Quotes About Identity

You are what you are, I am what I am. It's just as simple as that.

We are global citizens with tribal souls', said the Danish poet Piet Hein.

A good name is seldom got by giving it oneself.

posicionamiento", un concepto popular que se utiliza para indicar cómo debe ubicarse la gente en la mente de otros

Kerry had "unusual" eyes, and she was "strange," and her mother didn't understand her, either.

On hearing this remark, my heart jumped clear up in my throat.. I thought surely it was going to hop right out on the depot platform. I looked up and tried to tell him who I was, but something went wrong. When the words finally came out they sounded like the squeaky old pulley on our well when Mama drew up a bucket of water.

By the age of twenty the distinctly Branwellian qualities would be developed from which he would never again shake himself free.

Eugene saw that God-part of people. He saw that and defined me in that way. The other stuff didn't define me. That was astounding. -Cuba Odneal

Bizzarro popolo gli italiani. Un giorno 45 milioni di fascisti. Il giorno successivo 45 milioni tra antifascisti e partigiani. Eppure questi 90 milioni di italiani non risultano dai censimenti.

People who brag of their ancestors are like root vegetables. All their importance is underground.

Names are important. They have to be neither too ordinary nor too queer, just a name, like a face, that'll go along with the crowd.

in the best society hardly anyone can be certain who their father is.

Demelza con la sua femminilità appena sbocciata. Una ragazzina appassionata che si rotolava nella polvere con il suo brutto cane; una ragazza che conduceva dei buoi; una donna... il resto aveva davvero importanza?

Tedn't fair. Tedn't just. Tedn't British.

Chi sarebbe stata quel mattino: l'allegra domestica che vedeva alla luce del giorno o la sconosciuta dalla bocca di seta che aveva incontrato in quella notte d'estate?

We are all worms, But I do believe that I am a glow worm.

A modest little person, with much to be modest about.

We have always found the Irish a bit odd. They refuse to be English.

A man will perhaps tolerate an offensive word applied to himself, but will be infuriated if his nation, his rank, or his profession is insulted.

St Patrick was a Roman Briton of good family dwelling probably in the Severn valley.

Sinn Fein,' 'Ourselves alone

the French Canadians… derived greater pleasure from singing "God Save the King" than from singing "Rule Britannia.

India is a geographical term. It is no more a united nation than the Equator.

I must confess to some sentiment about old Ireland, in spite of the ugly mask she tries to wear.