Morley Safer Quotes

I come from no country, from no city, no tribe. I am the son of the road... all tongues and all prayers belong to me. But I belong to none of them.

I'm a Canadian citizen. But I always want to feel at home in Sri Lanka. I'm a member of both countries.

I used to feel I was more French than anything, but I don't feel that way anymore. I really don't feel like I belong to a specific country, and it is so difficult for people to understand that.

When I speak about 'we,' it gets very complex very quickly. Having grown up in the United States, but also being very much a member of Nigerian societies and also different parts of Nigerian societies, I understand that we construct particular 'we's.'

I don't really feel an allegiance to any of the countries I have lived in, even though I feel like part of them, and part of them is in me.

I'm American by birth, but I consider myself Canadian.

But I don't think of myself as a foreigner or a Frenchman! I just think of myself as a director. Whether I'm French or Australian or whatever, it's really not important.

I never expected to run into a room and suddenly I belonged. I figured people who live on the fringes of society, they're more free. They can choose to visit anywhere; they don't belong to anywhere. It's like being without a nation, in a way.

I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world.

For Americans I'll always be Israeli, and for Israelis I'll always be American. But I really have no need for definitions.

In England I am not English, in India I am not Indian. I am chained to the 1,000 square miles that is Trinidad; but I will evade that fate yet.

I am a citizen of the world: I serve neither the emperor nor the king of France; I am at the service of Truth; she is my only Queen.

The more I am French, the more I feel a part of humanity.

Nations have lost their old omnipotence; the patriotic tie does not hold. Nations are getting obsolete, we go and live where we will.

Independence is my happiness, and I view things as they are, without regard to place or person; my country is the world, and my religion is to do good.

I consider myself a Londoner first, and then I consider myself Brazilian before I consider myself English.

It was very hard for me, for most of my life, to feel American, or call myself American, and that is a very complicated topic that would require a very long conversation.

I have two passports because I have to have at least one, and I really don't know how I define myself. And I feel that as I get older, I feel very fortunate to have, on paper, a dual nationality.

There's so much negativity over this issue of dual nationality - nearly always from people who don't have mixed family backgrounds and don't understand that it's perfectly natural for those of us who do, to feel loyalty to more than one country.

I am so proud to be Ukrainian, and I'm also so proud to be an American.

I'm sort of half-Chilean at this point anyway, half-Argentine. This is where I have been living and working for a long time now.

I'm no Armenian. I'm an American. Well, the truth is I am both and neither. I love Armenia and I love America and I belong to both, but I am only this: an inhabitant of the earth, and so are you, whoever you are. I tried to forget Armenia but I couldn't do it.

I consider myself a free man and a citizen of the world.

If pressed, I would say I feel British. It's where I grew up and where I choose to live, the culture that I love, but I feel perfectly at home in America, I don't feel like a tourist or anything.

I am proud to be an American Citizen.