Troy Deeney Quotes

I have two passports because I have to have at least one, and I really don't know how I define myself. And I feel that as I get older, I feel very fortunate to have, on paper, a dual nationality.

I was born in America and have lived a long time in England. I wish prosperity to both.

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

I was born in Brazil, I was an American citizen for about 10 years. I thought of myself as a global citizen.

I don't feel I have to defend myself for being English or for being Irish, because, in a way, I don't feel either. And, in another way, of course, I'm both.

I find no contradiction between being a Highlander, a Scot, a citizen of the U.K. and a citizen of the European Union at one and the same time.

I'm a Canadian citizen. But I always want to feel at home in Sri Lanka. I'm a member of both countries.

I am Dominican American. My father was born and raised in the U.S. and his heritage is German and Eastern European, and my mother hails from Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.

I am not an African. I am an American.

My heart is half Puerto Rican, half Canadian. That is how I feel.

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

I am an Israeli-born American citizen.

Madrid is what I call home, but also the States.

I'm as proud to be Chinese as I am American.

The question really isn't whether I'm American, Russian, Iranian, Azerbaijani, or anything else. I've been shaped by all these people and cultures and I feel quite comfortable among all of them

I do not deny my German identity. But I also feel Swiss. Of my eight great-grandparents, seven were born Swiss. I have been living in Switzerland for more than 50 years.

I really feel stateless, which is not bad, because I always felt a man without a country was not encumbered by narrow loyalties.

We can serve as bridges, we who identify as hyphenated Americans, because we are all global citizens, and that's why being cognizant of our histories is important.

When I became an American citizen, nothing's changed because I'm still Asian.

We have a lot of Brazilians in the United States. It doesn't mean we're traitors to our country.

It's possible that Israel will be my second home, but it won't be my only home.

When I speak about 'we,' it gets very complex very quickly. Having grown up in the United States, but also being very much a member of Nigerian societies and also different parts of Nigerian societies, I understand that we construct particular 'we's.'

I think everyone is kind of an immigrant somehow, and I wasn't raised in an American society at home. My household was a Jamaican household, so I got all my traditions, all my roots and culture intact, so I'm able to support both countries.

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

If you ask me where do I belong, it would be somewhere in the Irish Sea almost - born in Hong Kong, Chinese mother, Portuguese father from Macao, lived in Europe most of my life.