Quotes About Nationality

I represented Mexico trying to go to the Olympics.

Everyone wants to represent their country and my dream is to one day play in the Olympics.

Whenever you put on the Canadian jersey, it's an honor and it would be a huge honor to represent us at the Olympics.

I love the fact I am a Cuban American man who represented the United States in the Olympics. I was proud to wear the red-white-and-blue.

The characters in 'Be Near Me' come from a genuine place, a Britain that is more than one country and more than one ideal.

I hope one day when I say I'm from Estonia, people don't say: 'What? Where's that?'

If you're part of the Network Generation, you don't have to belong just to one nation. Dual identities come easily to these dual screeners. They fear a separate Scotland would be a narrowing, not a broadening, experience.

Every Englishman is convinced of one thing, viz.: That to be an Englishman is to belong to the most exclusive club there is.

People are always asking me where I come from, and they're expecting me to say India, and they're absolutely right insofar as 100 percent of my blood and ancestry does come from India. Except, I've never lived one day of my life there. I can't speak even one word of its more than 22,000 dialects.

In North America, what happens often is that they put race before nationhood. Everyone here is Hispanic-American, Chinese-American, African-American. But really, we're just North Americans of all these different descents. The only time I notice North Americans becoming national is when a war happens or a crisis happens.

The Democratic Party is the party that opened its arms. We opened them to every nationality, every creed. We opened them to the immigrants. The Democratic Party is the party of the people.

I just love playing for England, whether it's opening or middle order.

Los ingleses tienen 3 cosas de las que mostrarse orgullosos: El té, el whisky y un escritor como yo. Pero resulta que el té es chino; el whisky, escocés; y yo soy irlandés.

Of all people in the world the English have the least sense of the beauty of literature.

It was a poor thing she felt for anyone to be born a foreigner.

Foreigners, here it is, this is my homeland, here I was born and here live my dreams.

A True Born Englishman's a contradiction! In speech and irony, in fact a fiction

Apparently, one in five people in the world are Chinese. And there are five people in my family, so it must be one of them. It's either my mum or my dad. Or my older brother, Colin. Or my younger brother, Ho-Chan-Chu. But I think it's Colin.

Over the summer I thought that I would seek out non-Americans as friends, just for diversity's sake. Now I find that I want to be around Americans – people who I know are thinking about our country as much as I am.

The ruling idea of his life appeared to be, that he was bound to show his gratitude to the country which had afforded him an asylum and a means of subsistence by doing his utmost to turn himself into an Englishman.

We're not savages. We're English.

Death, finally, was British; life chaotic and foreign. The

All German women are beautiful.

It is the flag just as much of the man who was naturalized yesterday as of the men whose people have been here many generations.