Quotes About Identity

A positive self-image has little relationship to our material circumstances.

I don't want to have to give up me, in order to be his.

My relationship to all my family in Ireland is more to family as a whole. It wasn't that we had a very specific one-on-one relationship.

When you are in a long relationship, sometimes you forget who you are, what you love to do.

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.

I think I sort of have a love/hate relationship with a reputation I have for being the designer who works with grids.

All sporting ambition considered, there should always be a relationship to Germany.

For me, living in the closet corroded my ability to have an honest, open relationship with my God, my loved ones, my constituency and myself.

I have to admit I've always had quite a complex relationship with modeling and with the idea of advertising: not always knowing what I'm advertising and selling.

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.

A form of art that I like is portraiture. I've been thinking about portraiture, and its relationship to writing and literature, biography and autobiography, and so that will be my next thing.

Going into my 20s, I was uncertain, trying to figure out what my relationship to acting is.

My childhood definitely revolved around my relationship with my brother. I wanted to be different. I wanted to find my way of being as intriguing and interesting as he was.

The relationship of black Americans to Obama is sociologically riveting.

I was fascinated to think about a place where men could be the mothers and I thought of my own song-writing and I decided to have a relationship with their daughters.

I am not afraid to say my relationship with my man is important, even vital, to who I am as a person.

I feel like so much more than my gender and so much more than my relationship to my body and my relationship to men. And, but suddenly you're sort of asked to be an expert.

My relationship to the Jewish people has become my strongest human bond, ever since I became fully aware of our precarious situation among the nations of the world.

I don't feel like I have a super straightforward relationship with the idea of fame. It makes me sort of level things out in my own brain almost immediately when I meet someone.

Of course, I didn't imagine then that I could have had a real relationship with any guy. I thought that by virtue of being me I was disqualified.

I met a girl and we ran away, I swore I'd make her happy every day. And how I made her cry, two faces have I.

Intimacy starts with a relationship with yourself, an understanding of who you are.

But, you see, it's not what you do that matters really. It's only you.""Me what?""Just you here. Or you in the city. Or you somewhere in the world. I don't know. Just that.

It's strange being here with you. I hardly know you. But...sometimes it feels like we're the same person born into two different worlds.