Quotes About Nationality

I disagree with the concept that somehow or another we're going to pack up 10, to 12, to 15 million people and ship them back to the country of origin. That's not going to happen.

Suddenly, just in time, I realised that he was a filthy Hun, so of course I turned my back on him and refused to shake hands. I think he noticed; anyway, I hope so. I hope he felt his position - General Murgatroyd

El mal presupone una determinación moral, intención y cierto pensamiento. El imbécil o cafre no se para a pensar ni a razonar. Actúa por instinto, como bestia de establo, convencido de que hace el bien, de que siempre tiene la razón y orgulloso de ir jodiendo, con perdón, a todo aquel que se le antoja diferente a él mismo, bien sea por color, por creencia, por idioma, por nacionalidad

In fact I don't think of literature, or music, or any art form as having a nationality. Where you're born is simply an accident of fate. I don't see why I shouldn't be more interested in say, Dickens, than in an author from Barcelona simply because I wasn't born in the UK. I do not have an ethno-centric view of things, much less of literature. Books hold no passports. There's only one true literary tradition: the human.

I was, by the way - I'm an Essex lad, born and raised in Essex in the U.K.

America, ladies and gentlemen, has done more for me financially than Britain ever has, or ever could have done.

I feel very, very French, especially when I land in France.

I certainly know German colleagues in the U.S. who try to be Americans, try to melt into Americanism, even before they get married and become American citizens. But I've never tried that.

I'm a Canadian citizen. But I always want to feel at home in Sri Lanka. I'm a member of both countries.

I'm still a member of the Empire! Although I sometimes feel like an American with a British accent - you get contaminated after so long.

I still feel Ghanaian, but my mentality is more European.

The pride you feel when you represent your country, not to mention scoring, is something you can't really explain. It's massive.

I just mentioned how my sports car is European, and that is the extent of how I like Europeans, is in my cars.

I'm half-Irish, half-Dutch, and I was born in Belgium. If I was a dog, I'd be in a hell of a mess!

Yes, I would have wanted Messi to be born in Brazil.

I'm Argentine, and that's why I admire Messi most.

Messi is an ambassador of Argentina, and I am also proud of him as an Argentine.

Yes, I am a Mexican, and I have a past and a culture. But what matters is the film itself, not where it was financed or cast.

I am Mexican, and people tend to forget that.

Everyone who thinks I'm not Mexican simply because I was born in the United States is wrong.

I'm an authentic Mexican.

Mexicans are quasi-legal.

I'm a Trump guy. I wasn't in the beginning, of course. I'm Mexican, when he said we need to take all the Mexicans out of United States... well, good luck on that one. They'll find a way to get back here anyways.

If I could not be in this free and wonderful country - I wouldn't want to be anywhere else, mind you - Mexico is where I would live. I love Mexico, and I love the Mexican people.