when we don't.

We are Americans, speaking the same language, adopting the same customs, holding the same general opinions... and shall rise and fall with Americans.

The music of Africa is big sound: it's the sound of a community

You don't stumble upon your heritage. It's there, just waiting to be explored and shared.

What do people really believe in any more apart from sport and music?

Schools exist in America and have always existed to train responsible citizens of the United States of America. If they don't do that, it's very hard to hold us together as a country, because it's shared values that hold us together.

The North and South were one people sharing one language and one culture for about 5,000 years. Ultimately, we should reunite.

Our powerful hunger for myth is a hunger for community. The person without a myth is a person without a home...To be a member of one's community is to share in its myths.

You can be hip-hop to the max, but you still know 'Sweet Home Alabama.'

A nation isthe universality of citizens speaking the same tongue.

Judaism is not just a religion but a people, and the food and customs of one part of the people is connected to the other part of the people. They are part of a larger story.

Shakespeare is global - of course he can be shared.

The United States, a land of immigrants from every corner of the world, has been strengthened and unified because its newcomers have historically chosen ultimately to forgo their native language for the English language. We have all benefited from the sharing of ideas, of cultures and beliefs, made possible by a common language. We have all enriched each other.

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.

Everyone has a ghost story, or at least that's how it has always seemed to me.