Quotes About Identity

Many people's unhappiness is rooted in the habitual role they play. While our family role may have made sense growing up, it often wreaks havoc in our adult lives.

I wanted to impress people because I was kind of a kid who was lost in the crowd - was sort of my, feeling about childhood was being part of a big family.

This is wonderful, wonderful! Be the bird. You are the bird. Sacrifice yourself to abandoned family values.

There are no illegitimate children - only illegitimate parents.

I am he As you are me And we are all together.

I'm really in touch with my Italian roots. My mom's whole side of the family is there.

As a child I sometimes used to travel to the West Bank to visit my family, so I know what the checkpoints felt like. I knew what it was like to live under occupation.

Religion is so much more than the god you pray to. The religion that you associate with, it's culture, it is family, it is background. That is something that I have always grown up with.

I make a fabulous tofurkey for Thanksgiving. My Mexican-Italian family can't tell the difference.

When I was little, I grew up in a place called Hertfordshire, which is just near London, but out in the country, and I visited Pakistan in the summers to go and see my family on my dad's side.

I don't want to say anything about my kids . . . but I go to PTA meetings under an assumed name!

I want you to know how I feel about my Italian heritage so I'd like to say a few words in Italian: Verdi Pavarotti DiMaggio Valentino De Niro Giuliani. . .

None but a mule denies his family.

There's a time when you have to explain to your children why they were born and it's a marvelous thing if you know the reason by then.

I've never left China. My family's been there for 600 years. But my architecture is not consciously Chinese in any sense. I'm a western architect.

The thing that interests me most about family history is the gap between the things we think we know about our families and the realities.

I do not have to look for credentials for my Polishness and for my patriotism. I'm a Pole. The chronicles of my family go back - as far back as the 13th century.

I want to thank the good lord for making me a yankee

Being famous is wicked but its cool to be normal as well.

I do not like being famous. I like being normal.

Can you still have any famous last words if you're somebody nobody knows?

Being famous was extremely disappointing for me. When I became famous it was a complete drag and it is still a complete drag.

Being famous is just like being in high school. But, I'm not interested in being the cheerleader. I'm not interested in being Gwen Stefani. She's the cheerleader, and I'm out in the smoker shed.

Becoming famous and selling a lot of records doesn't change a thing.