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Identity Quotes

It doesn't matter how adventurous you want to be, you've still got to contain your identity.

Identity You Want Matter Adventurous

For some of us, books are intrinsic to our sense of personal identity.

Identity Personal Us Sense Books

Food is culture. Food is an identity, a footprint of who you are.

Lidia Bastianich

Food Culture Identity You Who

My chief identity, to my mind, was not 'writer' but 'college dropout.'

Ta-Nehisi Coates

Identity Mind College Chief Writer

We never know who we are going to be until we are tested, but perhaps we can test ourselves without going to the extremes of war. Perhaps we can be kinder now, live with less now, reach out to others now - and build an inner reserve of a strong identity that will hold us up even when everything else falls away.

Live War Identity Strong Reach Know

There can be no self without other, no identity of group A without a group B.

Identity Self Group Without Other

Several paranoid suspicions occurred to me, the worst of which was that my whole identity was merely a patched-together set of behaviors designed to keep my parents joined to each other - the repertoire of tricks of a small but intelligent dog.

Dog Identity Parents Me Small Worst

As I look over my work, I mean every time I look over my early work, I see, yes, I could do that then and then I could do that and that... That may be the hardest thing for a writer, at least for a poet, to tell what the identity of his work is.

Work Time Identity Look Early Mean

I feel when somebody has been playing cricket for a long time, he creates a separate identity for himself.

Sachin Tendulkar

Time Identity Cricket Feel Long

Identity is as absurd and contradictory, I think - and certainly as mutable - as the human brain.

Identity Brain Think Human Brain

One of the things I regret is that too often in our society a person's whole identity is shaped by their sexuality, or by their sexual orientation. In good Catholic eyes, a person's sexual orientation does not matter.

Vincent Nichols

Good Eyes Identity Society Regret

Well, I think that part of being young is not exactly knowing why you do some of the things that you do. And it's by exploring your life or experimenting or making mistakes and learning from them hopefully that you start to forge an identity.

Stephen Chbosky

Life Learning Mistakes Identity You

The same time I'm designing my collection, I'm also designing my store. It has to have brand awareness, an identity. I'm also designing the racks and the hangers, and juggling a lot of things.

Kelly Wearstler

Time Identity Brand Awareness Same

Values can set a company apart from the competition by clarifying its identity and serving as a rallying point for employees. But coming up with strong values - and sticking to them - requires real guts.

Patrick Lencioni

Competition Identity Strong Employees

We all need a firm sense of identity.

Christopher Eccleston

Identity Need Firm Sense

In addition to exploring imaginative worlds, I believe that young people should have access to reading material that validates their life, that gives them a sense of identity - to be able to read texts that chimes with their own world, corrals thoughts, and connects with the emotional conflicts of growing up.

Theresa Breslin

Life Identity People Thoughts World

I used to be on dance team in high school; it was called drill team in Texas. And when I started doing theater sophomore year, I had to make a decision which thing I was gonna follow. It was a big shift because I sort of had all these friends on dance squad, and when I started to do theater, my whole identity shifted.

Stephanie Beatriz

Decision Dance School Identity Team

I do not deny my German identity. But I also feel Swiss. Of my eight great-grandparents, seven were born Swiss. I have been living in Switzerland for more than 50 years.

Identity Feel Born Living More Been

Becoming a vampire means completely changing your identity.

Identity Vampire Becoming Changing

When I wanted to serve my country, I was forced to hide the most basic and human aspect of my life and my identity from the people to whom I was supposed to be the closest - and with whom I had to trust my life. I also had to hide from myself.

Chelsea Manning

Life Myself Trust Identity People

For me, having a gender identity that was different from my sex assigned at birth and that wasn't seen by society felt like a constant feeling of homesickness - that unwavering ache in the pit of my stomach.

Identity Me Society Gender Sex Seen

Conversations about money, culture, power, class - it's at the center of my identity. I think it's a combination of being born to immigrant parents, growing up relatively poor, and really living in a world where formal institutions, like banks and anywhere that you had to sign a contract, was really feared and avoided at all costs.

Power Culture Money Identity Parents

My personal life, my musical life, my life as an artist - almost everything has pointed all these little arrows that make up which way I go as a person and what I feel comfortable as my identity.

Life Identity Feel My Life Artist

A poem I write is not just about me; it is about national identity, not just regional but national, the history of people in relation to other people. I reach for these outward stories to make sense of my own life, and how my story intersects with a larger public history.

Natasha Trethewey

Life History Identity People Me Own

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