Quotes About Nationality

You go in there to be Irish, Danny thinks, as if you're not already, as if you can get away from it anywhere anyway.

I love being Canadian. I think growing up in Canada gives you a world perspective that I certainly enjoy.

He's American," corrected Tarnie. "That's not weird. Well, you know. It is a bit weird but it's not his fault.

But Faiers had decided that you didn't have to be English to be 'English'. 'The actor James Stewart, for example, he was American, but he had Englishness. He didn't brag about himself. He wasn't pushy. He had one wife all his life. You could trust him with your wallet. That's English.

State and home country, there's a difference

That I am a foreigner is not my fault. I would rather have been born here.

like many people living in Europe, he would rather have been in America

What are you called? Georgette. How are you called? Jacob. That's a Flemish name. American too. You're not Flamand? No, American. Good, I detest Flamands.

The Duke was strongly pro-German, indeed considered himself almost German, telling Diana Mosley, 'Every drop of blood in my veins is German.'15 He spoke German fluently and sometimes referred to it as his mother tongue and had spent most of his summers before the First World War visiting German relatives. The murder of his Russian relations in 1918 had had a profound influence on him and he always considered communism as the real threat to Britain's interests and empire.

As my father is British, I am seriously considering renouncing my American citizenship.

life, she had decided that the English were not

Money has no fatherland, Geralt. The merchants don't care whose rule they make their money under.

Wygodniej by? Polakiem, bo skoro si? nim urodzi?e?, to masz wszystko na tacy. Masz gotowy patriotyzm, wszystkie odpowiedzi i pytania, nie musisz kszta?towa? si? w ?aden sposób, bo ci wystarcza ta polska to?samo??, do której zreszt? nie przy?o?y?e? r?ki. A czy jeste? ?wini?, czy zrobi?e? cokolwiek dobrego w tym ?yciu – to ju? niewa?ne.

Jeste?my uwi?zieni w stereotypach. Wci?? si? ogl?damy za siebie, czy aby idziemy kup?. W ko?cu ?atwiej pyta?, czy ze mnie Europejczyk, czy Polak, a trudniej, czy aby nie je?op albo i ?winia.

There was a difference between a German and a Nazi," Mr. Newman stated. "The Kriegsmarine had a lot of Germans . . . not so many Nazis.

I never felt totally 100%, patriotically English... I'd seen a lot of the world by an early age - sort of spent a lot of time traveling around Lebanon and I'd seen Babylon, and Damascus, and all sorts of places in the Middle East by the time I was ten. Then we'd return to Ruslip in West London... Done a fair bit of traveling really.

Action roles - or any role - should go to the best guy for the job. People obsess about nationality. Hollywood and America might be the hub for pop culture and cinema for the Western world, but that shouldn't suggest that all the roles should go to young American men.

What if the coach of Kosovo wants me as the captain? Of course, I am thinking about it then.

You can call me whatever you want to call me, but I am an American. No one can take that away from me. No, no one can.

They are not your players, they are loaned from the club. You just wheel them out for a game for England.

Let a man find himself, in distinction from others, on top of two wheels with a chain - at least in a poor country like Russia - and his vanity begins to swell out like his tires. In America it takes an automobile to produce this effect.

When I was a kid, I remember playing hockey outside and whenever you did, you thought about playing for Finland vs. Sweden. That's just the way it was.

Whenever I'm in the U.K., people say I have an American accent. Which is, obviously, funny.

OK, well maybe I have to get back to Judaism. In the sense that if I look at me and my forebears forever stretching back to I don't know, whenever there's no sense of place and therefore no sense of nationality.