Quotes About Nationality

You are proving, aren't you,' said Philippa contemptuously, 'that to be base-born makes you a fourth-rate son of a fourth-rate little country?

Vi pripadate Ligi naroda? -Ja pripadam cijelom svijetu, madame, re?e Poirot dramati?no.

But you didn't like him?" "Shall we put it that I don't care very much for Americans, sir." "Have you ever been in America?" "No, sir.

Twenty five percent of Israeli citizens are not even Jewish. Anybody can become an Israeli citizen if you qualify. Religion is not a criterion for citizenship.

So, you're English?" Fritz asked. I bristled at the insult.

There was no letter in the Jewish stars though. No matter where we had come from, we had no country. We were only Jews.

Three months at Oxford persuaded me that it was not my home. I'm not English and I never will be. The life I have lived is one of partial displacement. I came to England as a means of escape, and it was a failure.

I was born in Peru, and we moved to Scotland when I was 15, but I've not lived here for a long time. But I would always say that I am Scottish, and Scotland is as close to a home as I have.

I'm British; pessimism is my wheelhouse.

And I think Americans are phenomenal people.

Philippines, what an amazing honor it has been to carry your name across my chest and to embody you in all aspects.

I'm fascinated by the Philippines because I'm from here. I was born here. I'm a Filipino.

It was a difficult decision picking Nigeria over England.

England is the pinnacle of any Englishman's career.

I wanna make my family proud, I wanna make Australia proud, all of that.

I never wanted to change countries; it's something that is part of me.

I made some flippant remark about not wanting my son to grow up with an American accent, and the next thing I knew, there were people in America suggesting I head back to Britain if I was unhappy at such a prospect.

We are Americans when we go to war, and when we return, we are Mexicans.

If the Jews had issues with the Polish people then why during the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, did the Jewish underground hang two flags from the bunker - the Polish flag and the flag of the Jewish people? Why? They did it because they felt part of Polish society and that is how we view them as well.

I am absolutely an Ulsterman and I am reminded of that everywhere I go. I can't shake that in Dublin and I can't shake that in London - they are wary of us in both capitals.

War is a farmer's son from Kansas trying to kill a factory worker's son from Berlin, with neither of them knowing why.

My full name is Ross Fleming Butler; it's very British-Irish.

Although I'm living in California, I'm very proud to be British.

I've always said that even before Cameroon, I belong to Africa.