Quotes About Nationality

If Ding keeps performing the way he has been doing then it is inevitable the World Championship will go to his country.

French citizenship should be either inherited or merited.

It's about time we stopped being so insecure and defensive and admitted that the Germans are better at economics than us. We like laughing and they like maths.

Being Australian, I sometimes feel I'll never walk into a dressing room and get that instant credibility because of where I'm from. But that's fine. Even in Australia, where I've had success, I never assumed that people would follow me because of who I am.

Being Australian, I sometimes feel I'll never walk into a dressing room and get that instant credibility because of where I'm from.

I was born in London. In a lot of ways I'm English, but I have this Iranianness, this culture instilled by my parents, by my family.

I'm really trying to dredge up what one might call intellectual and moral material. For example, when do you realize that you are an American? What age does that happen to you? When do you realize what religion your parents practice? When does it all become conscious? I was interested in exploring all of that.

The British keep employing me, and that makes me like them. It also makes me think they're very intelligent.

It was always said that the big distinction between the French and the English is that the English are intelligent and the French are intellectual.

MAVNI was never intended to be utilized for the benefit of illegal aliens.

I was born in Belgium but I never intended to play for Belgium. I never thought about that.

What happens is, illegal immigrants can run across the border, drop a baby, and say, 'Ha-ha, there's nothing you can do now. My kid's an American citizen.' Well, that wasn't the intent of the 14th Amendment. Americans would not agree with that. It creates a horrible incentive.

I'm fiercely proud to be Scottish.

There is a great promise for our cultural growth, but this promise is achieved only when our artists recognize that all great art has nationality, an imprimatur achieved with the keenest remembrance of time and place.

Porque así como la libertad está siempre limitada por la libertad de los demás, así, también, la nacionalidad propia está definida y restringida por las otras nacionalidades. Yo vuelvo a ser lo que había olvidado que soy cuando el otro afirma ante mí su otredad

Pero por qué me preocupa a mí Colombia si ya no es mía, es ajena?

Is that boy from your country?" she asked me. "Why, yes," I wanted to tell her. "In my country, which I own, this is National Lose Your Child at Disneyland Day." "No," I told her. "He's not from my country.

I'd always somehow felt slightly as if I'd been born in the wrong country.

I'm really proud to represent both cultures, Canadian and Indian, and hopefully I'm making both countries proud as WWE champion.

Yeah, I think that's sort of the American way. And it's also the Polish way, it turns out.

Yeah, I was born in Montreal and I go back to Vancouver and Toronto a lot, so I have a sense of being Canadian, and I was raised by two Canadians, and my wife is Canadian, so yeah, I feel it.

So many times I've encountered people who are just kind of like, 'Yeah, Nigeria,' and, you know, thump their chest and seem very sure of, like, being Nigerian. And I'm just kind of, like, I wish I could be that sure.

Yeah, we're sweet but savage, and I think a lot of Canadians are that way.

I'm Irish, yeah, but I don't need to get up on a soapbox about it.