Dual Citizenship Quotes

I don't think of myself as either American or Australian really, I'm a true hybrid. It's a good thing for me because both of them are really good countries.

We can have no '50-50' allegiance in this country. Either a man is an American and nothing else, or he is not an American at all.

My family is from Morocco, and I was born and raised in Canada, but I'm an Indian at heart, for sure.

I live in the U.S., but I'm from Brazil.

I'm definitely an American, because I grew up here. But I've lived very happily in Britain.

I am an American, but a sense of otherness was part of my growing up. I spoke Norwegian before I spoke English. My mother is Norwegian.

After all everybody, that is, everybody who writes is interested in living inside themselves in order to tell what is inside themselves. That is why writers have to have two countries, the one where they belong and the one in which they live really. The second one is romantic, is is separate from themselves, it is not real but it is really there.

My father was a headmaster in England and then the dean of a college in Australia. We moved there when I was about five, so my education was in Australia, and I always felt I was Australian even though my passport was British.

I spend a lot of time in London and I miss California. Of course, when I'm in California I miss London.

I now have Croatian citizenship, but I only accepted it because Croatia allowed me to keep my Russian passport.

I just like to have one foot in Montana and one foot out.

I'm very much half-American - my mom is American. I grew up in Australia until I was 16, then I finished high school over here because I got into this performing arts high school.

When people ask me where I'm from, I say I'm from the Sudan. But when they ask what my hometown is, I say London. It's where I lived, and it's where my whole family lived.

I have a very powerful sense of place, but I have a very powerful sense of being a migrant, so it's both. It seems like I'm always leaving my home. That's part of the formula. I love the Dominican Republic. I go back all the time. I love New Jersey. Go back all the time.

I'm Colombian-American. My father wanted me to have American citizenship, but he wanted to raise me in Colombia.

I love my heritage. I'm very proud of being Cuban. But I clearly understand that I am an American first.

As a legal matter, my mother is an American citizen by birth.

I think being bi-continental is something I want to continue. Kuala Lumpur is my home, but L.A. is where I've been able to make the music that I want.

I have dual citizenship; I would be happy to go to England. I would be very happy to go to America.

You would have a huge statelessness problem if you don't consider a child born abroad a U.S. citizen.

I am Chinese, but I am thoroughly American.

Six years after al-Awlaki was born, his family moved back to Yemen, but he returned to the States for college and remained there for much of his adult life.

The world's moving; people move around the world. A lot of people coming to this country have terrific talent to bring to the country - not just in business and in the professions but in Parliament as well. And we need some failsafe system so that, right at the outset, they are aware that they have to drop any other citizenship.

I know lots of people who work in the U.S. but don't live there.

I feel as much British as I do American. There's not much difference between our countries.