Quotes About Identity

I am a soul in the world: in the world of my soul the whirled light from the day the sacked land of my father.

I know who I am as a person, as a father, and as a husband.

My father was a statesman, I'm a political woman. My father was a saint. I'm not.

Yet while my Hector still survives, I see My father, mother, brethren, all in thee.

It's hard when your father's the coach. Sometimes you don't know where one leaves off and the other begins.

I realize that when I moved out of my father's house I shocked and frightened him because I needed a room of my own, a space of my own to reinvent myself.

I was raised in Chicago, so always used Latina. It's what my Father and brothers called ourselves, when we meant the entire Spanish-speaking community of Chicago.

The similarities between me and my father are different.

You can't compare me to my father. Our similarities are different.

Always you find that the more decisive event wins so my father's sort of annual decisiveness which came upon him on the Day of Atonement every year, he suddenly remembered that he was Jewish.

My parents split up when I was about 2. I realize more and more how much I'm like my father. My gentleness comes from my mother.

My father is Jaime Rodriguez from San Antonio, Texas, and I've got one whole half of my family that's Mexican through and through.

No adult in my family would ever tell me anything about who my father was. I knew from an older cousin - only four years older than I am - everything, or what little I could discover about him.

I grew up in an abusive home and was told on a daily basis by my father that I would never amount to anything and that I looked like a boy.

It was the first rent in the holy image of my father, it was the first fissure in the columns that had upheld my childhood, which every individual must destroy before he can become himself.

My mother's family came from the British West Indies. And my father's family came from, well, my father's father came from the Montana/South Dakota area. They were Blackfoot Indian.

My family is part Creole, and were Indian, and were also very, very black. My father was so black, he was blue.

How rude would I be, walking around and saying: 'Hello. I'm Eleanor Mondale. My father was vice president of the United States. Treat me differently.

In school, kids never really looked at me a different way because I think it was a different generation; they didnt really know who my father was.

You don't want to do what your parents want you to do. You got your own things. And the whole idea of getting a job because of who your father is - that didn't isn't right.

My mother is a Muslim - she walks five steps behind my father. She doesn't have to. He just looks better from behind.

I've been a biker, I've been a convict, I've been a husband, father, and son.

I hadn't thought about the fact that I was a foster child but, did notice that (in films) I'm often without a mother or father or both.

Jews who long have drifted from the faith of their fathers... are stirred in their inmost parts when the old, familiar Passover sounds chance to fall upon their ears.