Quotes About Identity

When I woke up this morning, I found I'd turned into my mother.

When you get up in the morning, you merely put on your clothes. When a colored man gets up in the morning, he puts on his armor.

A famous person to themselves, they don't get up in the morning and think, I'm famous. I'm not famous to me. Famous is a perception.

I have a problem about being nearly sixty: I keep waking up in the morning and thinking I'm thirty-one.

All you care about is how punk rock you feel when you wake up in the morning.

I vowed to never use my American accent, and I didn't. Even going to get the paper in the morning to buying milk down at the shop, getting a cab, wherever.

It is odd how one can feel like someone else early in the morning - bigger, cleaner, so much more alive.

It is astonishing just how much of what we are can be tied to the beds we wake up in in the morning, and it is astonishing how fragile that can be.

I didn't wake up one morning and not be in the Replacements. We're all that forever, and I've just grown older. I mean, I haven't lost anything. I've gained a few things.

I dream of a morning when Filipinos can wake up from the centuries-long sleep that took them from their past and denied them their destiny as a people.

I woke up every morning hoping to die and then spent the rest of the day wondering if maybe I was already dead because I couldn't even tell the difference.

I went to art and design high school with a lot of people taking fashion. They would get up in the morning, and what they put on meant a lot to them.

A people's relationship to their heritage is the same as the relationship of a child to its mother.

The precursor of the mirror is the mother's face.

Have a sense of pride in your motherland. Just as your mother has given birth to you, so too the land has given birth to you.

I am not quite sure where home is right now. I do have places in London and Milan, and a house in Spain. I guess I would say home is where my mother is, and she lives in Spain.

The feminists took me as a role model, as a mother. It bothers me. I am not interested in being a mother. I am still a girl trying to understand myself.

I have my mother's hips...I have an apple bottom.

When in many societies, fathers are usually known by their sons, I am one of the few fathers who is known by his daughter, and I'm proud of it.

I think a child should be allowed to take his father's or mother's name at will on coming of age. Paternity is a legal fiction.

No matter how successful I got, my mother still thinks I'm a bad person, basically.

My father's father came from Russia; my mother came from Romania.

It was Kovacs who said "Mother" then, muffled under latex. It was Kovacs who closed his eyes. It was Rorschach who opened them again.

I came from a divorced mother and father, obviously mixed race.