Quotes About Identity

You may strive to be like them but seek not to make them like you. For life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday.

My parents hated me. All I ever heard was, "Why can't you be like your cousin Shelia? Why can't you be like your cousin Shelia?" Shelia had died at birth.

I think parenting actually makes you lose pieces of your soul again, because they go off, into your children. Or, I mean, I am so fragmented, and I'm such a spacey person.

Who you are is enough for me. I look at you and all I see, is the champion I knew you would be.

When a boy feels as if no one cares about him, or as if he will never amount to anything, he truly believes it doesn't matter what he does.

Don't be sad that I'm autistic. Love me for who I am. All of me. Some things are difficult for me but I'm okay as I am.

Why am I not good at anything?""You're a good dad.""It ain't rocket science."No, Vic thought. It was harder.

You are a victorious ninja because God created you that way!

People say that every person plays the lead role in the movie of their own lives. I don't. I play a side character even in my own life's movie. ~ Mrigank Kashyap

I look in the mirror through the eyes of the child that was me.

Homeland of patience, land of the Russian people.

Life's most rewarding forms of being: Being patient, and, being yourself.

If we ever forget that we are One Nation Under God, then we will be a nation gone under.

Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first; nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first.

A thoughtful mind, when it sees a nation's flag, sees not the flag, but the nation itself.

I won't trade humanity for patriotism.

Patriotism is usually stronger than class hatred, and always stronger than internationalism.

For a writer only one form of patriotism exists: his attitude toward language.

While the rest of the country waves the flag of Americana, we understand we are not part of that. We don't owe America anything - America owes us.

A Canadian is somebody who knows how to make love in a canoe.

I have heard something said about allegiance to the South. I know no South, no North, no East, no West, to which I owe any allegiance.

Socrates said he was not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world.

Nationalism is the love which ties me to the blockheads of my country, to the insultors of my way of life, and to the desecrators of my language.

What is patriotism but the love of the food one ate as a child?