Quotes About Nationality

I'm more Filipino than I am German. I guess I shouldn't be ashamed to say that.

Every person is also a citizen of some country. In their country, they have rights and responsibilities. In every other country, they are a guest.

When you're a kid, what you learn in school about being German has a sort of heaviness about it, and you have a sort of guilt with you.

While I love college gymnastics, I'd like to try and compete for my country.

I'm like half Brazilian and half American now.

My education has been pro-England. I have been an England-minded citizen of Hamburg, and I am still in a way English-minded, but I have been disappointed by the Brits over the years.

There, I was ridiculed for being an inauthentic American, and now I am being charged with being an inauthentic Russian. I do not yet understand that this very paradox is the true subject of so-called immigrant fiction.

The 100% American is 99% idiot.

When I won the belt, it was kind of a precedent... The only Canadian to have ever held it.

I shouldn't be saying this - high treason, really - but I sometimes wonder if Americans aren't fooled by our accent into detecting brilliance that may not really be there.

Sometimes I wonder if people realise how beautiful and honourable I find it to play for my country.

Listeners will wonder what an Englishman is doing on the German radio tonight. You can imagine that before taking this step I hoped that someone better qualified than me would come forward.

Wonder Woman isn't even American; she's an Amazon princess.

I come from a wonderful country with wonderful people.

The fact is that most 'Irish-Americans', in spite of dropping the word 'Irish' into half of all sentences, couldn't find Europe on an atlas, let alone Ireland.

My children are mixed race. I want them to think: 'This is our country, our father's family has been here for thousands of years.'

I'm three-quarters Russian, so I've always felt an outsider. But I don't think you can be in a play with John Of Gaunt's 'This sceptred isle' speech and not feel proud to be British.

It's always a thrill to wear the flag and ride for Canada in any competition, but especially the Olympics.

I am American. If you drop me in Seoul, I don't think I'm going to thrive there.

I've been marching in every single ethnic nationality parade all throughout the City of New York. We're all Americans first and foremost, but people understand their heritage and it's good to see.

Citizenship must be precious, not handed out like candy in a parade. We don't ride along and throw out citizenship like you do M&M's or Tootsie Rolls or whatever it is we're tossing out in our parades.

I hate it when people in India throw in an American or English accent while rapping without even a passport in possession.

Whether at the Olympic Games or during a Davis Cup tie I am extremely proud and honored to represent my country.

I feel very tied to Ireland and the U.K. and that side of the world.