Quotes About Identity

My family joke that I'm really a very senior person who accidentally happens to be 11.

Storytelling is the greatest activity of any culture. Storytelling is how you build a family, how you pass along identity.

I grew up in a fundamentalist protestant family that stressed that we were a select people and so we were to avoid contact with others who did not share our faith.

You are part of our Great British family.

My religion is complicated. Literature is my true religion. After all, I come from a completely non-religious family.

Whatever role we were in our family of birth, we take on this persona and in your 20s and 30s in particular, you end up thinking that's you and that isn't necessarily you.

Both my parents are Scottish, and although I grew up in Canada after moving over, all of my family are proud to be Scots.

All I wanted to do was please my adopted family.

There's not much of a follow-your-dreams kind of vibe in New Zealand or my family.

In my very own self, I am part of my family.

I'm a native New Yorker. Everything to do with New York feels like my family.

Speaking more than one language and living in a multicultural family and environment did not seem like anything but what it was: the world I lived in.

I come from a family of 12, so I kind of got a little lost as a child.

Yeah, my family is of Indian heritage.

I also discovered that I was a poet. From the standpoint of one's family this is probably a regrettable discovery.

I was born in Norwich in 1946, and educated in England, Zimbabwe, and Australia, before my family settled in North Wales.

I think that is a great, great thing, to create your own identity and foster a true family spirit.

It's the downside of a family business: anything good is because I'm somebody's son; otherwise, I'm a schmuck.

I lived in New York for maybe a year and a half, from '95 to '97, but I live in Dallas. My whole family is there.

Etgar means "challenge." And my family name is Keret, which means "urban." So my name is "urban challenge." My joke is, it's a good description of a birth but a strange name for a human being.

My family calls me Declan. But most people call me E.C. I think it comes from my dad. It's an Irish convention. You usually call the first child by the initials.

Remember always that the least plain sister is the family beauty.

If I felt like a fish out of water in my family, I felt like a fish on Mars in Adam's circle.

In our family, being powerful means you never, ever apologize for being a woman.