Quotes About Nationality

Obama does not like the issue of where he was born.

I've had nights where it's very obvious that I'm the good guy, but I'm still booed, and you can kind of make a checklist about reasons why they're booing me, and one of the evident ones is because of my name and where I'm from.

I'm obviously an American citizen. My parents are American citizens. But I'm not looked at as an American.

Obviously, I'd love to play for my country.

As for my country, I don't live there, but obviously I'm very proud to be Canadian.

The Irish are the only men who know how to cry for the dirty polluted blood of all the world.

Credevo (e credo) che una tradizione poetica non si definisca attraverso il concetto politico di nazionalità ma attraverso la lingua e i rapporti che s'intessono tra gli stili e i loro creatori.

Most of the time, being a Turk is either an excuse or a pretext for evil.

The overarching subject of all these works was Russia – its character, its history, its customs and conventions, its spiritual essence and its destiny. In a way that was extraordinary, if not unique to Russia, the country's artistic energy was almost wholly given to the quest to grasp the idea of its nationality.

When good Americans die, they go to Paris'. 'Where do bad Americans go?' 'They stay in America'.

Qual es lo peor: Que soy pobre o que soy americano?

I think the dead have no nationality.

When in doubt about who's to blame. Blame the English.

In the superficial activity of her life, she was all English. She even thought in English. But her long blanks and darkness of abstraction were Polish.

The Dutchman voyages home, and the Scotchman and Welchman voyage home . . . and the native of the Mediterranean voyages home; To every port of England and France and Spain enter wellfilled ships; The Swiss foots it toward his hills . . . the Prussian goes his way, and the Hungarian his way, and the Pole goes his way, The Swede returns, and the Dane and Norwegian return.

G. K. Chesterton described as "a taboo of tact or convention, whereby we are free to say that a man does this or that because of his nationality, or his profession, or his place of residence, or his hobby, but not because of his creed about the very cosmos in which he lives.

Who gets to be an American? What does an American look like?

Willis is] asking to be treated like an American. A real American. Because, honestly, when you think American, what color do you see? White? Black? We've been here two hundred years. Why doesn't this face register as American?

He's asking to be treated like an American. A real American. Because, honestly, when you think American, what color do you see? White? Black?

Besides, American ought to be a good thing, the kind of thing that brings everybody together instead of deciding who's good enough to be one and who isn't.

Hij kwam binnen in de lappenjas van een afkorting N.S.M.A.N.N. (Nederlandse Schrijver van Marokkaanse Afkomst met Nederlandse Nationaliteit), maar ging weer weg, na een goede rui, een verlies van overbodige veren, als auteur. Hij is stukken magerder geworden, maar gelukkiger. Noem hem voortaan simpelweg auteur.

The literature of a people must so ring from the sense of its nationality; and nationality is impossible without self-respect, and self-respect is impossible without liberty.

France is France and a grand place for Frenchman.

Poor Englishwomen! When it comes to their clothes--well, the French reaction is a shrug, the Italian reaction a spreading of the hands and a lifting of the eyes and the American reaction simply one of amused contempt.