Quotes About Identity

I'm not saying my mother didn't like me, but she kept looking for loopholes in my birth certificate.

Every man must define his identity against his mother. If he does not, he just falls back into her and is swallowed up.

My father is Swedish and my mother is French.

I think that people assumed I was white because of my last name. My father is Caucasian, my mother is Hispanic. But English was my second language, believe it or not.

My real name is Mica, spelled with a C. My dad is called Michael. He wanted me to be called Michael but my mother said over her dead body. She wasn't into the whole junior thing.

Countries are either mothers or fathers, and engender the emotional bristle secretly reserved for either sire.

When mothers know who they are and who God is and have made covenants with Him, they will have great power and influence for good on their children.

My mother is the source of my unease in the world and thus the only person who can make me feel at home in the world.

There's no more important bonding thing than a mother doing the daughter's hair. We sit at our mother's knee and learn who we are.

Being Elvis Presley's daughter is a whole lot of pressure. It's been a constant burden in my life.

I have my mother who is an Irish-Italian, and my father who is African, so I have the taste buds of an Italian and the spice of an African.

My father was the Formica King of Long Island, and my mother was the daughter of a Bengal Lancer in India.

Every woman becomes their mother. That's their tragedy. And no man becomes his. That's his tragedy.

I know I'm talented, but I wasn't put here to sing. I was put here to be a wife and a mom and look after my family.

Sometimes I'm afraid that my daughter might think that I get my hair done for a living.

I don't know if my mother was a narcissist - or bi-polar or borderline. Those were words she tossed around over the years.

Gender reassignment is an exorcism of the mother

I was Hannah Montana's mother ... Where did I go wrong?

I don't see a white woman. I see a black woman, even though my mother is white. Knowing that has made my life easier, I think.

I'm sure you think that I don't understand what you're going through, but I do. It's just that sometimes, our future is dictated by what we are, opposed to what we want.

The English was really my mother, it was never me. Being the daughter of my father, I always felt very French.

Out of Ireland have we come, great hatred, little room, maimed us at the start. I carry from my mother's womb a fanatic heart.

As the son of a Protestant Christian mother and a Shia Muslim father, I have nevertheless ended up without a religious bone in my body.

Happiness is not everything and men have their duties. Mine is to find my mother, a homeland