I Am Me Country Quotes

• Valentin Chmerkovskiy

I've never felt like this country owed me anything. If anything, I am forever in debt to this country.

• Kristin Chenoweth / Singer

Well, you know, people don't know me as a country artist and I am new to the genre. But that's how I grew up singing.

• Marina Abramovic / Artist

When people ask me where I am from I never say, 'Serbia.' I always say, 'I come from a country that no longer exists.'

• Ferdinand Marcos / Former President Of The Philippines

I have Chinese blood in me... I am not ashamed to admit that perhaps the great leaders of our country all have Chinese blood.

• Julie Andrews / Film Actress

I am very proud to be British. I'm very conscious of carrying my country with me wherever I go. I feel I need to represent it well.

• Ulysses S. Grant / 18th U.S. President

I appreciate the fact, and am proud of it, that the attentions I am receiving are intended more for our country than for me personally.

• Gareth Thomas

I like to think I'm a bit of a son of the country, I've played for the country so many times I feel proud to be Welsh. It's accepted me for what I am and what I do.

• Herman Cain / Author

My message of common-sense solutions is resonating with people. People around the country are starting to know who I am and starting to identify me with solutions, not rhetoric.

• Jimmy Smits / Actor

I am very Latino in everything I am and I do, but there's a part of me that's also something else. I'm reflective of the way this country's gonna be in the next 40 years. More multicultural is what we'll see.

• Tom Heinsohn / Basketball Player

I don't know what it is about me: I am no Rock Hudson, but I absolutely wow all the little old white-haired ladies. They stop me and talk to me all over the country, on the street, in restaurants, in elevators.

• Leila Slimani

I am not patriotic or nationalistic, but the French language is like a country where I take refuge when I have nowhere else to go. It consoles me for everything. For me, the language no longer belongs to the colonialists.

• Wilfrid Laurier / Former Prime Minister Of Canada

I am a subject of the British Crown, but whenever I have to choose between the interests of England and Canada it is manifest to me that the interests of my country are identical with those of the United States of America.

• Andrew Flintoff / Cricketer

It annoys me when I phone a hotel receptionist in my own country, and they don't understand what I am saying because they don't speak English. I think that's wrong. It's nothing to do with being politically correct or incorrect; it's just not right.