Graeme Murphy Quotes

The Australian cast of mind is not something I would want to be without - and I couldn't be without. It's not a choice.

Let us not suffer from a national amnesia that causes us to forget who and what we are.

No nation is formed within a night, one generation's era of even two. A nation can be described as the continuous string of many generations that time, this pitiless, thoughtless sword of nature, separates their physical connections along the course of their history.

A national festival is an occasion to refine and rebuild the national character.

A country cannot develop without a strong identity.

Tell me how much a nation knows about its own language, and I will tell you how much that nation knows about its own identity.

The Philippines, it might be said, is a country in search of an identity.

I talk about being Australian a lot.

Canada is the only country in the world that knows how to live without an identity.

My commitment to the Republican movement was pure and simply patriotism, a love of Australia... a desire or passion that all of our national symbols should be unequivocally and unambiguously Australian.

We must teach our people the greatness of China's historical culture. In our educational program we must stress Chinese history and geography so that all may know and appreciate China's civilization of five thousand years and the far-flung boundaries of our ancient race. This will engender a greater faith in our own future.

For a country is not merely a piece of earth; it is, above all, a compendium of social, cultural, and historical factors which begin to acquire sense and order through the process of writing.

We are not America. We are Afghanistan.

I am a New Zealander, but I don't want to swallow New Zealand identity in one gulp.

The American landscape has no foreground and the American mind no background.

I'm Australian! How much more alpha can you get?

A nation is a work of art and a work of time.

A great silence has fallen upon the real soul of this nation.

A nation is the totality of people who speak the same language.

A nation is a historical group of men of recognizable cohesion, held together by a common enemy.

Nationality is belief in a common origin and end.

A great aggregation of men, sane of mind and warm of heart, creates a moral consciousness which is called a nation

A nation is a body of people united by a corporate sentiment of peculiar intensity, intimacy and dignity, related to a definite home-country.

National identity does not figure in the Tamil way of thinking.

A healthy nation is as unconscious of its nationality as a healthy man of his bones. But if you break a person's nationality it will think of nothing else but getting it set again.