Identity Quotes

Man, through the cow, is enjoined to realize his identity with all that lives.

We strive all the time to give our life its form, but we do so by copying willy-nilly, like a drawing, the features of the person that we are and not of the person we should like to be.

I think I appeal to people who are living in the margins because of their identity and who need to feel freedom somewhere.

All manifestation of fear is a reflection of the fact that humanity has forgotten its spiritual identity. In beginning to remember it, we put fear on notice that its days are numbered.

I guess I'm drawn to stories of people whose physicality puts them on the outside of things in order to explore the ways in which an identity is formed around these prevailing attitudes.

It's interesting how identity politics and Ann Coulter-style tactics have now blossomed. But they were always there in CPAC.

If you're always under the pressure of real identity, I think that is somewhat of a burden.

Today, the Ravens answered: What is our identity? 'We are the same old team. We can play the same style of football.

You can be a French Canadian or an English Canadian, but not a Canadian. We know how to live without an identity, and this is one of our marvellous resources.

Huck Finn. Loss of identity drives people to nostalgia. Electronic man has no physical body, so he [Jimmy Carter] puts nostalgia in its place.

While you cannot resolve what you are, at last you may be nothing.

The only person that I'm really feeling - because she has an identity of her own, even though she has listened to Mary J. Blige - is Jill Scott.

It's challenging to find an identity as a young person if you don't have the sustenance of love, because you're being shipped around.

Then my life crashed and burned down: trials, men, drama, no self-love, no identity. A little identity, but not a lot of love for myself, my life.

I've written and translated my own poems from English to German. It's basically a summation of my identity as it stands now.

I'm really suspicious of anybody who comes in and says, this is your identity now, or this is your belief system, and now that you have this, everything's going to be great.

Since the end of the Cold War, America has been grasping left and right for an identity.

The first step that leads to our identity in life is usually not 'I know who I am,' but rather 'I know who I am not.'

Identity is part of drama to me. Who am I, why am I behaving this way, and am I aware of it?

To say a thing simply: I am my history, but the story of my life is always guarded, self-conscious. It is finally the only story we give to someone we love.

Our identity as the people of God is marked primarily by our faithfulness in obedience to Him.

It is more than enough to be an ethically and an evolutionarily developed human being. All other titles and identities of man are inferior to this fact!

To me, at forty-four years old, my book was a search for truth and identity.

Blackness is not simply a reactionary title or identity; that is indeed the "negative" way of characterizing African American identity.

There's no point in arguing with partisan supporters. Their views are their identity. Nothing you can tell the most phlegmatic follower.

Time is the enemy of identity

I consider myself an average man, except in the fact that I consider myself an average man.

Identity for me is something that has to be played with and explored, and not become complacent about or uninterested in.

It took me many years to understand that my identity is more Israeli than Jewish.

I have this identity for myself as a writer and the only thing that can happen is that I chip away from it.

I know it may sound silly, but I think my short stories have a life and identity of their own. They crop up in all sorts of places.

Your real identity is your spiritual being. And every problem, if you're a spiritual being, every problem has a spiritual solution.

Our diversity is not something that is on paper. It is the manifestation of our strength. It is not only our identity but also our tradition.

We want to change the identity of Delhi from Generator Capital to Power Generation Capital.

It’s hard to find backbone.I never had crisis of identity. But I think many Americans have it.

We have taken a physical identity so that we may express our divine identity. And every moment in our life provides us with an opportunity to do that.

Also, where does your identity come from? Your memory, of course.

Identity can be so gelatinous sometimes.

My identity is deeply intertwined with being a refugee because that's the first experience that I remember.

Becoming a vampire means completely changing your identity.

Sometimes I try to lose my identity, and I can't get rid of it!

I don't believe anyone can go through the prison experience without being changed by it. The experience becomes part of your identity forever.

We don't act the same in every situation. Things bleed into all kinds of other things, from behavior to identity.

I've never been disbarred, committed or convicted of moral turpitude, and the only time I was arrested, it was a case of mistaken identity...I didn't know the guy I hit was a cop.

In America, we have a bifurcated country, we have a polarized country. One of the reasons I think it's polarized is because of identity politics on the left.

I talk about things like how to lose without losing identity. All loss and grief feels like when you transition.

My identity was stolen by two separate peoplewho I hope are playing me better

Having viewed Europe as an extension and projection of itself, France now finds Europe developing a mind and identity of its own which embraces France but is not controlled by France.

Every people deserves to conserve its identity without being ideologically colonised.

Families have a citizenship which is divine. The identity card they have is given to them by God. So that within the heart of the family, truth, goodness and beauty may truly grow.