Culture Shock Quotes
17 quotes by 17 authors
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The thing that really struck me when I went to junior high was class. I grew up on a pretty poor street, but the school…
— Lynda Barry
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When I was younger, living in an all-black neighborhood the other kids thought I was better than them because of my light skin and straight…
— Halle Berry
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After the stretch of weather we've had, this is going to be a culture shock for some people. We always end up crashing back to…
— Unknown Author
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When I arrived in America, I experienced serious culture shock. For someone with a religious upbringing, the 1960s were an extremely difficult time. Even though…
— Feisal Abdul Rauf
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We're going to be surprised when we discover that things in Heaven are normal and natural, much like this life. Of course, it will be…
— David Berg
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One of the things I tend to do is open myself up to a variety of voices. I try to expose myself to the kind…
— Pierre Omidyar
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Olympia was a town crawling with music. I was new to the whole punk scene. The culture shock continued; Olympia had bagels! We didn't have…
— Beth Ditto
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I foresee death by culture shock.
— Woody Allen
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Must have been quite the culture shock, going there.†“Yes it was.†Idris doesn’t say that the real culture shock has been in coming back.
— Khaled Hosseini
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Going through different places, I stopped through Dubai and stayed there overnight. There I had an ultra-culture shock.
— Tequan Richmond
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Places like India can give you a real culture shock because of the poverty you see, and it brings you up sharply.
— Terry Wogan
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In 2001, I moved from Philly to Atlanta, where I lived for six years. I had never lived anywhere but Philly, and you can imagine…
— Karen Abbott
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We moved to Gambia from Sweden when I was six years old because my dad was from there. It was definitely a culture shock.
— Seinabo Sey
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When I was 24 I went to Nigeria and it was such a culture shock, growing up in Australia and suddenly being the only white…
— Bruce Beresford
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When I left the U.S. for the first time, I spent my first year abroad in Japan. That culture shock and abundance of new stimuli…
— Timothy Ferriss
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New York was my first stop after school because I thought Los Angeles would be too much of culture shock.
— Matthew Bomer
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My biggest fear was public speaking, and then having everyone know who I was, it was definitely weird at first. When I first won, it…
— Chris Moneymaker
Who Wrote These Culture Shock Quotes
17 authors contributed a total of 17 Culture Shock Quotes as follows: