Quotes About Identity

No man is ever just one thing.

Her hands flew to her mouth. 'Are we even twins?' Josh rested his hand on her shoulder and brought his forehead to rest against hers, strands of their blond hair mingling. 'I will always be your brother, Sophie. I will always look after you.

We humans are nothing more than the sum of our memories.

Tell me, storyteller, what is the greatest mistake a parent can make? -To believe that your children will be just like you

Do I look like I watch Star Trek?

She knew then that whatever he was -- whoever he was -- he had not lost his humanity.

that Isis and Osiris are not their parents

Know this: if we meet again, I may not remember you." He pulled the thick sheaf of mismatched pages from under his shirt, extracted the topmost sheet and pressed it into her hand. "And if I do not, then give me this. It will remind me of the girl who shed a tear for the lost king. Go now. Get to the leygate.

It is better to exist unknown to the law.

Dee kromp in elkaar en probeerde zich zo klein mogelijk te maken. 'Meesters,' zei hij. 'Vergeef me.' Het paar negeerde hem. Ze staarden naar de tweeling. 'Sophie,' zei de man. 'Josh,' zei de vrouw. 'Mam... pap,' zei de tweeling in koor. Het paar maakte een buiging. 'Hier heten we Isis en Osiris. Welkom in Danu Talis, kinderen. Welkom thuis.

we are nothing more than the sum of our memories and experiences

What is the greatest mistake a parent can make?' she asked. 'To believe that your children will be just like you.

They were the younger guys playing at the end of the Swing Era, just playing their version of it. It became known as bebop, which sounds esoteric, but it was really just an offshoot of swing music." That offshoot, however, almost instantly changed jazz music's identity, advancing it from a danceable idiom played with the audience's casual listening pleasure in mind to a more personal and cerebral modern music.

Later, there were several great white players, as there are today. But when it first matured, it was a black instrument. The saxophone was outside the system and the Negro was on the fringes of society. Together they found their voice." Evoking

If men were equal in America, all these Poles and English and Czechs and blacks, then they were equal everywhere, and there was really no such thing as foreigner; there were only free men and slaves.

My dad used to say, 'You have to become part of the machine to beat the machine ' and there's some validity in it. But honestly, even when I'm inside the machine, you still see me. I stick out a little bit.

I think being a parent is the most challenging thing you do. That's why we're here. It's at the heart of what it is to be a human being. It's the ultimate experience because it questions everything about who you are. But it's difficult.

While I enjoy spending time in L.A., Britain is my home.

Boy? Who the fuck are you calling boy? I've got a bucketful of balls, a yard of dick, and enough hair on my ass to weave ten Navajo blankets. I will take you to fucking man school.

I've always felt that sexuality is a really slippery thing. In this day and age, it tends to get categorized and labeled, and I think labels are for food. Canned food.

My feeling is that labels are for canned food... I am what I am - and I know what I am.

So, we just kind of created our own thing and that's part of the beauty of Athens: is that it's so off the map and there's no way you could ever be the East Village or an L.A. scene or a San Francisco scene, that it just became its own thing.

I'm not homosexual, I'm not heterosexual, I'm just sexual.

I've always felt that sexuality is a really slippery thing. In this day and age, it tends to get categorized and labeled, and I think labels are for food. Canned food.