Chris Kamara Quotes

Sting and I need to think what our relationship is to England in the long term.

On the same line of reasoning, if Australians were to be Australians, or rather if Australians were as separate from any other nation as Australia from any other land, there would be no jealousy between them on England's account.

Few Iranians these days go through the fiction of calling themselves 'Persian.' Calling yourself Persian is a way of distancing themselves from Iran.

It seems to me psychologically I'm a Canadian.

Nations need heroes, for heroes make the nation believe that the impossible is possible.

Nationhood is not founded on religion but blood ties, a common culture and homeland.

I suspect that the Brits believe in British exceptionalism and the Greeks believe in in Greek exceptionalism.

We like being English, but we're not that patriotic.

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

But since he stood for England And knew what England means, Unless you give him bacon You must not give him beans.

Freedom and diversity guard each other, and if a country could form the whole of one's character, Napoleon III and Victor Hugo would have been the same person... if national identity means anything, it means something that comes with you wherever you go, and stays with you no matter how long you stay away.

If I should die, think only this of me: that there's some corner of a foreign field that is for ever England.

If your name is getting too heavy, you should have Kvothe give you a new one.

Not until we dare to regard ourselves as a nation, not until we respect ourselves, can we gain the esteem of others, or rather only then will it come of its own accord

I am proud of Russia and I am sure that the vast majority of Russian citizens have great love and respect for their Motherland. We have much to be proud of: Russian culture and Russian history. We have every reason to believe in the future of our country. But we have no obsession that Russia must be a super power in the international arena. The only thing we do is protecting our vital interests.

We are not just any nation.

Breathes there the man with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land.

We are undermining a generation's happiness by depriving them of national identity, religious identity, and gender identity

For me there's nothing better than putting the white shirt on for England and playing for England. I'd get worried if it wasn't like that.

Whether splendidly isolated or dangerously isolated, I will not now debate; but for my part, I think splendidly isolated, because the isolation of England comes from her superiority.

All nationalisms are at heart deeply concerned with names: with the most immaterial and original human invention. Those who dismiss names as a detail have never been displaced; but the peoples on the peripheries are always being displaced. That is why they insist upon their continuity - their links with their dead and the unborn.

He was bare chested and in good trim. I said that just looking at him I knew there would always be an England

And if that child should ever get the chance to travel the world and someone should ask her where is she from, we believe that she should always be able to hold her head high with pride in her voice when she answers, "I am an American." That is the course we seek. That is the change we are calling for.

There is a forgotten, nay almost forbidden word, which means more to me than any other. That word is England.