Quotes About Identity

The day Americans stop viewing explicit patriotism as a virtue and begin to view it as something "eccentric and foolish" is the day we cease to be a great country.

This editorial appeared in The New York Times on June 14, 1940, to mark Flag Day, a holiday that seems to have fallen into neglect in more recent years. Flag Day commemorates the day in 1777 when the Continental Congress adopted the Stars and Stripes as the official flag of the United States.

Never forget that the portfolio's the thing: Inevitably, it will contain poorly performing asset classes—there will always be at least one—but its identity will change from year to year.

Individuality is founded in feeling; and the recesses of feeling, the darker, blinder strata of character, are the only places in the world in which we catch real fact in the making

There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man's lack of faith in his true Self.

It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again.

Circumstance does not make me, it reveals me.

Only necessity understood, and bondage to the highest is identical with true freedom.

Whenever two people meet, there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, each man as the other person sees him, and each man as he really is.

Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive, along with which comes the inner voice which says, 'This is the real me,' and when you have found that attitude, follow it.

So necessary is it not only that we should be what we appear, but appear what we are.

Any old place I can hang my hat is home sweet home to me.

Everyone's story matters.

Mi culpa es todo lo que me queda. Si la pierdo, no habré significado nada, no habré hecho nada, no habré sido nada.

I wouldn't mind bein' buried right here," Francis told Rudy. "You from around here?" "Used to be. Born here." "Your family here?" "Some." "Who's that?" "You keep askin' questions about me, I'm gonna give you a handful of answers.

Haven't you seen that part of me as well? A man's many things. To isolate one part of him and judge him on that alone is to do him an injustice, don't you think?

To kill the Windigo, Meloux had said, you must become a Windigo, too. A man was never just a man. A man was endless possibility waiting to become.

It's not a question anymore of fishing," Sam spoke up. "It's a question of what's right, Cork. We've bent like reeds in a river for generations, bent so far over we've just about forgot how to stand up straight. Look at us now. None of us has ever been so proud of being a Shinnob.

Me, I was growing up scrambling for meaning and I was full of confusion and fear.

Non c'è fine alla crudeltà in questo mondo, e non importa quanto si precipiti in basso, non c'è mai fondo. Ma tu hai una cosa bella in te, Mose. Sei un sioux. Nelle tue vene scorre sangue buono e nobile. Non permettere a nessuno di dirti il contrario.

Specifically he was Dakota but in those days they were known as Sioux. He didn't like being called an Indian which was understandable given the image that had been acid-burned with ridicule and hatred into the minds of white Americans. In the valley of the Minnesota River—hell, maybe everywhere back then—it was dangerous to be an Indian.

There's no end to the cruelty in this world, and no matter how far down you reach, no bottom. But you got one thing going for you, Mose. You're Sioux. There's good, noble blood running through your veins. Don't let anyone ever tell you different.

You have won…Maiev. But the huntress…is nothing without the hunt. You…are nothing…without me.

How do you go to your own house when something has gone bad on the inside, when it doesn't seem like your place to live anymore, when you almost cannot recall living there although it was the place you mostly ate and slept for all your grown-up life? Try to remember two or three things about living there. Try to remember cooking one meal.