Quotes About Identity

If there was one thing I refused to be, it was an insignificant footnote in some boy's history.

A lot of what's been written about me is not true: of my family history or my choices or my interests. Actually, I've never read anything written about me that was true. It's been completely crazy.

What kind of people do we wish to become, and how do we know an American when we see one? Is it possible to pursue a common purpose without a common history or a standard text?

Each of us is born with a history already in place

I do consider myself part of black history.

She was a voice with a body as afterthought, a wry smile that sailed through heavy traffic. Give her a history and she'd disappear.Eric Packer about Vija Kinski

Jesus' birthday is commercialized, so of course, Black History Month is commercialized.

Historically, I come from Jewish history. I had the classic upbringing in the Yeshiva, learning, learning, and more learning.

Home is not where you were born; home is where all your attempts to escape cease.

I have learned and dismantled all the words in order to draw from them a single word: Home.

I missed my home - like the physicality of my home, I missed my friends and my family mostly and just hanging out and being in your home country - culturally it feels right and that is what I miss.

I could never leave my home.... It inspires me a lot.

There's one beneficial effect of going to Moscow. You come home waving the American flag with all your might.

The weakness of so many modern Christians is that they feel too much at home in the world

I am truly a "lone traveler" and have never belonged to my country, my home, my friends, or even my immediate family, with my whole heart.

One must seek the shortest way and the fastest means to get back home-to turn the spark within into a blaze, to be merged in and to identify with that greater fire which ignited the spark.

The thing about coming back to the Bay Area, it's like coming home for me.

A person can run for years but sooner or later he has to take a stand in the place which, for better or worse, he calls home, and do what he can to change things there.

There is a certain moment in the film when the son is in the nursing home and he goes to the television and turns it off because he sees himself in the image.

There are days when I struggle with wanting to be a full-time, stay-at-home mom, and feeling guilty about that because I work.

Wasn't that the definition of home? Not where you are from, but where you are wanted

If our homes should provide anything, they should provide a sense of who we are and how we got here, a sense of connection balanced by a sense of direction and progress.

I always wanted my own fragrance because I could never find the right scent for me. At home, I would always mix bottles of my favorite fragrances to create a unique and different scent.

It's not about finding a home so much as finding yourself