National Icon Quotes

I've written before that the president is our national avatar - a stand-in for what we believe we are, or want to be.

I want to say unequivocally the Queen is magnificent. She is the enduring force, she is the glue that makes everyone feel good. She is beloved. I would rue the day when she may not be here.

The White House is a strange place.

I've been voted one of Australia's 50 national treasures. I've even had my face on an Australian stamp - the only non-Australian to do so, apart from the Queen, of course.

Father of the Country [Pater Patriae]

Geoffrey Tozer's death is a national tragedy. For the Australian arts and Australian music, losing Tozer is like Canada having lost Glenn Gould, or France, Ginette Neveu. It is a massive cultural loss. The kind of loss people felt when Germany lost Dresden.

The Sun in London ran a front page declaring my bum a national treasure. I really did laugh at that. Its not like it can actually do anything, except wiggle.

He's an American treasure, I would be honored to fight Tom Hanks.

I don't think Pele was the ultimate hero for our generation, he is the ultimate hero of every generation of Brazilians.

Modiji is a BJP worker, and crores of karyakartas are proud of the fact that an ordinary worker has become a beloved personality in India and abroad.

I am like a cartoon strip; I am like Donald Duck; everybody knows me in Italy.

Australians were unique due to our corals, our apples, our gum trees and our kangaroos.

He was a very private person, but then, you know, he belonged to the whole United States. The United States thought they owned Johnny Carson.

I hate it when people call me a 'national treasure.' It takes away your bite and makes you feel like a harmless old golden Labrador.