Quotes About Identity

Community in the American university is paradoxically a private and individual decision.

Even when I'm playing someone named Fat Amy, I'm all about confidence and attitude.

When you feel the stitches holding the illusion of yourself together begin to stretch and pop, and you can't sew fast enough to keep the stuffing in.

His ears were so littered with studs, safety pins and dangling razor blades that if he were to stand between two strong magnets his face would peel off.

When you have lost people like I lost my birth mom at a young age and you remember the whole process of losing her, you want to grab on to something that makes you whole.

Being a Southern person and a blonde, it's not a good combination. Immediately, when people meet you, they think of you as not being smart.

When you finally accept that you're a complete dork, your life gets easier. No sense in trying to be cool.

From the time they hit middle school, they start moving away from home. They are not doing anything wrong; it's just the way they are made. They are becoming independent, and they begin redefining themselves through the eyes other people who are not in their immediate family. The older they get, the more important it is to have other voices in their lies saying the same things but in a different way.

If you want to get serious about influencing the hearts of this generation, you have to think about creating an actual, visible, consistent place where they know they belong.

You were created on purpose for a purpose.

Among the gifts of serving others, then, is that we ourselves find our place of belonging.

People consider me a success because I'm a good football player and make lots of money. But if my heart's not right, if I'm not living a life pleasing to God, I'm a failure.

Some of them are okay, but the popular girls like to pick on my sister, and almost all the guys are gross. I don't know why guys are like that. Do you?

What is your name?' Mother queried.... Bear,' he said.

Can you imagine anything more tragic?' Rose asked. 'To be born a princess --native and to the manor born-- and then to forget who you are and settle for being something horrible like an--an accountant!

She couldn't picture anyone falling madly in love with such a person as Fish. What a name, Fish...Fish: think cold, slippery, detached. Benedict: think dry scholarly monk from the Dark Ages. Denniston: think English preparatory school, stolid country squire. Nothing about his name sounded the least bit romantic.

My skin's too white." she said. Says who, Snow White?" he said, touching her cheek lightly with one hand.

Bailey handed Molly the pen and she had Molly Parmelia written when he halted her with a gentle touch to her back. "Don't forget your new name." "Oh, you're right." She bit her tongue and scripted out Garner with a flourish. "How's that?" "Beautiful." But he wasn't looking at her penmanship. "So

I am convinced none of us shows the world a true face. We keep that safely tucked away.

We all march to the drum,"she murmured."However we are raised, however we are trained, it never seems to leave us. Do you think we can break free?" . . . "We can all learn,"he answered."All grow and change. That choice is ours to make.

Fidler himself was a personable young man who'd been a New Labor MP till "the sheer meaningless gab of it" had driven him to resign and spend more time with his money by becoming a TV personality.

How come you still go on about your religion even after you gave it up?'...'It would be truer to say it gave me up, or rather it directed me to another path. But I still need it to tell me who I am. What about you Sam? Perhaps you are one of the lucky ones who are so sure who they are that external help isn't necessary.

This is a quiet, frightened, insignificant old man who has been nothing all his life, who has never had recognition, his name in the newspapers. Nobody knows him, nobody quotes him, nobody seeks his advice after seventy-five years. That's a very sad thing, to be nothing. A man like this needs to be recognized, to be listened to, to be quoted just once. This is very important. It would be so hard for him to recede into the background ...

All the literature of this century is somewhat burdened by the theme of uprootedness.