Quotes about Identity
No contact with savage Indian tribes has ever daunted me more than the morning I spent with an old lady swathed in woolies who compared herself to a rotten herring encased in a block of ice.
— Claude Levi-Strauss
You have to embark on your own quest to discover why you are on this planet, what makes you get out of bed in the morning, and what you uniquely contribute to the world.
— Danny Silk
Thus, when you wake up in the morning, called by God to be a self again, if you want to know who you are, watch your feet. Because where your feet take you, that is who you are.
— Frederick Buechner
My father was a Methodist and my mother was a Baptist.
— Bishop TD Jakes
Knowledge of the self is the mother of all knowledge. So it is incumbent on me to know my self, to know it completely, to know its minutiae, its characteristics, its subtleties, and its very atoms.
— Khalil Gibran
I describe my look as a blend of mother goose, cinderella, and the local hooker!
— Dolly Parton
All that I am my mother made me.
— John Quincy Adams
If the English educated neglect, as they have done and even now continue, as some do, to be ignorant of their mother tongue, linguistic starvation will abide.
— Mahatma Gandhi
My mother always told me,"hide your face- people are looking at you". I would reply,"It does not matter; I am also looking at them.
— Malala Yousafzai
Did my infancy succeed another age of mine that dies before it? Was it that which I spent within my mother's womb?... And what before that life again, O God of my joy, was I anywhere or in any body?
— St. Augustine
Mother, you had me, but I never had you.
— John Lennon
Percival was mouse-coloured and had not been very attractive even to his mother.
— William Golding