Quotes About Nationality

I am constantly disappointing people up in Scotland by not being Scottish!

The British, I have discovered, assume that Americans are more religious than they are.

I think only a real Indian can defeat a fake Indian.

An Englishman will fairly drink as much As will maintain two families of Dutch.

Chileans have this rumor that they're great soccer players, but I stunk as a soccer player. I always had to hide my nationality when they were picking teams because, just by the look of me, they would think that I was a great soccer player.

I think it has something to do with being British. We don't take ourselves as seriously as some other countries do. I think a lot of people take themselves far too seriously; I find that a very tedious attitude.

American actors are all muscular, tanned, white teeth and they have this indestructible confidence. We British are all... Dare I say it? Pessimistic.

What would you do in order to marry Sophia Loren? I think anyone would become French to marry Sophia Loren. Love was more important than nationality. The cultural heritage of that country and my parents is so interlaced that it really doesn't matter that a piece of paper tells them they're French.

I don't feel Swedish. In fact, my father tells me to get out of here as soon as I can.

I can speak Odiya, Telugu, apart from Hindi and a little bit of Rajasthani, so, truly Indian from that context.

Nationality is a very curious thing. The blood is Scots and the temperament is Scots, but I am, in fact, 100% American.

British girls are as temperamental as Americans.

I may have been born in Tel Aviv, but my umbilical cord emerges from the Temple Mount.

It was the type of generic statement Tracy had heard often as a police officer when someone had no specific or rational answer to one of her questions. Instead, they accused her of being a racist. "I'm Norwegian and Swiss," she said. "And a little Irish. What did I rip off from you?

La vergüenza de la rendición francesa del sanjacato (distrito provincial) de Alejandreta —incluido Musa Dag— es una de las historias en buena parte no desveladas de la segunda guerra mundial. El temor a que Turquía se uniera al Eje alemán como había hecho en la guerra de 1914-1918 llevó a Francia a aceptar un referéndum en Alejandreta de modo que los habitantes armenios y turcos pudieran elegir su nacionalidad.

Would I call myself English?' he mused aloud. 'No, I'd probably say British.

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.

I never felt myself an expatriate or anything but an American, but not through some excess of patriotism. My country is much too polyglot of race, type, and variety of faith, political and otherwise, for me to discover exactly to which qualities one would have to remain loyal in order to be a hundred per cent American.

The barber's assistant asks if I am a Swede. An American? Not that either. A Russian? Well, then, what are you? I love to answer such nationalistically tinted questions with a steely silence, and to leave people who ask me about my patriotic feelings in the dark. Or I tell lies and say that I'm Danish. Some kinds of frankness are only hurtful and boring.

Nobody told me he was an American. Not American—Canadian. Well, what's the difference? They're touchier, that's what.

was. Is she ours? French? British?" For long seconds Caleb studied the incoming fleck. "Can't tell." "How many? We got the whole British

And most people stick to underwear from their country of origin." "Do they?" "As a general rule. It's a comfort issue, literally and metaphorically. And an intimacy issue. It's a big step, putting on foreign underwear. Like betrayal, or emigration.

They were Ukrainians," I said. "Is there a difference?" "I'm sure the Ukrainians think so. The Russians put their minorities out front, and their minorities didn't like it.

Perhaps we half and halfs should always make a choice, one nationality instead of the other, one language instead of the other. We should nourish one identity and starve the other so that it would atrophy and drop off. Then we could relax and become like everyone else, we could snuggle up to the majority and fit in.