Quotes About Nationality

The truth is that James, like many other great writers and artists, had chosen his own loyalties and nationality. His true country, his home, was that of the imagination.

Which is exactly what Donald Trump understood when he started peddling assertions that I had not been born in the United States and was thus an illegitimate president. For millions of Americans spooked by a Black man in the White House, he promised an elixir for their racial anxiety. The suggestion that I hadn't been born in the United States wasn't new. At least one conservative crank had pushed the theory as far back as my Senate race in Illinois.

Chris: How do you know if a Frenchman has been in your backyard? Teddy: Hey, I'm French, okay? Chris: Your garbage cans are empty and your dog's pregnant. [Chris and Gordie laugh] Teddy: Didn't I just say I was French?

Just Like Canada, with Better Bacon.

People in every country underestimate the proportion of their compatriots who say they are happy, by an average of 42 percentage points.

I love my country. And I would have to renounce my Spanish citizenship to become a U.S. Citizen.

If you love Senegal so much, why don't you play for them?

Am I Latin? Am I American? What the hell am I? I love my culture and I'm very proud of my culture

My parents were French and Irish and our family even has Spanish blood-and I do so love the United States and consider myself part American.

I wouldn't make an anti-American film. I'm one of the most pro-American foreigners I know. I love America and Americans.

La verdad es que mientras más enojado estoy con este país y más lejos viajo, más mexicano me siento.

I am a Spaniard, that is to say, a man without imagination.

Hans kone, dronning Victoria Eugenia, sa om ham: Han er munter som en latiner, høflig som en habsburger, sportslig som en engelskmann, stolt som en spanjol og like egoistisk som enhver annen mann.

Now, there is no such thing as 'man' in this world. In my life I have seen Frenchmen, Italians, Russians, and so on. I even know, thanks to Montesquieu, that one can be Persian. But as for man, I declare I've never encountered him.

Country boys turned out to be the fittest, producing 4.8 percent more able-bodied draftees per 100,000 than city boys. Whites were 1.2 percent more physically qualified than blacks and native-born Americans 3.5 percent more than those foreign-born.

They had far more in common than either realised. One was born Catholic, the other Protestant. One was born Irish, the other British. But neither was the greatest difference between them. One was born rich and the other poor.

Von der Humanität durch Nationalität zur Bestialität.

Un nicaragüense no se siente verdaderamente nicaragüense si no ha viajado. Aunque sea a Costa Rica. El nicaragüense adquiere su verdadera nacionalidad hasta que ha viajado".

The romance of treason never occurred to us for the brutally simple reason that you can't betray a country you don't have," James Baldwin writes. You can't be a traitor if you've never been a citizen.

Pakistan is not the torch-bearer of Islam, and if I change my country, it doesn't mean that I have to change my religion.

A powerful way to sidestep America's reluctance to become postracial would be for more black Americans to become postnational.

I'm an Indian-origin painter. I will remain so to my last breath.

I'm French - it's less important. Meaning, I remain a Frenchman in America, but I adapt to American culture. I feel good there - but I'm still a foreigner.

My head is in India, yet my body remains in Britain. I straddle the world like a colossus. Like a 5ft. 7in. colossus.