Quotes About Nationality

If aw his hums and haws were hams and haggises, the country wad be weel fed!

The US isn't speeding up the immigration process in spite of what's happening to Jews in Germany, which makes me ashamed to carry an American passport.

You may be a foreigner, but you have the heart of a Frenchman.

For a man who in his friendships and acquaintance looked upon religion and nationality as both significant and irrelevant, the changing composition of the High Court was a cause for sadness.

As a woman I have no country. As a woman I want no country. As a woman, my country is the whole world.

My parents were French and Irish and our family even has Spanish blood-and I do so love the United States and consider myself part American.

Je le dis ouvertement : je suis "moyennement démocrate'' et je veux bien effeuiller la marguerite démocratique. En Suisse, j'aurais pu l'être passionnément ; aux États-Unis, un peu; en France, pas du tout.

I do feel very American. I think it's something I'm proud of and proud to be by chance born here. Honestly, that's something I think about.

My dad's Russian. My mother's English. I would say my bottom half is Russian.

I shall be dark and French and fashionable and difficult and you shall be sweet and open and English and fair. What a pair we shall be.

I'm an American, our names don't mean shit.

I'm a tea-swilling limey, too.

My father always said that was the difference between an American and an Englishman. An Englishman thinks a hundred miles is a long way; an American thinks a hundred years is a long time.

difference between an American and an Englishman. An Englishman thinks a hundred miles is a long way; an American thinks a hundred years is a long time.

I thought I had not been out for long; I showed no symptoms of concussion or other ill effects from the blow, save a sore patch on the base of my skull. My captor, a man of few words, had responded to my questions, demands and acerbic remarks alike with the all-purpose Scottish noise which can best be rendered phonetically as Mmmmphm. Had I been in any doubt as to him nationality, that sound alone would have been sufficient to remove it.

Sassenach I might be to him, but not English.

I would ask the one thing of ye, lad—let it be the English. Not your ain folk.

I feel so much more connected with my Asian side than I do with my British side - of course, I'm proud of my British side.

I didn't see myself in Jia Jhangke or Wong Kar-Wai films. Those are Asian filmmakers, and I very much am an American filmmaker.

I don't have a place anywhere but Australia; I just don't spend much time there.

Mmm, well that whole thing about having to look tough has never left Australia.

I'm a proud Australian, a very, very proud Australian.

I think mine's such a mish-mash now: I get criticised for sounding like a Yank when I come home, and everybody thinks I'm Australian when I'm in America.

I no longer knew what it was like to feel Australian.