Books Quote by Derek Walcott

“The concept of citizenship was still novel in 1812, with the vast majority of people who were living in North America and Europe placing…

— Troy Bickham

My father was a headmaster in England and then the dean of a college in Australia. We moved there when I was about five,…

— Olivia Newton-John

If we claim heritage in Bacon, Shakespeare and Milton, we also acknowledge that it was for liberties guaranteed Englishmen by sacred charters our fathers…

— Chauncey Depew

“Generally Americans held that citizenship was a choice and thus allowed naturalization, while Britain held that an individual’s subjection to the sovereign of the…

— Troy Bickham

“Of all the studies by which men acquire citizenship of the intellectual commonwealth, no single one is so indispensable as the study of the…

— Bertrand Russell

Citizenship to me is more than a piece of paper. Citizenship is also about character. I am an American. We're just waiting for our…

— Jose Antonio Vargas

England gave me a language and literature, the basis of what I am as a writer, but when I started writing more directly about…

— Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

“In his novels from beginning to end, Dickens is making the same point always: that to the English governing classes the people they govern…

— Edmund Wilson

Our citizenship in the United States is our national character. Our citizenship in any particular state is only our local distinction. By the latter…

— Thomas Paine

I sometimes feel like a British writer more so than I feel like an American writer. But I think that has to do with…

— Claire Messud

Wherever on this planet ideals of personal freedom and dignity apply, there you will find the cultural inheritance of England.

— Karel Capek

I studied Shakespeare all through high school. Both of my parents teach English and history, so it has always been around my experience as…

— Xavier Samuel