Quotes About Nationality

Fereasc? Dumnezeu s? te întâlne?ti cu ru?i în str?in?tate, e o ru?ine!

An Austrian punctuality combined with Russian bravery

It is not we Greeks alone who are the inheritors of Greek civilisation... all, of whatever nationality, who share the ancient Greek attitude to life, are Greeks.

I accept now with equanimity the question so constantly addressed to me, 'Are you an American' and merely return the accurate answer, 'Yes, I am a Canadian.'

Like a lot of expatriate Scots, when you want to be called Scottish, it's useful. I see myself as being without nationality, as a European: my region is Scotland; my nationality is European - isn't that a very Alex Salmond thing to say?

It's incredibly disturbing when a country, particularly your own country, uses discrimination as a basis for an investigation.

This thing called nationalism is a treasure that a country uses to try to develop and a nationality uses to try to survive. China has lost this treasure.

Steve Morse is a very good guitar player, but he's American, and he's using humbucker pickups. If you ask me, those two are not good.

Stuart Hall was an utterly unique figure. Although he arrived at the age of 19 from Jamaica and spent the rest of his life here, he never felt at home in Britain. This juxtaposition was a crucial source of his strength and originality. Because of his colour and origin, he saw the country differently - not as a native, but as an outsider.

Kunta Kinte is NOT an American, and he utterly rejects that idea at every turn.

The question of the value of nationality in art is perhaps unsolvable.

Les français sont des italiens sont des français de mauvaise humeur.

I francesi sono degli italiani di cattivo umore.

The Italians are said to be noisy and to gesticulate, but that is a libel dreamed up by the English.

she was Italian, that is to say sensitive and vindictive...

He had become a man without a country. The land of his birth was at war with America; yet after thirty-five years here he was still prevented by law from becoming an American citizen. He was suddenly a man with no rights who looked exactly like the enemy.

I find being Irish quite a wearing thing. It takes so much work because it is a social construction. People think you are going to be this, this, and this.

I think my work is very American because I'm American. But I found that Europeans like uncertainty and doubt.

I definitely want to keep working in Ireland, and without being too worthy about it, if it's possible to bring work into the country, that's no harm.

If, as is certainly the case, capitalism cannot do without nationality, that is precisely why accelerating and intensifying the deterritorializing, de-ethnicizing and anti-national impulses within (but inhibited by) capitalism constitutes an anti-capitalist strategy.

If I go anywhere where there are people who vaguely look like me, there is always that feeling of, 'Actually I do look quite similar to everyone else.' At moments like that, I become very, very British. My accent gets more clipped, and I stride around as if I've got an empire.

In Scotland, I'm just like a lot of other guys, but in America, I'm seen as a very strong, masculine guy.

I do think of myself very strongly as a New Zealander, but when I moved out to the States, I was aware that I didn't want to just live in a satellite community of only other New Zealanders.

I hold both of them with equal amounts of pride. I feel just as strongly and equally Mexican as I do American.