Quotes About Nationality

When you move a border, suddenly life changes violently. I write about nationality.

I am British. I love Britain for all its faults and all its virtues. My husband is American and I am largely based in Los Angeles, but whenever someone asks me where home is, I automatically say 'London.'

Mexico is so close to us. No matter how long we stay here, we identify as Americans first, but we also have a place for our mother country. That is very visible in San Antonio.

I know you have not thought about it. Italians always act without thinking, it's the glory and the downfall of your civilisation. A German plans a month in advance what his bowel movements will be at Easter, and the British plan everything in retrospect, so it always looks as though everything occurred as they intended. The French plan everything whilst appearing to be having a party, and the Spanish...well, God knows. Anyway, Pelagia is Greek, that's my point.

Nationality, then, is only a less narrow form of provincialism, a sublimer sort of clownishness and ill-manners.

Only Americans smile all the time.

they couldn't abide the fact that the country was almost certainly founded by the Celts, who were just a little bit too close to the Irish for comfort.

What's wrong with you people? he asked, looking at me as if I was clinically insane. What's wrong with Ireland? Are you all just fucking nuts over there, is that it? Don't you want each other to be happy? No, I said, finding my country a difficult one to explain. No, I don't think we do.

There is a certain dignity to being French.

To be an American is of itself almost a moral condition, an education, and a career.

You never find an Englishman among the under-dogs except in England, of course.

I do not feel an exile from America in any sense.

I think I'm an American writer writing about Latin America, and I'm a Latin American writer who happens to write in English.

If you want to be part of the American country, then do it legally.

We can list a bunch of actors who have embodied characters that aren't their nationalities, and I think that's the beauty of acting.

My first son was born in Los Angeles; he's a Mexican-American.

The main thing my bookcase says about me is that I'm not French.

Since 'Y Tu Mama Tambien,' I started to spend a lot of time in the United States, and my son was born there.

It's good to be around an English manager.

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.

Americans do seem to say things which make the English notice England.

Don't you have any desire for vengeance? he asked before he remembered that she wasn't Italian.

Ja seda tahan ma teile ütelda: meid, eestlasi, on niivõrd vähe, et iga eestlase siht - või vähemalt iga Wikmani poisi siht peab olema surematus!

Jesus throws down the dividing prejudices of nationality and teaches universal love, without distinction of race, merit or rank. A man's neighbor is everyone who needs help. ~J.C. Geikie