Identity Quotes

I'd say that my identity is really a culinary identity, so the way I relate to my national heritage is through its cuisine.

Human beings do metamorphose. They change their identity constantly. However, each new identity thrives on the delusion that it was always in possession of the body it has just conquered.

Motion or change, and identity or rest, are the first and second secrets of nature: Motion and Rest. The whole code of her laws may be written on the thumbnail, or the signet of a ring.

The soul raised over passion beholds identity and eternal causation, perceives the self-existance of Truth and Right, and calms itself with knowing that all things go well.

The progress of religion is steadily to its identity with morals. Strength enters just as much as the moral element prevails.

Harmony of aim, not identity of conclusion, is the secret of sympathetic life.

Storytelling is the greatest activity of any culture. Storytelling is how you build a family, how you pass along identity.

Our identities are as fluid as our personal experiences are diverse.

I have no issues with my identity.

Mother' is not an identity one can just try on for size.

Strikingly consistent across all of the battles in Sudan's history has been a fundamental conflict over what are and what are not seen as legitimate aspects of Sudanese identity.

You remake yourself as you grow and as the world changes. Your identity doesn’t get found. It emerges.

What was transformative was being at the inauguration, reading my poem, and realizing that the quest for home and identity had always been part of my work, but that I'd been home all along.

For me, it's the slow release of my ego and certain belief systems that I identify with that give me comfort and an identity, and it's scary to let go of that.

Without social identity, there is, in fact, no society.

I don't want to mix the identities. Noah Drake isn't Rick Springfield.

Viral videos arent just about being funny. Theyre about identity creation.

My parents raised me to not ever look at race or color, so it doesn't have a big part in my self-identity.

CAPM also makes use of what is called a "definitional identity." This is something that is automatically true, simply because of the way things have been defined.

My newspaper job … is my identity.

By encouraging Americans to adopt a group mentality, the advocates of so called 'diversity' actually perpetuate racism. Their obsession with racial group identity is inherently racist.

No one has their own identity like the Ronettes did back in the day.

Strangely, it is the pig himself becomes The god inside the car

The slavery of identity comes from our refusal to face ourselves. So we must begin the exploration to self-awareness. Where do we start?

The best artists transcend nationality and identity.

I think today that's a very big problem because of the world we live in and the social media and everything... everybody is obsessed with their own identity, but seen through other people.

A thing that happens to migrants is that they lose many of the traditional things which root identity, which root the self.

People have multiple identities.

Everyone has an identity crisis when they are 16 or 17 years old.

History is prone to mistakes in identity, and facts are not always solid things.

If we love and identity people with HIV and other oppressed people, we can help transform the epidemic.

It's much easier to have something that's absolutely definite and has a definite identity, rather than a really generic role.

Being 'one flesh' in marriage means that the relationship is not the source of security, affirmation, control, or value. Those issues of identity need to be rooted in Christ.

I'm really interested in stories about identity - who I am now versus who I used to be.

A lot of my identity as an Aboriginal person is about family.

What we live with is ourselves. And when you have your own identity you are much easier to live with.

So much of your identity in junior high is built on who you're with. You see the world through the lens of how you identify and have been identified at that time.

Without ego I don't know how identity works, I don't know... I need to sit down and re-read some philosophy or something.

Maybe my identity's been stolen. Or maybe I was sleep-shopping!

Play enables us to rearrange our capacities and our very identity so that they can be used in unforeseen ways

You can't run away from your identity. Even if I went to another band, I'd still be Lips from the band Anvil. I've spent my entire life trying to be that, that's what I am. There's nowhere to run.

I imagine that all Americans have a unique relationship in their individual present to their collective past and how that relationship might shape their identities and experiences.

Identity liberalism, as I understand it, is expressive rather than persuasive.

[Identity liberalism] is about recognition and self-definition. It's narcissistic. It's isolating. It looks within. And it also makes two contradictory claims on people.

Is that really the issue [of bathrooms and gender] we want to be pushing leading up to a momentous election like this one? It's that shortsightedness that comes from identity politics.

I think identity issues have their place in the workplace, less so personal behaviors.

Trump's "Make America Great Again" program trumpets a national identity built on scapegoating, self-pity and grandiosity, and the promise of a strongman.

I've seen it [Australia] go from a lot of small towns to big towns, but I think it has found its identity in all this time... it's a very special country, I could easily live here.

I consider myself West African, among other cultural identities, and a writer, among other creative ones.

You never read Spider-Man? Accepting your true identity means understanding that you are a stranger to this world. A freak, ostracized by the very people you want to help.