Quotes About Nationality

The one big drawback to speaking German is that, by in large, you can only speak it with Germans.

In the gray areas of the French occupation, there is always this complication: the bad guys weren't always German. Sometimes they were French. Or British. Or American.

My father and mother emigrated to Canada in 1958, but there's nobody more English than an Englishman who no longer lives in England, and our home was a shrine to all things English.

We're like, 'Woah, are we even in that league where we get nominated for a VMA?' And yet our name is right down there among the other nominees. It's very, very strange coming from a country of five and a half million people.

I'm a dual citizen in a way. I live in the States and have a green card, so my connection to British politics is almost nonexistent.

The way I see it is that all the ol' guff about being Irish is a kind of nonsense. I mean, I couldn't be anything else no matter what I tried to be. I couldn't be Chinese or Japanese.

I feel more Scottish than Norman.

I lump Canada and the States together. I like good old North American boys.

Mohammed Taheri-Azar, a naturalized U.S. citizen hailing from Iran, crashed his SUV into a crowd at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2006, injuring nine people.

I have always thought of myself as being Northern Irish because that's what I am.

I was born in Northern Ireland, also known as Ulster, and I'm Scots-Irish, therefore.

I'm from Norway, but I always felt like I'd grown up with British culture.

I'm, like, half Norwegian and half Italian.

I dream in Norwegian, I count in Norwegian so that basically makes me Norwegian now, I suppose.

Thandie has no interest in race. She thinks it's just a Freudian concept by definition, and there's more genetic difference between a Kenyan and a Ugandan than there is between a Kenyan and a Norwegian... she believes entirely that nationality is nothing but accident.

I've never felt British. I'm just not interested in national identity. I don't know why.

I notice I have both African and Belgian characteristics.

Maybe I am not French, maybe I am from nowhere.

No, I'm not a French designer either. I'm from nowhere. I'm a European, old European is all I am.

American? Indian? I don't know what these words mean. In Italy, it is all about blood, family, where you come from. I'm asked where I am from. I'm from nowhere; I always was, but now I am happy knowing it.

There are things about this country that are horrible; there's things about this country that are beautiful. I've been almost everywhere, and there's nowhere else I'd rather live.

Oh, I love labels, as long as they are numerous. I'm an American writer. I'm a Nigerian writer. I'm a Nigerian American writer. I'm an African writer. I'm a Yoruba writer. I'm an African American writer.

I've said numerous times how proud I am to be Scottish and how proud I have been to compete for Britain, too, and I don't think these two things necessarily have to be mutually exclusive.

I was twice-born. I'm Mexican by nature and Hungarian by nurture.