Douglas Hyde Quotes

I love the fact that we, as black people, carry our faith with us. We share it and embrace it and love it and talk about it because we talk about everything else and why not that and that was the first impression that I had that really touched me.

I'm Irish, yeah, but I don't need to get up on a soapbox about it.

My soul is still Irish.

It is a most disgraceful shame the way in which Irishmen are brought up. They are ashamed of their language, institutions, and of everything Irish.

I have never denied my background or my culture. I have taught my child to embrace her Mexican heritage, to love my first language, Spanish, to learn about Mexican history, music, folk art, food, and even the Mexican candy I grew up with.

Am I Latin? Am I American? What the hell am I? I love my culture and I'm very proud of my culture.

The Ireland I now inhabit is one that these Irish contemporaries have helped to imagine.

We, as Americans, at least - I mean, I love my country - but we're so self-righteous sometimes, in terms of, like, our nationality, our country. But we're people from somewhere else; the true 'Americans' are the original peoples. It's funny, but we're a very territorial species.

We of French origin have the sentiment of our own individuality. We want to hand down to our children the language we received from our forefathers.

All lands are beautiful in the eyes of their people.

The greatest guarantee for the preservation of a person’s identity is language and faith, and all Armenians must carry these two values.

The greatest guarantee for the preservation of a person’s identity is language and faith, and all Armenians must carry these two values.

We are all proud that through God's powerful aid, we have become once more true Germans

The nineteenth century, especially the second half of it, was a time of restatement in Ireland. After the famine, after the failed rebellions of the Forties and Sixties, the cultural and political desires for self-determination began to shape each other in a series of riffs on independence and identity.

My parents would dress us up in traditional Vietnamese clothing to go to school for heritage day. We have a Vietnamese nanny that my parents wanted us to have so we could stay in touch and know where we came from.

My Irish identity is important as it's a part of who I am.

I am extremely proud of my heritage, and I would never use being Dutch as an excuse but rather an explanation of our cultural differences.

I have the Mexican blood. I'm proud to be Mexican.

I think it's about the feeling more than a language. And I think that we and every culture in the world has to keep their own language just to bring something else, something different, and show a different vision of the world, actually. And that's why I'm trying to keep my language.

I feel totally French - I don't feel half-French because of my dual nationality. For me, dual nationality just means I don't deny my roots.

We used to speak Irish - Gaelic Irish - around the dinner table, but over the years, we lost that.

Language is so important to the Irish, almost regardless of education.

I was born into a Greek family, and it was instilled in me not only to be passionate about the culture but also to be freaky loyal.

I've always had a complex relationship towards my identity as an American.

I feel so much more connected with my Asian side than I do with my British side - of course, I'm proud of my British side.