Quotes About Nationality

There are two kinds of homeland: one that is given is like a negative, and one that you have to conquer is like the positive.

Nationality is the creative power of human culture, culture is the creative power of nationality.

We can get hot and bothered quicker over nothing, and cool off faster than any nation in the world.

No longer an American, Benedict Arnold was never accepted as an Englishman, either.

England with all thy faults, I love thee still-- My country! and, while yet a nook is left Where English minds and manners may be found, Shall be constrained to love thee.

Although I'm Australian, I find myself much more in sympathy with the Austrian version!

Jews were the standard-bearers of the Austrian idea of unity.' A poignant though probably apocryphal tale is of a group of Austro-Hungarian Army officers casting earth into the grave of a fellow soldier: each does it in the name of his own nationality – Hungarian, Czech, Slovak, Polish. Only the Jewish officer speaks for Austria.

If 'national character' can really be said to exist, it can only be asa. result of such schismogenetic processes: English people trying to become as little as possible like French, French people as little like Germans, and so on. if nothing else, they will all definitely exaggerate their differences in arguing with one another.

I'm an American,' Kabuo cut in. 'Just like anybody. Am I calling you a Nazi, you big Nazi bastard? I killed men who looked just like you - pig-fed German bastards. I've got their blood on my soul, Carl, and it doesn't wash off very easily. So don't you talk to me about Japs, you big Nazi son of a bitch.

You never feel more American than when you leave America.

He is one of those giant figures, of whom there are very few in history, who lose their nationality in death.

God created whiskey to keep the Irish from taking over the world.

In the heart of any pious Jew, God is a Jew. Is your God an Englishman or an American?

Frenchman: Germans with good food.

It is typically Norwegian to be good

The good news is, President Obama was born in America. The bad news is, so was Donald Trump.

Do people think Swedes are cool? I think they think you're cool in spite of you being Swedish. But the good thing with being Swedish is that we're melancholic.

I don't think of myself as either American or Australian really, I'm a true hybrid. It's a good thing for me because both of them are really good countries.

It makes me feel good. Being a foreigner, (the American fans) they make me feel like I'm a citizen of this country.

Fathom the hypocrisy of a government that requires every citizen to prove they are insured... But not everyone must prove they are a citizen.

Even if I wanted to run for Ethiopia, I wouldn't expect the government or federation to choose me to do that.

England is perhaps the only great country whose intellectuals are ashamed of their own nationality.

When people say England, they sometimes mean Great Britain, sometimes the United Kingdom, sometimes the British Isles, - but never England.

Each nationality contains its centre of happiness within itself, as a bullet the centre of gravity.