Quotes About Nationality

With a character called Captain , you have to address the concept of who he is because his identity is tied to his country.

I've lived all my life in the U.S., but to be brutally honest, I don't really have any ties to the country apart from my mum and dad. Most of the rest of my family live in the Stockport area, and I've always related more to that side of my background.

You know why Polish jokes are so short?...So the Germans can remember them.

I know Im British. I havent spent much time in the U.K., but my parents are British, my family heritage is British, so if I wasnt British, what would I be? I am British.

No matter what nationality or color is champion, we Irish like to say that we have a heavyweight champion, Gene Tunney retired, who can come back and take the title at any time.

I feel, for the first time, ashamed to be an American because we elected [Donald Trump].

Había dejado de ser un peruano en muchos sentidos, sin duda. ¿Qué era, entonces? Tampoco había llegado a ser un europeo, ni en Francia, ni mucho menos en Inglaterra. ¿Qué eras, pues, Ricardito?

Was je dan nog steeds verliefd op je ongrijpbare landgenote, Ricardo Somocurcio? Geen twijfel mogelijk.

But is it her fault that she was born where she was born???

He was an American, so it seemed only fair to shoot him.

It would be folly to assume that an Indian Rockefeller would be better than an American Rockefeller.

Oh! do look at Miss Oriel's bonnet the next time you see her. I cannot understand why it should be so, but I am sure of this—no English fingers could put together such a bonnet as that; and I am nearly sure that no French fingers could do it in England.

If British planes appear, we duck. If American planes come over, everyone ducks. And if the Luftwaffe appears, nobody ducks.

The French produce the best second-raters in the world.

I am an Irishman, sir. Irish Irish? Yes, sir.

I have finally learned that I am as much a part of this country as those villagers. Whether they like it or not, my umbilical cord is buried in the earth of Vietnam just like theirs.

average Russian reads three times as many books a year as the average United States citizen.

American whose fathers have lived in the country for over two generations is so utterly different from any other American.

The whole object of my life has been to inculcate into Cornish people a sense of their Cornishness.

This race and this country and this life produced me, he said. I shall express myself as I am.

So much barbarism, however, still remains in the transactions of most civilized nations, that almost all independent countries choose to assert their nationality by having, to their inconvenience and that of their neighbors, a peculiar currency of their own.

The hyphenated American is ridiculous. But that's what we have to put up with. I think that any person that's in the United States is better off here than they would be where they came from.

They would be hyphenated people. Somali-American. What a strange thing, Abdikarim thought, to become hyphenated to a country now gratifying itself with the impression that all Somalis were pirates.

I, of course, took the opportunity to interpose with pigheaded Wallace pride, 'I am not English, you ignorant Jerry bastard, I am a SCOT.