Quotes About Nationality

I of course took the opportunity to interpose wi' pig-headed Wallace pride, 'I am not English, you ignorant Jerry bastard, I am a SCOT.

p'tit morceau de merde écossaise.

În sufletul meu m? simt ÅŸi român ÅŸi ungur, poate mai mult ungur decât român.

It is no nation that we inhabit, but a language." "Make no mistake; our native tongue is our true fatherland.

If you really want to be universal, do it from your own country.

It made me excessively angry to be called a blooming Yank. I am a Yankee, and I have been known to bloom, but I can't stand having a low-class Britisher apply that term to me as if it were an opprobrious thing to be.

There is not a liberal America and a conservative America - there is the United States of America. There is not a black America and a white America and latino America and asian America - there's the United States of America.

Without a country, you are the basket of humanity.

In Britain I'm sometimes regarded as a suspiciously Europeanized writer, who has this rather dubious French influence. But if you try that line in Europe, especially in France, they say, Oh, no! You're so English! I think I'm probably anchored somewhere in the Channel.

I will stay living in Staffordshire. Other people would be moving offshore. I am reasonably happy to help support the British economy. I have done very well out of Britain.

Most of the discrimination I have encountered centered on the view that I am not a part of this great nation, even though I grew up in Ohio, graduated from law school in Washington, D.C., and received my commission in the U.S. Air Force in 1991.

I have always been considered to be the most German among Italian economists, which I always received as a compliment, but was rarely meant to be one.

You have to go through a mental and emotional process to recognize who you really are. I finally recognized that I cannot be defined by one country.

I'm extremely well recognized in Korea just because of what I do on the ice, and there is a lack of that in Canada because hockey is our sport and it will be for eternity.

Most commonly, I've been recognized from people who aren't actually from England.

I wish I could be proud of being an Israeli citizen, but how can I do that when I'm not really recognized as a full citizen?

When Coach Mike Brey at Notre Dame was recruiting me, he was like, 'There will be Irish on the front of the jersey; and Irish on the back of the jersey.' But no one actually knows I am a citizen over there.

The Ivory Coast had been begging for ages. The country and the fans love me already, and I haven't even done anything. I may not get the red carpet - it may not have the same Nike deals as when you play for England - but I'm going to be playing, I'm going to be loved, and that's all I want. Nothing else.

My entire act is through and through British. I reference everything British.

I just feel like a Filipina, a Filipino woman, and it just so happens that when I was growing up, I was very much an Australian, and I think you can be both.

I'm definitely an American, because I grew up here. But I've lived very happily in Britain.

I have dual citizenship; I would be happy to go to England. I would be very happy to go to America.

I hope this doesn't sound harsh, but if you're not constantly craving breakfast every second of every day, you're not a real American. Y'know what, let's throw the Canadians in there, too.

I think, as a country, that we can be quite harsh on ourselves.