Quotes about Nationality
What are you called? Georgette. How are you called? Jacob. That's a Flemish name. American too. You're not Flamand? No, American. Good, I detest Flamands.
— Ernest Hemingway
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.
— Eric Metaxas
Religion is no test of nationality, but a personal matter between man and his God.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Christ tears away the wall of partition, the self-love, the dividing prejudice of nationality, and teaches a love for all the human family.
— Ellen White
As a woman I have no country. As a woman I want no country. As a woman, my country is the whole world.
— Virginia Woolf
I am willing to love all mankind, except an American.
— Samuel Johnson
The noblest prospect which a Scotchman ever sees, is the high road that leads him to England!
— Samuel Johnson
I'm half-Irish, half-Dutch, and I was born in Belgium. If I was a dog, I'd be in a hell of a mess!
— Audrey Hepburn
The 100% American is 99% an idiot.
— George Bernard Shaw
The important thing is neither your nationality nor the religion you professed, but how your faith translated itself in your life.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
I am very proud to be British. I'm very conscious of carrying my country with me wherever I go. I feel I need to represent it well.
— Julie Andrews
one's nationality should come to have a meaning in the light of eternity.
— Thomas Merton