Quotes About Identity

Japan and Singapore never had more than a sprinkling of inhabitants of European descent, yet they are as prosperous as many parts of Western Europe.

Until 1726 they had to wear specific markers, two concentric yellow rings for men and a striped veil for women. All Jews had to pay a special poll tax.

Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act!

I don't think anyone ever remembers what they were really like as kids. Adults think they do, but they don't. Photos and videos don't capture the real you, or bring back to life the person you used to be. You have to return to the past to do that.

Better to die for my people in my own land than rule in another and suffer a lifetime of cowardly guilt.

I know who the demon thief is - it's me!

I mean, seriously, what lady of taste could resist a shiny green head of hair like mine?

We cannot help where we are born or how we are raised, Tel Hesani said. But we can reject the twisted beliefs of those around us if we need to. Our loved ones and elders don't always know what is best. A man should listen to his heart and make his own decisions about what is wrong and what is right.

We don't grow fangs, you idiot!

Bloody humans!' I grumbled, kicking a postbox in anger. 'Bloody Vampires! We should all be turtles or something!

I'm not a human anymore

Better to die with pride than live in shame, Arra retorted. Kurda cursed quietly to himself. How about it, Darren? he asked. Will you face death just to prove yourself to these fools? No, I said, and saw a pained look cross Mr. Crepsley's face. But I'll face death to prove myself to me , I added. When the red-cloaked vampire heard that, he beamed proudly and raised a clenched fist in salute.

thing I was sure the Little People could never do. In a creaky, slow, mechanical tone — he spoke. "Name . . . not Lefty. Name . . . Harkat . . . Harkat Mulds." And his lips spread into a jagged gash, which was as close to a smile as he could come.

After all, in this world of humans, he was little better than a monster, and what did a monster have to be afraid of in the dark?

But knowing me the way I do (now that sounds weird!)

You like Nick a lot, don't you, Nora? Dorothy asked. He's an old Greek fool, but I'm used to him. Charles isn't a Greek name. It's Charalambides, I explained. When the old man came over, the mugg that put him through Ellis Island said Charalambides was too long...too much trouble to write... and whittled it down to Charles. It was all right with the old man; they could have called him X so they let him in.

The hell of it, Miss- Is your name Wonderly or Leblanc?' She blushed and murmured: 'It's really O'Shaughnessy - Brigid O'Shaughnessy

That's what it was. He wasn't any more Wynant than I am. You know how it is: we told the Philly police he'd sent a wire from there and broadcasted his description, and for the next week anybody that's skinny and maybe got whiskers is Wynant to half of the State of Pennsylvania.

You can't walk out on yourself.

Character: our habitual way of operating. HOW we are is WHO we are!

If Peter was nine, and a new boy came to St. Norbert's Home for Wayward Boys who said he was ten, why, then, Peter would declare himself eleven. Also, he could spit the farthest. That made him the undisputed leader.

No man had ever knocked little Richard down. But of course Ammm was not a man.

People who insist on being addressed as "doctor" because they have Ph.D.'s, as if these degrees represent an important achievement, rather than a reluctance to leave college;

The best way to learn Japanese is to be born as a Japanese baby, in Japan, raised by a Japanese family.