Quote by Kapka Kassabova

Nations don't start out. There is not a particular moment when they unveil the essence of themselves. They are always a work in progress.

— Simon Schama

Nations, like men, have their infancy.

— Henry Bolingbroke

“When the soul of a man is born in this country there are nets flung at it to hold it back from flight. You…

— James Joyce

“No nation has been on earth since the beginning of time and the very concept of nationhood is pretty recent. Despite that, most nations…

— Milan Kundera

I wish to put together an imaginary nation. It is my belief that no other nation is possible, or rather, I believe that authors…

— Robin Blaser

Beneath the surface of states and nations, ideas and language, lies the fate of individual human beings in need. Answering their needs will be…

— Kofi Annan

“Nations, like individuals, have been always disposed from interest or vanity to forget their day of small things; like individuals, too, they have always…

— Hutcheson Macaulay Posnett

Nations! What are nations? Tartars! and Huns! and Chinamen! Like insects they swarm. The historian strives in vain to make them memorable. It is…

— Henry David Thoreau

Being formed into a nation takes some doing.

— Desmond Tutu

This is the land of dreamings, a land of wide horizons and secret places. The first people, our ancestors, created this country in the…

— Hetti Perkins

There are no nations! There is only humanity. And if we don't come to understand that right soon, there will be no nations, because…

— Isaac Asimov

“Nations rise and fall, flourish and decay, by what they believe in and by what their culture stands for.”

— Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha