Patriotism Quote by Geraldine Brooks

My father was a diplomatic officer. As a diplomat's daughter, you have to learn to present yourself very early on.

— Kathleen Turner

My father was a diplomat for part of his life and I jumped from country to country and culture to culture.

— Walter Salles

I discovered that a diplomat's life is largely entertaining and meeting people. At the end of the day there's nothing. So I gave up.

— Khushwant Singh

With a diplomat father, for whom foreign postings were a fact of life, my siblings and I were expected to attend boarding schools in…

— Arabella Weir

“And this was the end of my first friendship with one of that innumerable company of people who are foreigners in their own country,…

— Maxim Gorky

Originally I wanted to be a diplomat, and by attrition I started giving up that idea.

— John Gimlette

“That is the great thing about being a foreigner—that you get to spend your life with a whole new set of cultural attachments in…

— Bill Bryson

“it is difficult to understand that not everyone in the world wants to be an American.”

— Bruce Cumings

My dad was a diplomat and after living in America, where I was born, he was posted to Cairo.

— Arabella Weir

My dad is an ambassador. My brother is a diplomat. I doubt that I could be doing anything else other than being a diplomat…

— Woody Milintachinda

“You are carrying the future of America in your heart and your mind. So live your dreams and remember, whatever you choose to do…

— Bill Clinton

My family moved - first to Washington, D.C., and then, in the spring of 1975, to Lebanon, where my father worked as a diplomat…

— Greg Kinnear