Quotes About Identity

The patriot blood of my father was warm in my veins.

Jekyll had more than a father's interest; Hyde had more than a son's indifference.

I was kosher until I had my Bar Mitzvah, and I parlayed officially becoming a man into telling my father I wanted to eat cheeseburgers.

Everyday I see a little more of my father in me.

What matters most is not what I think I am or am not. What matters is what my Father sees in me and what He says about me.

It doesn't matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was.

Orphans are the only ones who get to choose their fathers, and they love them twice as much.

My father used to say, 'Let them see you and not the suit. That should be secondary.'

You'd never know that listening to people in the UN but tribalism is the father of racism.

I'm a big fan of moustaches. I think it's because - and this is not Freudian innuendo at all - my father has a moustache.

I'm so proud of who I am and where I come from and who my father is.

I don't need my name in lights I'm famous in my Father's eyes Make no mistake He knows my name.

My father? I never knew him. Never even seen a picture of him.

It was into my father's image, the black man, son of Africa, that I'd packed all the attributes I sought in myself, the attributes of Martin and Malcolm, DuBois and Mandela.

My father didn't know his real name. My father got his name from his grandfather and he got his name from his grandfather and he got it from the slave master.

Like my father I, too, was born in Central America - Nebraska.

People do think I'm Jewish. But we're Irish Catholic. My father had a brogue.

Well, I don't play heroes obviously. I never played the guy who gets the girl. It might be interesting to do a part where I was a father in a functional family.

My father always says that heroism is in the Pashtun DNA.

I'm half Hawaiian and the haka is a very sacred thing, something your family teaches you - my father taught me.

Now, when Luke Skywalker unmasks his father, he is taking off the machine role that the father has played. The father was the uniform. That is power, the state role.

My father was a saint. I'm not.

I'm the only Red in our family! You know my father, my brother, my brother-in-law, my 14-year-old niece and two of my uncles are all City season ticket holders. So I'm gonna say 5-0 to United!

You know my father as governor, as president, but I knew him as dad. I was so proud to have the Reagan name and to be Ronald Reagan's son.