Quotes About Nationality

Al Jazeera is a representation of, you know, diversity in the Arab world. In our newsroom, we have every single nationality, we have every single, you know, ideology, we have every single background. However, when it comes to the screen, we have one code of ethics and one code of conduct.

Winston Churchill was not entirely British. His mother was American, making Sir Winston part Iroquois Indian.

I was born in Poland, and then I was six years in France. I returned to Poland, and then, at the age of eight and a half, we came to Germany.

Once I really understood what skating was and what the Olympic really entailed, I knew that's what I wanted to do: I wanted to be there; I wanted to represent the U.S.

I just feel that if I'm English and writing about an American president, I have got to have someone on my side who can help me out when I'm lapsing into lazy or obvious European skepticism.

The Americans, like the English, probably make love worse than any other race.

I love America, and I love to say that my family is American.

I've been told I have an Irish temper, I know I have Scottish thrift, and, like the English, I love a good show.

I love England and I love cricket.

I love Canada, always.

It is much more easy for a Spanish person to love themselves than a Canadian person.

Could you imagine a busload from Milan parading around Trafalgar Square showing off their tattoos? "Why do you English behave like this?" one Italian asked me, believing that I was of the same nationality. "Is it something to do with being an island race? Is it because you don't feel European?

What was a foreigner, anyway? Is the place you're born the only place you really belong? At what point do you stop being from away and start being from here?

My mind may be American but my heart is British.

Bin gar keine Russin, stamm' aus Litauen, echt deutsch. I am not Russian at all; I come from Lithuania, I am a real German. (Eliot's translation)

Bin gar keine Russin, stamm' aus Litauen, echt deutsch

Bin gar keine Russin, stamm' aus Litauen, echt deutsch.

How could I be sure of these teeangers' national origin? Was I using names of origin to give them a place instead, when it was clear that they were moving toward a new language?

If this is the United States, mail me home.

I am not an Englishman, nor are you. Nor can we ever be, regardless of our foxtrots, our straight bats, our Jolly Goods and I Says. No more the Anglicized Percy, I. I am now Taimur Hind.

It's funny,' Rado says, 'I can only be Bulgarian when I'm in France. Here, I'm semi-French. Everything is funny and bizarre, and I laugh like someone watching a Beckett play. Except I am a Frenchman with Bulgarian memories. […] But I'll never be one of them. Ah, the filthy French!

Everything that I have is because I live in America. If I was in Iran, I wouldn't be in the UFC... But, I came here, and I got to do something amazing. And that's because of America.

I grew up thinking of myself as an American but also, because of my parents and the Iranian culture that was in our home, as an Iranian. So if there's any such thing as dual loyalty, then I have it - at least culturally.

I don't consider myself an Iranian comedian; I consider myself a comedian who happens to be of Iranian descent.