Quotes About Nationality

I was born in an enemy country. Only in America can someone who came from that beginning do what I am doing. It would never happen in Germany or Japan.

When playing for Japan, it means that I carry my country on my shoulders and I feel a different kind of pressure as I am expected to do more when playing for Japan.

I played behind the main striker at Dortmund, but I usually play on the left with Japan.

I'm not American. I still have my Japanese citizenship.

I don't really know what feeling Japanese or Haitian or American is supposed to feel like. I just feel like me.

It's an honour to be Japanese.

I'm not the ambassador of Japan or Japanese culture.

As proud as I am of being Polish-Canadian, sometimes I'm so jealous I wasn't born Italian.

When I put on the U.S. jersey, I play for myself, I play for my family, and I play for the team. That's really all I do.

Obviously, when I was playing in the Championship, I always dreamed about playing for England, putting on the jersey.

I'm a Jew. I think of myself as a Jew first and Englishman second.

Increasingly I feel like a Jew, an immigrant, a Russian - anything but a normal, mainstream American.

I am Jewish, Italian, American, Catholic.

I think of myself as being Jewish and Irish, despite the fact that I'm English.

I really don't even think of myself as being Jewish except when I'm in Germany.

I have one identity, and that's Israeli and Jewish. I don't view myself as an American citizen.

I couldn't lie anymore to my kids telling them that they are equal citizens in the state of Israel. They cannot be equal because in order to fit in and to be accepted and to be a citizen in Israel, you need a Jewish mother.

Jews can live their own life as Jews and yet be part of a different country.

The insular arrogance of the English character is a commonplace joke.

Forgetting, I would even say historical error, is essential to the creation of a nation, which is why the advance of historical study often poses a threat to nationality.

To have come from Ireland no matter how long ago is to be of Ireland in some part forever.

It's not enough to be American. You always have to be something else, Irish-American, German-American, and you'd wonder how they'd get along if someone hadn't invented the hyphen

But I hope you're not about to give me some kind of conspiracy theory. This is Norway, not America.

Der Weg der neuen Bildung geht von Humanität durch Nationalität zur Bestialität.