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Quotes About Nationality

I'm in fact Australian but my mother's English so I've got no problem playing a domineering English woman.
~ Jacki Weaver
By the early seventies I had become an Englishman – that is to say, I hated England just as much as half of my compatriots seemed to do.
~ Nick Hornby
Già sono italiano, non posso essere anche cattolico! E' troppo!
~ Chuck Palahniuk
I neither like nor approve of this government." "But as you note, you are American. Which means this is your government as much as it is mine." "This government hasn't been mine in a long time." One of those types. "You and I are going to have to differ on that point. I say you live here, it's your government. All the bells and whistles. All the warts and wrinkles.
~ Chuck Wendig
For," the outsider will say, "in fact, as a woman, I have no country. As a woman I want no country.
~ Virginia Woolf
We're English. There's no cure for that.
~ Lars Iyer
Sean asked her if she was an Olympic weight lifter. "No," she said. "I am Polish.
~ Laura Ruby
The French just said he was a damned nuisance. Or they would have had they the good fortune to speak English. Instead being French they were forced to say it in their own language.
~ Lauren Willig
Then there was the question of Magellan's nationality.
~ Laurence Bergreen
Never invite someone who is speaking a foreign language in your presence to "Go back to your country." The only time that phrase is every acceptable is if you are British and you are speaking to Madonna.
~ Celia Rivenbark
We finally drove the Germans back and we entered the Alsace-Lorraine region, which is part French and part German.
~ Charles Brandt
If I knew something that would serve my country but would harm mankind, I would never reveal it; for I am a citizen of humanity first and by necessity, and a citizen of France second, and only by accident.
~ Charles de Montesquieu
The French are the greatest cuckolds to be found in the world. There is unquestionably less cuckoldry in Germany.
~ Charles Fourier
Meiguoren! Meiguoren!
~ Grace Lin
I have to hear this all the time in England: "Well, all Americans are fat and stupid, mm-hm-hm-hm-hm." Really? Well, thanks for sending over the best and brightest to start the party. Maybe we can send a few freaky, Texas, militia, hate-group, gun-toting weirdoes back to your country.
~ Greg Proops
She had lived in Iceland from birth, a total of 36 years, without knowing that she had the right to live, work and vote in the USA.
~ Gudjon Bergmann
El indigenismo nace con los primeros gobiernos de la Revolución. Su libro fundador, Forjando patria, de Manuel Gamio, es de 1916. Su idea rectora es "atender al indígena" para que deje de ser indígena, para incorporarlo a la nacionalidad mexicana y a la cultura occidental. La divisa es desindigenizar mexicanizando. Y viceversa: mexicanizar indianizándose.
~ Héctor Aguilar Camín
México y la unidad revolucionaria de los mexicanos se vuelven en esos años verdaderos fusiles ideológicos apuntados contra los adversarios de la línea oficial que, por definición, encarna los mejores afanes de la Revolución, del pueblo y de la nacionalidad.
~ Héctor Aguilar Camín
The soul ... has a slow and dark birth, more mysterious than the birth of the body. When the soul of a man is born in this country there are nets flung at it to hold it back from flight. You talk to me of nationality, language, religion. I shall try to fly by those nets.
~ James Joyce
The soul is born, he said vaguely, first in those moments I told you of. It has a slow and dark birth, more mysterious than the birth of the body. When the soul of a man is born in this country there are nets flung at it to hold it back from flight. You talk to me of nationality, language, religion. I shall try to fly by those nets.
~ James Joyce
When the soul of a man is born in this country there are nets flung at it to hold it back from flight. You talk to me of nationality, language, religion. I shall try to fly by those nets.
~ James Joyce
You suspect, Stephen retorted with a sort of a half laugh, that I may be important because I belong to the fauborgh Saint Patrice called Ireland for short. —I would go a step farther, Mr Bloom insinuated. —But I suspect, Stephen interrupted, that Ireland must be important because it belongs to me.
~ James Joyce
The soul is born, he sad vaguely, first in those moments I told you of. It has a slow and dark birth, more mysterious than the birth of the body. When the soul of a man is born in this country there are nets flung at it to hold it back from flight. You talk to me of nationality, language, religion. I shall try to fly by those nets.
~ James Joyce
Ben birleÅŸme lehine rey veren Sir John Blackwood'un sulbündenim. Hepimiz İrlandal?y?z, kral oÄŸluyuz hepimiz. Yaz?k, dedi Stephen.
~ James Joyce, Ulysses