Identity Quotes

Perhaps it's impossible to wear an identity without becoming what you pretend to be.

The music we listen to may not define who we are. But it’s a damn good start.

I am part of everyone I ever dated on OK Cupid.

Why does watching a dog be a dog fill one with happiness?

I'm right at a time when I'm strongly finding my identity inside of my work.

Strengthening our identity is one way or reinforcing people's confidence and sense of citizenship and well-being.

For the duration of its collective life, or the time during which its identity may be assumed, each class resembles a hotel or an omnibus, always full, but always of different people.

Identity is something that you are constantly earning.

I grew up in newsrooms. I've been in newsrooms since I was 17 years old. Journalism has been like my church; it's been like my identity.

You and I, today and always, are to bear witness of Jesus Christ and declare the message of the Restoration. ... Missionary work is a manifestation of our spiritual identity and heritage.

A carpenter is known by his chips.

I grew up with art from the innocent age of ten - with art, but with no sense of identity.

Everyone enjoys stories of double lives and secret identities. Children have Superman; intellectuals have Wallace Stevens.

Bruce Wayne is Batman. He became Batman the instant his parents were murdered. Batman needs Bruce, however hollow that identity feels to him from time to time. Bruce keeps Batman human.

The Christian's comfort: I am not my own. I do not make my own rules or create my own identity. There is one who made me and can save me.

I have managed to establish an identity that is based on my internal self, and for that I feel tremendously lucky.

Nature forms us in a certain manner, both inwardly and outwardly, and it is in vain to attempt to alter it.

There is enough Christianity in our country's history to make it a significant component of our heritage and identity.

There is no German identity without Auschwitz.

Identity issues are hardwired into the way I think about character - it's almost as if I can't get away from them even if I want to.

I knew an actor's career goes up and down and back up again. Your standing in this business can't be your whole identity; otherwise, you're doomed

I've reached the 50th year of my life, and now every question related with life also includes thinking about death. When I leave, I want to leave to my offspring a clear idea about identity.

Natural religion supplies still all the facts which are disguised under the dogma of popular creeds. The progress of religion is steadily to its identity with morals.

Is the acorn better than the oak which is its fullness and completion?

When Ulysses hears his own story sung by an epic poet and then he reveals his identity and the poet wants to continue singing, Ulysses isn't interested any longer. That's very astonishing.

And when I met Cecil Taylor it was a complete transformation of musical identities. All the tenets that I had grown up with were thrown out the window.

In the mirror of your paper you will discover your identity as an artist.

Somebody stole my identity. Good luck using it without the medications.

The intention makes the crime.

Your illness is not your identity. Your chemistry is not your character.

Every day I go forth to seek my identity, feeling greatly blessed by the things I don't find it in.

I didn't have an identity. It was manufactured. My identity now? It was written on the wall by ancient forces.

That's why 'The Bourne Identity' has that sort of shaky style, because for the most part, Matt Damon and I were sneaking around Paris and shooting where we didn't have permits.

As long as you make an identity for yourself out of pain, you cannot be free of it.

It is once again the vexing problem of identity within variety; without a solution to this disturbing problem there can be no system, no classification.

AB=1/4((A+B)^2-(A-B)^2) is an amazing identity, and unfortunately, I have to remind my current students how to prove it.

I think the issues of identity mostly are poppycock. We are what we have done, which includes our promises, includes our hopes, but promises first.

In adolescence you have to separate yourself and establish your identity. So, being very independent anyway, I took charge.

We all need a firm sense of identity.

You become most powerful in whatever you do if the action is performed for its own sake rather than as a means to protect, enhance, or conform to your role identity.

If you look at our world, we're becoming so much more diverse in every sense of the word. It's not just about culture or identity. It's also about the different ways we communicate.

In saying my prayers, I discovered the voice of an innermost self, the raw nerve of my identity.

The arts give us our identity as a community; they also draw new people, fresh visions, and renewable economic opportunity to our community.

I just believed. I believed that the technology would change people's lives. I believed putting real identity online - putting technology behind real identity - was the missing link.

Battling evil, cruelty, and injustice allows us to retain our identity, a sense of meaning, and ultimately our freedom.

Culture has become one of the last elements of our identity. We have to act in favor of cultural diversity abroad as well as at home, we need strong cultural diplomacy but we have to create it.

I'm really interested in the intersection between reputation, identity, and knowledge.

Many a man who has known himself at ten forgets himself utterly between ten and thirty.

When the Christian loses himself, he finds himself, he discovers his true identity.

We wander, question. But the answer waits in each separate heart - the answer of our own identity and the way by which we can master loneliness and feel that at last we belong.