Franz Grillparzer Quotes

I was born in the U.S. This is my country.

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

I am just grateful I have a British passport and a country here.

I was fortunate enough to be an American citizen by birth and I have the birth certificate to prove it.

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

When Bangladesh refused to renew my passport, I used U.N. travel documents. You can't disown your country.

We inhabit a language rather than a country.

My roots are still in Britain, that's where I live, that's the place where I come from.

I was born in the USA, which many people still find hard to believe.

I am still an Indonesian citizen.

I am a man by nature and a Frenchman only by accident.

One of these days every person in Canada will be a Canadian.

We [native-born] could not choose, but they [immigrants] could and did choose to be Americans.

In global terms, to be born British remains a remarkable stroke of luck.

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.

French citizenship should be either inherited or merited.

Everyone in America thinks I'm American - and everyone in England seems to think I'm American.

I'm Scottish and I was born there and but in my heart I'm a Londoner.

Who does get to claim Americanness? You know, my brother was born in this country. And is he seen as American? So, I mean, it brings up a lot of interesting questions.

I could have had Spanish nationality, and I didn't take it.

I'm not American.

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.

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

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

All you crazy white people "I'm American!", all you did was come out of your mother's pussy on American soil. That's it. That's it! What, you think you're better than somebody from France 'cause you came out of a pussy in Detroit?