Adnan Sami Quotes

We used to have a view that to really be a good Australian, to love Australia, you almost had to cut your links with the country of origin. But I don’t think that was right and it never was right.

I did have a chance to box for Pakistan, but I've lived here all my life, gone to school; all my coaches and everyone's here, and I feel English.

It's a complicated issue, but I define myself as an American, primarily.

I can't live for more than four years outside of Canada. I'm Canadian, so ultimately that is my reference point.

In spite of all temptations of belonging to many nations, I've remained an Indian.

My son will be an American, but I remain French.

Although I am losing my Soviet citizenship, I do not cease to be a Russian poet.

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.

It would be absurd to say I'm not British - you can hear it when I speak.

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

In order for a man to really understand himself he must be part of a nation; he must have some land of his own, a God of his own, a language of his own. Most of all he must have love and devotion for his own kind.

You can call me whatever you want to call me, but I am an American. No one can take that away from me. No, no one can.

It took me many years to understand that my identity is more Israeli than Jewish.

I thought for a long time about leaving Albania, but at the same time to play a role in its life.

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

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

I have no sentiments for nationality or for soil. But I grew up in Israel, so those things are in my blood, and I want to be part of Israeli culture.

I cannot live anywhere else except India.

It's very important to me that people see I am an American and I was born in the States.

Although I was always very happy in Britain, I never stopped thinking of America as home, in the fundamental sense of the term. It was where I came from, what I really understood, the base against which all else was measured.

In a funny way, nothing makes you feel more like a native of your own country than to live where nearly everyone is not.

I do not feel an exile from America in any sense.

Some fatherlands are difficult. Germany is one of them. But it is our fatherland. Here is where we live and work.

We are Americans when we go to war, and when we return, we are Mexicans.

Trust me: I don't wish I was a New Zealander.