Quotes About Identity

I would also argue... that we are, by inclination and in terms of our history, we are small 'l' liberals, we Canadians.

The United States of America will sound as pompously in the world or in history as The Kingdom of Great Britain.

Without history we are the prisoners of the accident of where and when we were born.

In a way, I'm very interested in writing about Maine, because I think Maine represents its own kind of history. It's the oldest state, and it's the whitest state.

Tell me how much a nation knows about its own language, and I will tell you how much that nation knows about its own identity.

I'd go down in history for being the most revealing nun ever!

Words are the weights which hold our history in place.

The first step in liquidating a people is to erase its memory. Destroy its books, its culture, its history.

Our own story is even more important for us to know than history.

When we died, no one would know, and that fraction of a moment that was so important to who we were would be gone.

Food might be more immediately important than history but if you don't understand what's been done to you - by your own people and the so-called 'they' - you can never get around it.

God did not make a mistake when He chose you to bear Christ's name at this hinge of history.

It's a great wonder to me, the Irish attachment to our history. What is it but a series of lamentations?

I know so little about any history. How little do I know even about the history of myself.

I don't think I came out of anybody. I think I developed out of the influences I described in My Dark Places. American history, L.A. of the 1950s. I'm comfortable with that.

I think fame is something that you've achieved in your inner self that becomes known to others outside you. There are really very few famous people in history.

It is the vain endeavor to make ourselves what we are not that has strewn history with so many broken purposes and lives left in the rough.

Even though I was never a Yankee fan until I put on the uniform, when you think about the deep history of this organization, you always knew what the Yankees represented.

The history of the United States is the story of people of many backgrounds.

Like most passionate nations, Texas has its own history based on, but not limited by, facts.

We examine and highlight the history of the African descendants in America, and know that each and every one of us has come this far because of our faith in this country.

To be Jewish is to be specifically identified with a history. And if you're not aware of that when you're a child, the whole tradition is lost.

I realized that part of that anger was because I didn't know who I was and where I came from. I didn't know my history.

I am the history of the rejection of who I am