Quotes About Recognition

Suddenly she saw a man who was snapping her picture. She stared at him and realized that he was short, had black hair, a hard face, and was wearing a gray suit. He looked to be of Italian descent. Could he possibly be Benny the Slippery One Caputti?

My (Carolyn's) sister says that as a full-time mother she misses her annual review. Whenever she got her review on the job, she knew exactly how well she was doing against her performance goals. But mothering can be a long stretch of unappreciated labor.

All white people looked similar to Negroes but Negroes took care to differentiate between them. On the other hand, all Negroes looked similar to white men but white men did not usually bother to fix the face of a Negro in their minds.

Because things accumulate around your name, said Berenice. You have a name and one thing after another happens to you, and you behave in various ways and do things, so that soon the name begins to have meaning. Things have accumulated around the name, if it is bad and you have a bad reputation, then you just can't jump out of your name and escape like that. And if it is good and you have a good reputation, then you should be content and satisfied.

me parece que este es un Morris Finestein de primera.

Official military reports credited Montgomery with the Combahee River Raid's triumph, yet soldiers recognized this victory as Harriet Tubman's.

Suffragist Susan B. Anthony introduced her as a living legend at the twenty-eighth annual convention of the New York State Women's Suffrage Association, held in 1904.

Just call me the JLo of Interpol.

Depending upon the nature of the cultural information received, the Métis person might decide to identify as First Nations exclusively. Some people may choose to identify as both First Nations and Métis; it is the federal government that requires people to choose one of the two. (p. 45)

Don't ever take it for granted when people look into you're eyes… You've no idea how important it is to be acknowledged. Even if it is an angry glare, because it's when they ignore you, when they look right through you, that you should start worrying.

The trouble with being punctual is that there's nobody there to see it

Sometimes the very thing I am looking for is staring me straight in the face, but I can't see it.

I'm real. And i'm not going anywhere until you open those eyes properly and see me

Don't ever take for granted when people look in your eyes - you've no idea how lucky you are. Actually, forget about the luck, you've no idea how important it is to be acknowledged, even if it is with an angry glare. It's when they ignore you, when they look right through you, that you should start worrying.

Cecelia Ahern asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of the work.

Ljudi za koje sam živjela nisu ni znali da postojim, a ja nisam priznavala postojanje ljudi koji su živjeli za mene.

Don't ever take for granted when people look in your eyes; you have no idea how important it is to be acknowledged. Even if it's an angry stare, because it's when they ignore you, when they look right through you, that you should start worrying.

Tinsley hated the thought of people greeting her with "Where's Julian?" It was like once you were a couple, you ceased to exist as an individual. It made her a little sick to her stomach.

Everybody, she says, has been a good citizen. She will say the name, quickly write it on the sticker, and then have m press it to each of their chests as they leave. It is a line of quiet faces. I take them down in my head. Now, she calls out each one as best as she can, taking care of every last pitch and accent, and I hear her speaking a dozen lovely and native languages, calling all the difficult names of who we are.

Does any program really improve anybody, as much as simply identifying them? And, after identifying them, not ruining them?

You were so sweet when you didn't know who you were.

I didn't see what was in front of me until I thought it might be taken away. - Sam

Thank you, thank you very much.

I had lived too close to the edge of despair and mental illness not to recognize it in others