Quotes About Nationality

A mí me falla el cristianismo a cada rato, Nuria. Será que soy vasco y bruto, como mi padre, que en paz descanse; digo yo que si hubiera nacido en Luxemburgo tal vez no estaría tan indignado.

I still present myself as a New Zealander, answering people's questions about New Zealand and contributing in my own unlikely way to the global perception that Kiwis can and do fly high.

I was born in New Zealand, and I was raised in Australia, and I'm very proud of that.

I'm always going to be a New Zealand fighter. I'm a Kiwi, of course, and I've still got my New Zealand passport.

Israeli Arabs don't have to go. But if they stay, they have to take an oath of allegiance to Israel as a Jewish Zionist state.

Abu Mazen is not a member of the Zionist movement. He is a Palestinian.

The Englishman is under no constitutional obligation to believe that all men are created equal. The American agony is therefore scarcely intelligible, like a saint's self-flagellation viewed by an atheist.

A Bostonian - an American, broadly speaking.

Some Americans need hyphens in their names, because only part of them has come over; but when the whole man has come over, heart and thought and all, the hyphen drops of its own weight out of his name.

To me it's very obvious there are huge cultural differences between Americans and Canadians. But a lot of what we are is American.

Never hear anything bad about Canada, that's one thing - in fact, I guess it's the only thing.

When I stand on a street in a Canadian city and look across the street, it couldn't be anywhere but Canada, but how can I prove it?

The Canadian is often a baffled man because he feels different from his British kindred and his American neighbours, sharply refused to be lumped together with either of them, yet cannot make plain his difference.

Actually, when it comes to knocking the Canadian cultural scene, nobody outdoes Canadians, myself included. We are veritable masters of self-deprecation.

Canadians are generally indistinguishable from Americans, and the surest way of telling the two apart is to make the observation to a Canadian.

The Canadian spirit is cautious, observant and critical where the American is assertive.

The habitant is the true Canadian, for he has no other country.

Historically, a Canadian is an American who rejects the Revolution.

You can be a French Canadian or an English Canadian, but not a Canadian. We know how to live without an identity, and this is one of our marvellous resources.

Paul said, I am a man which am a Jew of Tarsus, a city in Cilicia, a citizen of no mean city.

It is impossible for an Englishman to open his mouth without making some other Englishman despise him.

Remember that you are an Englishman and consequently have won first prize in the lottery of life.

One matter Englishmen don't think in the least funny is their happy consciousness of possessing a deep sense of humour.

A Scotch mist may wet an Englishman to the skin.