Quotes About Identity

And among the sleeping soldiers and colonists in the crypts lay one apart, a woman who had forgotten the meaning of life.

What if reality (as perceived) were simply an extension of the self? Wouldn't that color the way each individual experiences the world?

History is a guide to navigation in perilous times. History is who we are and why we are the way we are.

A nation that forgets its past can function no better than an individual with amnesia.

History is who we are and why we are the way we are.

If we don't remember where we came from, we'll go back there.

Unfortunately, some have used history curricula for the sole purpose of promoting national identity and patriotism, without any devotion to the proper study of history.

Spider-man: My gosh! There's a real human being under all that macho? Punisher: Yes, I'm human. It's my greatest weakness. But I don't let it stop me. And that's my greatest strength.

What is the point of making up a story about ourselves that we hate? Whatever story we come up with is going to be different from the one that other people have created about us anyway—you can be sure of that.

I am how I am because all this is how it is. Each a different aspect of the same reality.

Apart from concept," he confirmed, "there is no self. It is just an idea. A notion. A thing that comes and goes. A story we tell ourselves about our experience of reality that's changing the whole time, sometimes up, sometimes down.

What is the value of a label if the product inside isn't authentic?

As the shadow follows the body, as we think, so we become.

Souls cross ages like clouds cross skies, an' tho' a cloud's shape nor hue nor size don't stay the same, it's still a cloud an' so is a soul. Who can say where the cloud's blowed from or who the soul'll be 'morrow? Only Sonmi the east an' the west an' the compass an' the atlas, yay, only the atlas o' clouds.

The absence of a sociological memory is nowhere more evident than in the study of race and ethnic relations in the southwest.

Wonder if Stephen King's like us or like them..?

Think Stephen King is one of us?

His name was Rambo, and he was just some nothing kid for all anybody knew, standing by the pump of a gas station at the outskirts of Madison, Kentucky.

You have to follow your own voice. You have to be yourself when you write. In effect, you have to announce, 'This is me, this is what I stand for, this is what you get when you read me. I'm doing the best I can - buy me or not - but this is who I am as a writer.

lamented, "Too often sissy fellows have paraded themselves as representatives of Christianity's crowning work and characterization

They might even speak colloquially and unscientifically of a Jewish "gene," for example, when expressing a measure of pride at the high percentage of Jewish Nobel laureates.

David Nadelberg

The problem with all these fiercely individualistic girls was that they were all exactly the same.