Quotes About Identity

I grew up with the dread of seeing piles of old newspapers collect dust and used matches put back into matchboxes. But more than that, I dreaded the memories that were not mine, yet were so adamant to be heard and remembered as the only memories that mattered.

I had only wanted to stay invisible, but there as elsewhere invisibility is a luxury.

All the same, the doll, like all dolls, cannot even be called dead, as it was never alive.

America and fame: they are equally useful if you want freedom from your mother.

What a tragedy that would have been, living an interchangeable life, looking for interchangeable excitements.

The daughter who had escaped the sad fate envisioned by her mother had become a mother herself, and was now horrified that the ghost of her mother's fear had decided to make its home in her own heart.

What one carries from one point to another, geographically or temporally, is one's self. Even the most inconsistent person is consistently himself.

Sometimes I think there must be two Yogi Berras. There is the one who grew up on the Hill in St, Louis, who's been playing ball for the Yankees for fourteen years, has a beautiful wife named Carmen and three boys, Larry, Timmy, and Dale, and lives in a nice house in Montclair, N. J. That's me. Then there's the one you read about in the papers who is a kind of a comic-strip character, like Li'l Abner or Joe Palooka.

Have the courage and strength to be yourself. Because there is no other choice. Do you have a choice of being somebody else?

water talk you are water I'm water we're all water in different containers that's why it's so easy to meet someday we'll evaporate together. but even after the water's gone we'll probably point out to the containers and say, "that's me there, that one" we're container minders

Ari-Name-geändert fixierte mich und sagte, du hast behauptet, du wärst ein Angsthase, und jetzt bist du hier der einzig Furchtlose. Ich rief ihm zu, ich hätte nur Angst, bis was passiere, aber wenn es dann einträte, wäre sie weg.

Ain't you been listening? I'm YUSUKE URAMESHI... the same ornery dawg you've always known and loved. So I have a DEMON ANCESTOR! Big Deal! I'm still going To KICK Sensui's sorry butt! -Yusuke

Every act is an expression of one's self.

One smiling woman shook my hand and said, 'My, but you speak English so beautifully.' She had meant to compliment me, but I was so astonished,, I didn't know what to say. I realized she had seen only my outer self — my Japanese face — and addressed me as a foreigner. I knew then that I would always be different, even thought I wanted so badly to like my white American friends.

Anything with human form will resemble someone you know.

I recently came across this anonymous message on Facebook: "The rebirth of Israel didn't occur because of the Holocaust. The Holocaust occurred because there was no Israel.

the land of Israel would unite the people of Israel, not, God forbid, divide them.

Sometimes, in political arguments with Palestinians, I would be told: Why are we arguing about who owns the land, when in the end the land will own us both?

When human glory rises high As human glory can; When though the king is truly great, Still greater is the man.

Men are but men; we did not make ourselves.

Perception is reality. If you are perceived to be something, you might as well be it because that's the truth in people's minds.

I'm not an actual author but an accidental one.

Disconnect your identity from what you produce, and that's a hard thing for us because we think of our significance, worth and value based on what we do instead of who we are.

Politics is politics art is art. If you play a political role, you have to stop being an artist.