Quotes About Identity

We thought I was going to be a great athlete, and we were wrong, and I thought I was going to be a great entertainer, and that wasn't it either. I'm going to be an American Citizen. First class.

These are the pieces of my youth, the small secrets and the not-so-great expectations that defined my coming of age.

I've already done enough to have earned 'good driver,' so if I can be known as a great person and a good driver, that's better than only being a great driver.

Great literature transcends its native land, but none that I know of ignores its soil.

To be oneself is a rare thing, and a great one.

Great things happen when you have the courage to be yourself

The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion.

England is perhaps the only great country whose intellectuals are ashamed of their own nationality.

It takes great courage to be vulnerable. It takes enormous strength to be a real woman.

Each person is an enigma. You're a puzzle not only to yourself but also to everyone else, and the great mystery of our time is how we penetrate this puzzle.

It's a beauty one isn't born with, but must fight to construct at great sacrifice.

We are a great country, and whatever choice we make we will still be great. But I believe the choice is between being an even greater Britain inside a reformed EU or a great leap into the unknown.

America is God's Crucible, the great Melting-Pot where all the races of Europe are melting and re-forming!

A great poet is the most precious jewel of a nation.

Not one great country can be named, from the polar regions in the north to New Zealand in the south, in which the aborigines do not tattoo themselves.

My great hope would be that Quebec would realize itself fully as a distinct part of Canada, and stay Canadian, bringing to Canada a part of its richness.

Great Poets discover themselves. Little Poets have to be 'discovered' by somebody else.

Americans, while occasionally willing to be serfs, have always been obstinate about being peasantry.

For real self esteem is not derived from the great things you've done, the things you won. The mark you've made - but an appreciation of yourself for what you are.

My great grandmother was Chinese .

Great tragedy has come to us, and we are meeting it with the best that is in our country, with courage and concern for others because this is America. This is who we are.

Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts - the book of their deeds, the book of their words and the book of their art.

When people say England, they sometimes mean Great Britain, sometimes the United Kingdom, sometimes the British Isles, - but never England.

I am one of the few honest people that I have ever known.