Quotes About Nationality

now, in his country, and in her mind, those stars belonged to

All Scots are engineers, and all engineers are Scots.

wondered why the presence of Americans could always make him feel vaguely ashamed after saying things he believed.

Un chiste común dice que en Colombia los ricos quieren ser ingleses, los intelectuales quieren ser franceses, la clase media quiere ser norteamericana y los pobres quieren ser mexicanos.

I'm no Armenian. I'm an American. Well, the truth is I am both and neither. I love Armenia and I love America and I belong to both, but I am only this: an inhabitant of the earth, and so are you, whoever you are. I tried to forget Armenia but I couldn't do it.

Although I write in English, and despite the fact that I'm from America, I consider myself an Armenian writer. The words I use are in English, the surroundings I write about are American, but the soul, which makes me write, is Armenian. This means I am an Armenian writer and deeply love the honor of being a part of the family of Armenian wrtiters.

There is a small area of land in Asia Minor that is called Armenia, but it is not so. It is not Armenia. It is a place. There are only Armenians, and they inhabit the earth, not Armenia, since there is no Armenia. There is no America and there is no England, and no France, and no Italy. There is only the earth.

Tedn't fair. Tedn't just. Tedn't British.

We have always found the Irish a bit odd. They refuse to be English.

Nie ufa?em wiarom, doktrynom, ideologiom, instytucjom. Mog?em wi?c oprze? si? tylko na sobie. Ale przecie? by?em Polakiem, urobionym przez polsko??, ?yj?cym w Polsce. No wi?c trzeba mi by?o poszuka? mojego ja g??biej, tam gdzie ono ju? nie by?o polskie, a po prostu cz?owiecze.

he must have thought: this is a young fellow and a stupid German besides - that's just how all French speak of the Germans - he will be quite content with this - but the stupid German was not content - and didn't accept the money either (...).

Whenever I travel anywhere, I'm constantly asked if I'm Swedish. It's the burden of most Norwegians. The Swedes have just got a better publicity agent, I think.

History shows that it is not only senseless and cruel, but also difficult to state who is a foreigner.

Our country was thereby saved from the consequences of its distracting individualistic conception of democracy, and its merely legal conception of nationality. It was because the followers of Jackson and Douglas did fight for it, that the Union was preserved.

Thomas thinks, he was being unnecessarily Welsh.

Si les Français ont autant de répugnance que les Anglais ont de propension pour les voyages, peut-être les Français et les Anglais ont-ils raison de part et d'autre. On trouve partout quelque chose de meilleur que l'Angleterre, tandis qu'il est excessivement difficile de retrouver loin de la France les charmes de la France.

and Germans are obsessed with shit.

I was so proud to have the chance to be able to represent Canada at the Olympics in Vancouver.

You're not just playing for one city in Toronto, you're playing for Vancouver, Montreal, Edmonton.

On the other hand, the vast majority of all westernized countries, including every single European country along with Israel and Japan, do not offer birthright citizenship.

I don't consider myself a subject, I think I'm a citizen of this country and I think the vast majority of people consider themselves citizens.

I have English blood running through my veins!

If America is an idea, which it is - we're not a nation of ethnic groups that say we're Americans because we have American blood; we have the blood of every nation in our veins - and there's something really beautiful about that, but it means that we are an idea and that we all have to buy into this idea.

It's stupid, just because I was born with a French passport, I have the right to travel all around the world, but if I was born in Mali, or Venezuela or Bolivia I couldn't.