Quotes About Identity

I certainly knew my father. He just didn't happen to be my biological father.

People are supossed to aspire to become their fathers, not shudder at the thought.

Unlike Elise, who could discover parts of a person they didn't even know were absent, you specialized in tangible, but that, I feared, was only a matter of time.

No, well, my father's definitely not Christopher Walken.

Only after my father's death could I speak my own individual truths about him. In a sense, I had to turn him into a character, a figure I could control through language.

I had grown up in a privileged, upper-caste Hindu community; and because my father worked for a Catholic hospital, we lived in a prosperous Christian neighborhood.

I look a lot like my father when he was my age.

It must be quite difficult if you have a father who's sort of known. On the other hand, you can get a job in his band.

right now,I am my father

People "confess" can be wildly different. I might go into the confessional and say, "Father, what is my obsession with miniatures?"

I had a glorious father, I had no father at all.

I can't say I had an ideal father, and I'm not a father myself.

I've always known that my father's father and grandfather and grandmother were from Mexico. I've never denied it. I've always said it.

I am now known as Nina Conti's father and it's wonderful.

I'm always showing pictures off. I have to be careful who I show them to because of who I am, obviously, but I'm a proud father.

Just looking at me, I am a Black man. Born and bred, through and through. But I am also a lot of things. I am a father. I am a husband. I am a Christian. I am a comic book geek and I'm a creator.

I think that not being loved by your parents or not having a brother or not being liked at school or even wearing glasses can be a lot worse than having a famous father.

I'm adopted, so I didn't know my father, but apparently he was pretty tall.

I wasn't allowed to use people's real names, such as my siblings and my children's father, but there's nothing fabricated or untrue in my autobiography.

I was born to an Arab father and I was born Islamic.

I'm Larry Sanders. I'm a person. I'm a father. I'm an artist. I'm a writer. I'm a painter. I'm a musician. And sometimes I play basketball.

When I was a boy I was my father.

It's interesting to be playing a father who's on the other side because that's not my world and not where I came from.

I once asked my father what he wanted me to be. To my horror, he said, 'sociologist.'