Quotes About Nationality

In becoming a citizen, one undertakes certain duties and responsibilities. One of the more intangible of those duties and responsibilities is no matter what one's birth and background, to accept the historical past of the new country as one's own.

Those Frenchies may know their pastry, but you can't beat a bit of British cheese.

I'm not sure I'm the prototypical Patriot.

We like being English, but we're not that patriotic.

Jews have had to carry around their own sense of self in a carpet bag and I think perhaps too much emphasis might be being put on nationality and on the other hand patriotism, that sort of thing.

God doesn't really have to have a concern for my patriotism, but I am an American, and we were blessed to be born in America.

It is important to remember that John Paul II was not an American or a Frenchman.

Scratch a Russian, and you'll find a peasant.

People say my music is English. I don't know what it is. Maybe it's not me writing English music, but that English music is becoming more like me.

It can be difficult for players who are perceived to have turned their backs on England, as Wilfried Zaha has found out after deciding to play for Ivory Coast.

I became an American in 2006. It got me thinking about what is my America and what's my perception of America.

There is still this perception in football about whether people are 'English through and through.' Essentially there is not any such thing without going into a whole discussion on genetics and bloodlines of each player.

It really hurt me when there was this perception that I didn't want to play for Scotland. I was fuming, absolutely gutted.

There's so much negativity over this issue of dual nationality - nearly always from people who don't have mixed family backgrounds and don't understand that it's perfectly natural for those of us who do, to feel loyalty to more than one country.

Few Iranians these days go through the fiction of calling themselves 'Persian.' Calling yourself Persian is a way of distancing themselves from Iran.

Every country can be defined through their food, their music and their language. That's the soul of a country.

Why is it that you live in such a place yet consider the world so dangerous?" "I'm an American.

And he was more Irish in America than he'd ever been at home.

He spoke a refined and formal kind of English that did not seem wholly natural, as though at some point it had been applied to him carefully with a brush, like paint. I asked him what his nationality was. 'I was sent to an English boarding school at the age of seven,' he replied. 'You might say I have the mannerisms of an Englishman but the heart of a Greek. I am told,' he added, 'it would be much worse the other way around.

I'm not an American, Do they count the votes in America? I haven't voted in Jamaica either.

I want to say that I can be Moroccan and speak about someone without speaking about his nationality. Because, you know, I have the feeling that when you come from Morocco, when you come from Afghanistan, when you come from Africa, Occidental people always wait for you to write a novel about identity.

Wake up, America. With a porous southern border, we have no idea who's in our country.

My parents were always Welsh-speaking and very proud of Wales.

I get the Swansea-Cardiff thing: I was a Swansea player; I loved playing against Cardiff. But when I played for Wales and played with Jason Perry or Nathan Blake, I never saw them as blue and white and me as black and white.