Quotes About Identity

There's a fine line between patriotism and corn.

For you are the makers of the flag and it is well that you glory in the making.

Xenophobia is dangerous, but patriotism is a good thing.

Let no American imagine that Zionism is inconsistent with patriotism. Multiple loyalties are objectionable only if they are inconsistent.

It seems that American patriotism measures itself against an outcast group. The right Americans are the right Americans because they're not like the wrong Americans, who are not really Americans.

Throughout my professional basketball career, I have always voiced my patriotism for my native land.

I think English film is very embarrassed by patriotism, generally.

Patriotism is something I wear in my heart not on my head.

But my patriotism goes for something beyond what we have. We don't have something that I want to die for - anymore.

Jews have had to carry around their own sense of self in a carpet bag and I think perhaps too much emphasis might be being put on nationality and on the other hand patriotism, that sort of thing.

I want America to be more like America, if you will. I want the songs, that patriotism we have.

I think patriotism is never racism.

I don't need a certificate of my patriotism from those in the establishment.

Undeniable though it is that many Indian Muslims misguidedly consider Pakistan their haven, the immeasurably greater number who take intense pride in being Indian and who connect deeply with the country are hurt and angered at our patriotism being under scrutiny.

God doesn't really have to have a concern for my patriotism, but I am an American, and we were blessed to be born in America.

They call me racist too just because I disagree with a President who happens to be black. You are not racists - you are patriots.

I am against nationalists, but I am very much in favour of patriots.

Many people have been pontificating, and patronizing, and moralizing, and scapegoating, saying you Greeks, you are the problem. I would say we Greeks have a problem. We are not the problem.

We choose our sex, our color, our country, and then we look around for the particular set of parents who will mirror the pattern we are bringing in to work on in this lifetime.

I think people could justify labeling me if they saw a pattern in what I do, but right now that's impossible.

I tend to have a pattern of playing misunderstood characters.

I think I can see more clearly now - about how the pattern of past experiences has shaped who I am and the characters I have played - and I'm grateful for that.

In a way, I pattern myself after all the bands I used to like as a kid. Every time they put out LPs, they had a whole new look and a new sound.

In Benin, there's a thing that family members wear the same pattern of traditional African clothing.