Winston Churchill Quotes

My children are English, and both of their mothers were English.

I do not deny my German identity. But I also feel Swiss. Of my eight great-grandparents, seven were born Swiss. I have been living in Switzerland for more than 50 years.

I'm Canadian! My father's Canadian.

Actually, the reason I look like this is because my father was from Sweden and my mother was Elton John.

No, my family is Russian, Georgian, via Ellis Island.

I was born in New York City in 1926, four years after my parents and my brother migrated to the United States from the city of Odessa in Russia.

I'm certainly proud to be Cuban American, and it's a fantastic opportunity for anybody - regardless of their ethnicity or nationality. It does carry a measure or pride to know where you're from and to know what your roots are.

Irish Americans are no more Irish than Black Americans are Africans.

I have two Filipino nannies who have British passport and not me. I don't need British passport. When you were running around in an animal skin, my ancestors were building the pyramids.

I'm of Arab background.

I think of myself as being Jewish and Irish, despite the fact that I'm English.

I've always known that my father's father and grandfather and grandmother were from Mexico. I've never denied it. I've always said it.

You want a lesson? I'll give you a lesson. How about a geography lesson? My father's from Puerto Rico. My mother's from El Salvador. And neither one of those is Mexico.

My parents are British but they emigrated to America, where I was born.

My mother is French, my father is Texan.

I'll be a Quebecker-Canadian. I'm from Quebec, and every time I go to a country, I say that. It's my roots, my origins, and it's the most important thing to me.

I am Taiwanese as well as Chinese.

I'm not American. I still have my Japanese citizenship.

My parents are Polish. I don't know anything about Italian-ness.

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

I was born in the U.S., my wife was born in Mexico and emigrated here when she was in college, and my daughters were born in New York City. That makes them passport-carrying, natural-born, eligible-to-run-for-president Americans. But they're also Mexicans and they like that just fine.

I was advised by an American agent when I was about 19 to change my surname.

What about a white South African who comes here from Africa. Is he an African American?

My mother is an American.

My father came here from Mexico.