Bill Bryson Quotes

I'm an American citizen now, but I will always have Canadian pride.

I don't necessarily feel like I'm American. I wouldn't know what that feels like.

I am a proud, British-born Muslim, and I love my country more than any other place on earth.

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

When I go to Brazil, I feel like an American, and in the U.S., I always notice the traits that make me Brazilian.

I'm three-quarters Russian, so I've always felt an outsider. But I don't think you can be in a play with John Of Gaunt's 'This sceptred isle' speech and not feel proud to be British.

It's my country but I don't want to know about France - I was born there but I feel English.

I've never felt British. I'm just not interested in national identity. I don't know why.

I've never stopped being Argentine, and I've never wanted to. I feel very proud of being Argentine, even though I left there. I've been clear about this since I was very young, and I never wanted to change.

I definitely feel Russian inside, even when I'm in America I feel Russian.

I'm Jamaican, man. I'm Jamaican first. You gotta understand that's where I'm from. That's home. That you can never take away from me. I'm a Jamaican-born Canadian sprinter.

Everyone, no doubt, remains first and foremost a man of his own country and continues to draw from it his motive force.

I'm happy being Canadian and I'm proud of where I come from. So I'll keep my passport.

The longer I lived overseas, the more I appreciated being from South Africa.

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

I came to Canada at a young age and I've been here for most of my life, so being able to play for this country is a really great experience and joy.

I'm proud to be Canadian. But I identify as being a British mum.

Perhaps because I never left England and went to America - I think the public sort of appreciated that. I visited and I did some shows over there, but I never had any ambitions to settle over there. I could never have left England.

Diversity means, when the left teaches it, the people responsible for building America and maintaining it get the short end of the stick from now on. With this singular American culture that people came and wanted to be part of, they were proud, couldn't wait to become Americans, tears in their eyes when it happened. It was a special place. Defending it now, defending that America, defending our cultural, defending our founding, defending all of the things that made this country great is now called racism or xenophobia or hate.

I'm still a proud Irishman, of course, but I've become an American citizen. I'm very, very proud of that.

I was born abroad, but my parents were both English. Still, those few years of separation, and then coming back to England as an outsider, did give me an ability to see the country in a slightly detached way. I suppose I was made aware of what Englishness actually is because I only became immersed in it later in life.

I love New York, and I love being here, but I think I'll always be Australian at heart.

I've got nothing against America, but I went over there a couple of times and didn't really like it. I mean, not that I like England that much, but it's somewhere to live.

Only when I came to America did I think of myself as British.

The homeland affects you directly: it affects your body; it affects the collective mind and the collective heart and the collective spirit.