Quotes About Nationality

imperial Russia. He was a member of the Black Hundreds, an ultranationalist society that espoused a motto of "Orthodoxy, Autocracy, and Nationality." The Black Hundreds despised anything and anyone who would challenge the House of Romanov: communists, Jews, and Ukrainian nationalists.

Josy Barthel came first in the 1500m at the 1952 Olympic Games. This was a real triumph, as being from the tiny country of Luxembourg, no-one had expected him to have a chance - especially the band, who hadn't brought the music for Luxembourg's national anthem with them. They were forced to improvise, causing Barthel to put his head in his hands and weep.

You Russians like to think you're poets but perhaps you're just touchy.

I was born an American, I live like an American, I will die an American.

8. You hate the political buisness of nationality. You hate everything, in politics and art and everything else, that is not genuine and deep and necessary. You don't have time for silly trivial things. You live seriously. You don't go to silly films, even if you want to; you don't read cheap newspapers; you don't listen to trash on the wireless and the telly; you don't waste time talking about nothing. You use your life.

He said it as if 'very rich' was a nationality; as perhaps it is.

You accept that you are English. You don't pretend that you'd rather be French or Italian or something else.

Ayn? dile, ayn? geçmiÅŸe ve daha pek çok ayn? ÅŸeye sahip olup da, onlara, Ä°ngilizlere ait olmamaktan kaynaklanan bir öfke ve ÅŸaÅŸk?nl?k kar???m? his. Kökleri olmamaktan beter bir durumdu bu... bir türe ait olamamak.

Mary was not even English, so how could she be accountable to the queen of England or to English judges?

But don't you see how your … opinions can be disturbing? It's very American—to have opinions as … strong as your opinions. It's very Canadian to distrust strong opinions." "I'm a Canadian," I said. "I've

Canon Campbell told me that most smart-ass Canadians tend to move to the United States. I

My becoming a Canadian citizen was part of the plot.

I never felt Irish. I always felt, 'I'm English, this is where I come from, and that's that.' Because you'd be reminded of that when you went to Ireland: 'Ye're not Oirish!' the locals would say. So it was like, 'Bloody hell, shot by both sides here.' I still love that Magazine song – so relevant to me, those lyrics.

To sell war bonds, they had already organized nearly the entire city, all the way down to the level of each block, making each residential block the responsibility of "a logical leader no matter what her nationality"—i.e., an Irishwoman in an Irish neighborhood, an African American woman in an African American neighborhood, and so on. They intended to use that same organization now to distribute everything from medical care to food.

I am Welsh by birth, English by education, and European by nature.

Oh, I'm not English, I cannot talk on behalf of an English person. I'm French. I can say about French. They are quite emotional, though, and they talk about their emotions

I don't like China. Even today, I still feel I have no emotional relations with this place.

My mum is Croatian, and obviously she's female and she's very emotional, very hot-blooded, very touchy-feely, whereas I think my dad's quite British.

You can take the boy out of England, but you can't take England out of the boy. And ummm, yes, I feel a huge emotional attachment to England.

I think that whatever nationality you are, you should be treated equally, otherwise you don't have equality.

I'm proud to be an American, I'll tell you. What a program and what a place and what an experience.

I can't say I'm thankful about being German because I sometimes experience it as a huge burden. But it is an integral part of me and I wouldn't want to escape it. I have accepted it.

For me, even just being English was a whole sort of experience in as much as I'm Australian.

A me piacciono solo due tipi di uomini: gli stranieri e quelli del mio Paese.