Quotes About Nationality

Damn it all, MacMurrough, are you telling me you are an unspeakable of the Oscar Wilde sort?' 'If you mean am I Irish, the answer is yes.

I don't hate the English and I don't know do I love the Irish. But I love him. I'm sure of that now. And he's my country.

Living in China has made me appreciate my own country, with its tiny, ethnically diverse population of unassuming donut-eaters.

I know that sounds odd, but I have always felt that the English love children as long as they are polite, quiet, and well behaved. Americans seem to love children however they behave.

She knew that the Germans were unhappy, but like everyone else, she thought Germans were always unhappy.

We shall never understand the ethical system taught by Jesus unless we realize that he was a Jew, not only by birth, but that he lived and taught as a Jew; the Sermon on the Mount was addressed to his distracted fellow nationals.

I am a naturalized U.S. citizen, which means that, unlike native-born citizens, I had to prove to the U.S. government that I merited citizenship.

All the things that are part of your heritage make you British - that makes this country what it is. It's part of your history. And here, unlike America, it's still living history.

Because we are a small country, unlike England, Italy, or Brazil, we don't have as many good players.

Maybe we are all prospective migrants. The lines of national borders on maps are artificial constructs, as unnatural to us as they are to birds flying overhead. Our first impulse is to ignore them.

I have often said I come from a family of unreliable narrators. I tend to believe their struggles with racism, identity, nationality do dovetail with my motivation to write.

As a Canadian, we are sort of inherently built with an unshakable humility that at times can work against you.

When I was a kid in my neighborhood, there was nobody that supported Belgium. It was impossible and unthinkable because there was nothing they could relate to.

The humiliating idea that we just slide from the top E.U. table to third country is unthinkable.

The Americans love me because I'm so completely unwilling to change my whole Britishness.

It seems to me that the Swedish Academy of Science may be qualifying for the Nobel Peace Prize. It recognises no nationality; it discourages unworthy national feeling and prejudice.

If you are in your sport for your country, you should be able to go to the Olympic Games and represent your sport for your country bringing people together in the interests of sport. It's a fantastic Olympic ideal, and I uphold it as much as I can.

Given this voice, I know it does sound like I've come from money. But my dad was Canadian and my mum Hungarian, so it's not like I have some high-society, upper-class English background.

I was really upset because I was branded as an enemy alien when I'm an American.

I struggle to understand why many in football get so upset about dual nationality.

In my opinion, British women are more romantic than French ones.

Some fatherlands are difficult. Germany is one of them. But it is our fatherland. Here is where we live and work.

I am Albanian by birth. Now I am a citizen of India. I am also a Catholic nun. In my work, I belong to the whole world. But in my heart, I belong to Christ.

If science has no country, the scientist should have one, and ascribe to it the influence which his works may have in this world.