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Quotes About Nationality

If I had a choice, I'd rather not fight someone from Brazil, but as a professional, I couldn't say no.
~ Lyoto Machida
I call myself Zimerican. I was born in the Midwest to Zimbabwean parents. My father was a professor at Grinnell College in Iowa.
~ Danai Gurira
Who can doubt that between the English and the French, between the Scotch and the Irish, there are differences of character which have profoundly affected and still affect the course of history?
~ Goldwin Smith
I want to tell stories about Europe - I feel profoundly European, I don't feel like an American.
~ Roger Michell
I'm not partial to any system, but at the same time, I'm a Korean actor, so I expect to work mainly on Korean projects.
~ Bae Doona
As you know, I am neither Roman Catholic, Protestant Episcopalian, nor Presbyterian, nor am I an Irishman.
~ John Bright
I do not understand why Muslims are protesting against the Citizenship Amendment Act. CAA is not for the Muslims who were born here.
~ Raj Thackeray
I'm a proud Greek. I carry my Hellenism like a badge of merit.
~ Telly Savalas
We feel free. We're independent. People can be openly proud of being Estonian. I have a lot of belief in Estonia.
~ Carmen Kass
So I think that I can say, as the President of Poland, we're proud that I am coming from Poland, which is different and what's more important, much better than before.
~ Aleksander Kwasniewski
I happen to consider myself a Highlander even before a Scot; I am proud to be British yet feel comfortable as a European citizen.
~ Charles Kennedy
I have the Mexican blood. I'm proud to be Mexican.
~ Cain Velasquez
I am very proud to be Irish.
~ Philip Treacy
I'm one hundred percent Irish, and I'm very proud that I'm Irish American, though I don't know exactly where my ancestors came from. I just know County Cork.
~ Michael Connelly
I am proud to be an American Citizen.
~ Robert Purvis
With disadvantages enough to bring him to humility, a Scotsman is one of the proudest things alive.
~ Oliver Goldsmith
I live in the part of Bosnia-Herzegovina where we are the only Croatians, and we are the proudest in the world.
~ Ivica Zubac
I was fortunate enough to be an American citizen by birth and I have the birth certificate to prove it.
~ Raul Labrador
To the American, English writers are like prim spinsters fidgeting with the china, punctilious about good taste, and inwardly full of thwarted, tepid and perverse passions. We see the Americans as gushing adolescents, repetitive and slangy, rather nasty sometimes in their zest for violence and bad language.
~ Evelyn Waugh
Most of my day is spent dealing with pathetic people of confused nationality seeking to escape the horrors of liberation.
~ Evelyn Waugh
I'm half French, and I was educated in England and since I was eighteen I've worn the uniforms of eight countries.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
American men," said Nancy gravely, "don't know how to drink." "What?" Jim was startled. "In fact," she went on carelessly, "they don't know how to do anything very well. The one thing I regret in my life is that I wasn't born in England." "In England?" "Yes. It's the one regret of my life that I wasn't.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
O futuro de Portugal - que não calculo, mas sei - está escrito já, para quem saiba lê-lo, nas trovas de Bandarra, e também nas quadras de Nostradamus. Esse futuro é sermos tudo. Quem, que seja português, pode viver a estreiteza de uma só personalidade, de uma só nação, de uma só fé?
~ Fernando Pessoa
Minha pátria é a língua portuguesa
~ Fernando Pessoa