Quotes About Nationality

But it is my happiness to be half Welsh, and that the better half.

Why do British people make such good TV? It's so annoying. Stop it. Is it because they have free health care? Uggh.

History shows that it is not only senseless and cruel, but also difficult to state who is a foreigner.

I live half the year in Nigeria, the other half in the U.S. But home is Nigeria - it always will be. I consider myself a Nigerian who is comfortable in the world. I look at it through Nigerian eyes.

I was the most Australian child ever in the world, even though my home was in Africa.

Id have to fight for an Australian role over an American actor, and I already have to do that overseas, so why would I have to do it back at home?

England was never my home. I had a home there but Dublin is my home so leaving Ireland was the hardest thing I had to do.

Madrid is what I call home, but also the States.

I feel at home in a lot of places, but I am truly an African-American.

Never try to make Americans or foreigners feel at home - had they wished to feel at home, they would have remained in their own county.

First and foremost, Scotland is my home, and I do consider myself Scottish, but I also feel very British, and I hope that Scotland stays within the Union. I have a real concern about independence.

Anytime I sing the anthem, it is an honor and my heart beats out of my chest.

If people from Poland are called Poles, why aren't people from Holland called Holes?

One matter Englishmen don't think in the least funny is their happy consciousness of possessing a deep sense of humor.

Humor is practically the only thing about which the English are utterly serious.

I used to be Irish Catholic. Now I'm an American - you know, you grow.

That's not Eire. Everyone always thinks that, but we're not shamrocks and wee men. You should know the difference.

No I didn't spell that wrong it's just the Canadian version

I don't feel that I'm strictly Danish I don't feel that my sense of humor is strictly Danish or my human sensibility is strictly Danish.

Nationality is the miracle of political independence; race is the principle of physical analogy.

I prefer to be in the grave in Colombia than in a jail cell in the United States.

Other people have a nationality. The Irish and the Jews have a psychosis.

I'll never forget where I'm from, never forget my roots. It doesn't matter where I live. I'm English, simple as that.

Jews have had to carry around their own sense of self in a carpet bag and I think perhaps too much emphasis might be being put on nationality and on the other hand patriotism, that sort of thing.