Quotes About Identity

He was too young to begin losing himself.

I was a piece of cheese being shoved into a mold.

My face is full, but also slight, I pale in the bright of light, I whisper sweet to the forest owl, I kiss the air with Wolf's sad howl, Eyes follow me from sea to sea, Yet alone in this world... I will ever be.

I'm afraid of everything. Myself. Mother. Lily. Friends who haunt me in the night. Even going to school, which is something I asked for. If I have attitude, it is hiding somewhere deep, someplace I'm afraid I may never find. Jenna

Kazimyrah, I would sometimes whisper to myself as I slunk away with a meal hidden beneath my coat, because there were days even I forgot who I had once been.

Desperate pieces of string that hold us up but at the same time keep us from being anything other than what we have always been.

It was true that in a measure she could take them with her, but, robbed of their old environments, they would appear in such new guises that they would almost cease to be themselves.

One of the first things which Comfort remembered being told was that she had been named for her Aunt Comfort, who had given her a gold ring and a gold dollar for her name. Comfort could not understand why. It always seemed to her that her aunt, and not she, had given the name, and that she should have given the ring and the dollar; but that was what her mother had told her. "Your Aunt Comfort gave you this beautiful gold ring and this gold dollar for your name," said she.

You were many wonderful things to many people before you met him--don't let this one event define who you are.

The phenomenon of play is local: that is, while the phenomenon of play is universal, the experience of play is intrinsically tied to location and culture.

What are you thinking?" She asks. -That you are beautiful. That not everyone could see it. I almost became the kind of person who could not.

There are no pure people.

All the Jane Austen in the library cannot wash the Queens from this little hand.

The Catholic Church in America is the Irish church. It is our church, end of story. We built it. We paid for it. It is ours. No Mexicans need apply.

I feel, that i am neither a philosopher, nor a heroine – but a woman, to whom education has given a sexual character.

Maud did not see homosexuality either as a crime or a sin; rather, she saw it as an attribute existing most likely from birth, beyond conscious control.

The defendant. For three weeks, everyone in this courtroom had referred to her as "the defendant." Not Casey. Not her given name, Katherine Carter. Certainly not Mrs. Hunter Raleigh III, the name she would have taken by now if everything had been different. In this room, she'd been treated as a legal term, not as a real person, a person who had loved Hunter more deeply than she'd ever thought possible.

Ik ben een goede bewindsvrouwe voor mijn stad,' zei Arianna, 'maar ik ben ook een meisje. En ik ben verliefd op een ander. Als ik niet met hem kan trouwen, zal ik ongetrouwd blijven.

Ja toch? Hertog Luciano van Bellezza, gemaal van de schone duchessa?' 'Ja,' zei Arianna. 'Dat zou kunnen.' 'Zou kunnen?' 'Dat moet je me eerst vragen. 'Ik vraag je.' 'En ik moet eerst ja zeggen.' 'Zeg je ja?' 'Ja,' zei Arianna. 'Met heel mijn hart.' En ze gooide haar masker weg.

Ik denk dat ik domweg te normaal ben. - Ayesha

Ik had beloofd dat ik met niemand anders zou trouwen dan met Filippo. Ik heb niet gezegd welke Filippo. - Beatrice

As a child grows, the Lifebook is used for a multitude of purposes, including helping a child deal with unresolved feelings as they surface. A child's Lifebook should be added to as he journeys through life. It also should be accessible to children any time they feel a need to thumb through it. The Lifebook, after all, belongs to the child.

I suppose," he thought, "it is not good for me to flower as the other plants. If I began like them I should probably end like them, and I feel that I could not be satisfied with that. After all, one should not try to be so much like others, but to be the very best of one's own sort.

I do consider myself part of black history.