Quotes About Nationality

We Slovenians are even better misers than you Scottish. You know how Scotland began? One of us Slovenians was spending too much money, so we put him on a boat and he landed in Scotland.

In American elections there are no losers, because whether or not our candidates win or lose, the next morning we wake up as Americans.

Kosovo is Serbian, only if my mother is a Virgin

You want a lesson? I'll give you a lesson. How about a geography lesson? My father's from Puerto Rico. My mother's from El Salvador. And neither one of those is Mexico.

My father is Swedish and my mother is French.

The English was really my mother, it was never me. Being the daughter of my father, I always felt very French.

Actually, the reason I look like this is because my father was from Sweden and my mother was Elton John.

By his father he is English, by his mother he is Americanto my mind the blend which makes the perfect man.

I am an Indian. In fact, I feel like a foreigner when I go abroad.

I think those who say that you can't tango if you are not Argentine are mistaken. Tango was an immigrant music... so it does not have a nationality. It's only passport is feeling.

No one loves his country for its size or eminence, but because it's his own.

I'm troubled. I'm dissatisfied. I'm Irish.

You cannot deny your origins: I love Kirchner more than Matisse, although Matisse was a greater artist. That isn't to do with nationality. It's a stronger feeling.

I am Roman, alas, because Horace is Roman.

Breathes there the man with soul so dead Who never to himself hath said This is my own my native land!

I have never understood why one's affections must be confined as once with women to a single country.

I am not a Virginian but an American.

You can take a my body out of Nepal but you can never take my soul and Heart from a Nepal .

I myself have never called what I write anti-poetry. I also think that my poetry should not be only known as the poetry of Ernesto Cardenal but rather as Nicaraguan poetry.

In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate.

I'm Canadian so American politics are not really in my wheelhouse.

It is not polite for a Russian to interfere in British politics.

I'm proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is - I could be just as proud for half the money.

After I became a citizen, I felt freer to say what I thought about this country, both negative and positive. I think I had been, consciously and subconsciously, biting my tongue in the past.