Quotes About Identity

We cannot think too highly of our nature, nor too humbly of ourselves.

If you are cast in a different mould to the majority, it is no merit of yours: Nature did it.

What persons are by starts they are by nature.

I want to realize brotherhood or identity not merely with the beings called human, but I want to realize identity with all life, even with such things as crawl upon earth.

You can do what you want. But it's nature to be with your own. I want to be with my own.

If you're short, don't wear extremely high heels. After a certain age, you shouldn't wear little girls' clothes. That's going against your nature.

I have no idea where my pathetic nature comes from. If I thought about it too long, it would depress me.

I was escaping from Nature and at last becoming myself, that Other whom I was aspiring to be in the eyes of others.

If you need to conceal your true nature to get in the door, understand that you'll probably have to conceal your true nature to keep that job.

Every name is real. That's the nature of names.

No black man wants a blue-eyed black child, and no white man wants a kinky-haired white child. Nature didn't mean it to be that way.

Brand a man as a thief and no one will ever hire him for honest labor - he will be a hardened robber within weeks. The brand does not reveal a person's nature, it shapes it.

On the stage one must not confuse the nature of a personality with the naturalness of a person.

Man in a word has no nature; what he has... is history.

What is part of you, you cannot get rid of, even if you were to throw it away.

No material object, however beautiful or valuable, can make us feel loved, because our deeper identity and true character lie in the subjective nature of the mind.

Besides, you're a cat. It's your nature to think you're the center of the universe.

Nature is not slow to equip us in the prison-uniform of the party to which we adhere.

My fascination is not for cinema; it's for human nature and human beings because I find it quite difficult being one at times.

I don't just commit sin. Apart from God, I am sinful. My problem is not just what I do; it's who I am without His nature.

When I first began to combine letters other than Hebrew, I read every book in German that came my way, and from these I certainly received according to the nature of my soul.

In recent poems, I have abandoned the theme of not being able to write for an even more obsessive subject, the nature of language, particularly English, in the formation of my imagination and being.

I don't want to be a vampire. A lot of other people do and I think it's that dual nature - we have, you know, terrifying/intriguing.

To me, Hillary [Clinton] looks alright. She looks like the kind of woman I admire. She doesn't seem to have distorted her essential nature.