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Quotes About Nationality

I can be described as many things, but no description of me is complete without saying 'Englishman.' My parents were from Liverpool and emigrated to Canada before I was born.
~ Mike Myers
I feel as much British as I do American. There's not much difference between our countries.
~ John McAfee
We believe that God is big enough to give every nationality their own religion, as he's given them their own taste in food, in plants, in furniture, and housing. I think that each religion has their basic Christ-ish way to get to the Everlasting God.
~ Duane Chapman
I have a freaking tattoo of Bulgaria on my shoulder. I'm proud of it.
~ Rusev
I am and will remain a tax resident in France and in this regard I will, like all French people, fulfill my fiscal obligations.
~ Bernard Arnault
I was determined not to become an American citizen but I did it for completely cynical reasons: to avoid paying inheritance tax in the U.S.
~ Emily Mortimer
I had applied to become French - or, rather, Franco-American, as I'm now a dual citizen - partly because I could: I'd lived and paid taxes here for long enough.
~ Pamela Druckerman
I'm proud of my Korean heritage, but I want people to know I'm American. It's not important to be the Korean Taylor Swift.
~ Chloe Kim
When I started to play football, when I was around 15, 16, I remember the players that played on the national team and noticed that it was only typically Swedish guys.
~ Zlatan Ibrahimovic
My Mother is Swedish and my Father is Scottish, he played for Charlton in the 1960's and was in the Army, he captained the British forces team. We then moved to S.A. because a lot of players did that at the time.
~ Richard Gough
I was able to represent my country and put on the red, white, and blue - how many people in the world get to do that? Standing on the podium with my teammates, and being the first women's gymnastics team to win this gold medal, it was life-changing!
~ Dominique Moceanu
British!Deadpool: "No, it's no good. I can feel that an American's having a major battle. For some bizarre reason I feel utterly compelled to get involved.
~ Rob Williams
You speak English beautifully, which means you can't be English.
~ Robert Aickman
Carl Friedrich captured the distinction in 1935: "To be an American is an ideal, while to be a Frenchman is a fact.
~ Robert B Reich
the nationality policy
~ Robert C. Tucker
who had the advantage of seeming to be an American without the disadvantage of actually being one; and Adeyemi
~ Robert Harris
I think you know that I classify science as British science, American science, and everybody else.
~ Martin Fleischmann
Parisians believe they are superior by birth, they do not believe, as Americans do, that they are invulnerable by right.
~ Adam Gopnik
A merchant, it has been said very properly, is not necessarily the citizen of any particular country.
~ Adam Smith
It is easier to think in a foreign language than to feel in it. Therefore no art is more stubbornly national than poetry.
~ Alan Jacobs
Mr. Berg, Are you an Afrikaner? - Yes -And are you proud of it? -I am not ashamed of it, but I am not proud of it, for in fact I had nothing to do with it.
~ Alan Paton
Nationality?" Valkyrie asked. Sleave laughed. "Don't you know? Irish, of course. The most evil people in the world are Irish.
~ Derek Landy
You can only forgive a man if you don't love him. One's countrymen are always a humiliation for the traveler, whatever the country.
~ Diane Johnson
The Hugel story, in many ways, is the story of Alsace. "My grandfather had to change his nationality four times," Johnny's brother André said. Grandfather Emile was born in 1869. He was born French, but two years later, in 1871, Alsace was taken over by Germany after the Franco-Prussian War, and he became German. The end of World War I in 1918 made him French again. In 1940, when Alsace was annexed, he was forced to become German.
~ Don Kladstrup