Elie Wiesel Quotes

You carry your country with you, it's part of your baggage.

I'll be a Quebecker-Canadian. I'm from Quebec, and every time I go to a country, I say that. It's my roots, my origins, and it's the most important thing to me.

I never wanted to change countries; it's something that is part of me.

My whole identity comes from Pakistan.

I've lived all my life in the U.S., but to be brutally honest, I don't really have any ties to the country apart from my mum and dad. Most of the rest of my family live in the Stockport area, and I've always related more to that side of my background.

Nobody can send me to Pakistan. India is my country, and I love my country. Five generations of my family have lived and died on this land, and even my children will live in this country because this is my homeland.

I have always thought of myself as being Northern Irish because that's what I am.

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

I'm Colombian and nothing will change that.

I know I'm British. I haven't spent much time in the U.K., but my parents are British, my family heritage is British, so if I wasn't British, what would I be? I am British.

My heritage is English, so I'm proud to be back here.

I've never stopped being Argentine, and I've never wanted to. I feel very proud of being Argentine, even though I left there. I've been clear about this since I was very young, and I never wanted to change.

I am very proud of my Australian roots.

In America, we all come from somewhere else, and we carry along some dream myth of home: a notion that something - our point of origin, our roots, the home country - is out there.

My country is India but my motherland remains Pakistan.

I'm very attached to my roots, but I feel Italian more than anything else.

My mother was from West Bromwich; my grandfather was Pakistani. I had an aunt who started trying to trace the family tree and stopped when she saw what turned up.

It is important for all of us to appreciate where we come from and how that history has really shaped us in ways that we might not understand.

I have always thought of myself as a Czechoslovak Catholic.

I'm certainly proud to be Cuban American, and it's a fantastic opportunity for anybody - regardless of their ethnicity or nationality. It does carry a measure or pride to know where you're from and to know what your roots are.

Well, I'm Czech, but Polish, Czech, no matter, it's my name.

I think of myself as being Jewish and Irish, despite the fact that I'm English.

I was born in America, but I consider myself a Filipino.

I am an American. I adore Britain and have a strong English half, but my roots are here in the U.S. - it is not a matter of choice; it is simply fact.

My ancestors come from a part of southern China where most villages can trace their roots back at least a thousand years or even more. However, as a typical American, I have lived in four cities and moved at least seven times.