Identity Quotes - Page 26

• My parents were very Old World. They come from Brooklyn, which is the heart of the Old World. Their values in life are God and carpeting.

  Woody Allen

  Heart, Parent, Brooklyn

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• To have striven so hard, to have molded a public personality out of so amorphous an identity, to have sustained that superhuman effort only to end with every weakness disclosed and every error compounding the downfall--that was a fate of biblical proportions. Evidently the Deity would not tolerate the presumption that all can be manipulated; an object lesson of the limits of human presumption was necessary.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Biblical, Fate, Errors

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• I am I because my little dog knows me but, creatively speaking the little dog knowing that you are you and your recognising that he knows, that is what destroys creation. That is what makes school.

  Gertrude Stein

  Education, Dog, Creativity

  Gertrude Stein (1998). “Writings, 1932-1946”

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• I would introduce myself if it were not useless. The name I had last night will not be the same as the name I have tonight. For the moment, then, let me say that I am thinking of Sam Slovoda.

  Norman Mailer

  Night, Thinking, Names

  Norman Mailer (2013). “Advertisements for Myself”, p.115, Odyssey Editions

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• Without being bound to the fulfillment of promises, we would never be able to keep our identities; we would be condemned to wanderhelplessly and without direction in the darkness of each man's lonely heart, caught in its contradictions and equivocalities--a darkness which only the light shed over the public realm through the presence of others, who confirm the identity between the one who promises and the one who fulfills, can dispel.

  Hannah Arendt

  Lonely, Integrity, Heart

  Hannah Arendt (2013). “The Human Condition: Second Edition”, p.237, University of Chicago Press

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• The legacies that parents and church and teachers left to my generation of Black children were priceless but not material: a living faith reflected in daily service, the discipline of hard work and stick-to-itiveness, and a capacity to struggle in the face of adversity.

  Marian Wright Edelman

  Teacher, Children, Struggle

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• There be as many persons of a king, as there be petty constables in his kingdom. And so there are, or else he cannot be obeyed. But I never said that a king, and every one of his persons, are the same substance.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Kings, Substance, Kingdoms

  Thomas Hobbes (2010). “Leviathan, Parts I and II - Revised Edition”, p.393, Broadview Press

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• The blank space can be humbling. But I've faced it my whole professional life. It's my job. It's also my calling. Bottom line: Filling this empty space constitutes my identity.

  Twyla Tharp

  Jobs, Space, Calling

  Twyla Tharp, Mark Reiter (2003). “The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life”, Simon and Schuster

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• The primary metaphor for the Easter season is the church as the resurrected people living a resurrected spirituality. Because of Easter we are in union with Christ and are called to live in our baptismal identity in his resurrection. This essential theme of Easter cannot be communicated in a day. It takes a season.

  Robert E. Webber

  Easter, People, Church

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• Distinctly different as a child, as an adolescent, in his prime and in his old age, man considers himself as one, not because he acts, but because he knows.

  Franz Grillparzer

  Children, Knowledge, Men

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• Once you have looked at the land from atop the Kahlenberg, you will understand what I write and who I am.

  Franz Grillparzer

  Writing, Who I Am, Land

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• In 'Before and After,' I identify the sixteen strategies that we can use to make or break our habits. Some are quite familiar, such as 'Monitoring,' 'Scheduling,' and 'Convenience.' Some took me a lot of effort to identify, such as 'Thinking,' 'Identity,' and 'Clarity.'

  Gretchen Rubin

  Thinking, Effort, Use

  Gretchen Rubin (2016). “The Best of the Happiness Project Blog: Ten Years of Happiness, Good Habits, and More”, p.50, Hachette UK

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• AB=1/4((A+B)^2-(A-B)^2) is an amazing identity, and unfortunately, I have to remind my current students how to prove it.

  Ronald Graham

  Science, Students, Mathematics

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• Perhaps you have seen me. I know well, my purpose was merely that of a symbol, 'equals', 'times'... ; but what is said, for all that, was identity-less: a kind of live geometry.

  Albert Goldbarth

  Science, Purpose, Kind

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• There is enough Christianity in our country's history to make it a significant component of our heritage and identity.

  Joel Hunter

  Christian, Country, Religious

  Joel C. Hunter (2011). “New Kind of Conservative (Large Print 16pt)”, p.19, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• A person's sexuality is so much more than one word "gay." No one refers to anyone as just "hetero" because that doesn't say anything. Sexual identity is broader than a label.

  Gus Van Sant

  Gay, Say Anything, Labels

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• It is important to note that multiculturalism does not share the postmodernist stance. Its passions are political; its assumptionsempirical; its conception of identities visceral. For it, there is no doubting that history is something that happened and that those happenings have left their mark within our collective consciousness. History for multiculturalists is not a succession of dissolving texts, but a tense tangle of past actions that have reshaped the landscape, distributed the nation's wealth, established boundaries, engendered prejudices, and unleashed energies.

  Joyce Appleby

  Passion, Past, Diversity

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• When our identity expands to include everything, we find a peace with the dance of the world. The ocean of life rises and falls within us - birth and death, joy and pain, it is all ours, and our heart is full and empty, large enough to embrace it all.

  Jack Kornfield

  Pain, Ocean, Fall

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• The Trevor Project is committed to providing all young people, regardless of sexual identity, the opportunity to be heard and the encouragement to be themselves.

  James Lecesne

  Encouragement, Opportunity, People

  "Making It Better for Today’s LGBT and Questioning Youth" by James Lecesne, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 24, 2012.

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• There is a terrible blindness in the love that wants only to accommodate. It's not only to do with omissions and half-truths. It implants a lack of being in the speaker and robs the self of an identity without which it is impossible for one to grow close to another.

  Alexander Theroux

  Omission, Self, Half

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• Adultery is the vice of equivocation.
  It is not marriage but a mockery of it, a merging that mixes love and dread together like jackstraws. There is no understanding of contentment in adultery.... You belong to each other in what together you've made of a third identity that almost immediately cancels your own. There is a law in art that proves it. Two colors are proven complimentary only when forming that most desolate of all colors--neutral gray.

  Alexander Theroux

  Art, Color, Law

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• Oliver Cromwell (1599-1658) moved from a legitimate to a charismatic role, reversing the course followed by Washington. Yet therewere surface similarities in their careers. Both led military rebellions against English monarchs--Cromwell against Charles I, Washington against George III. Each took local militia--the "train bands" of Cromwell, the colonial levies of Washington--and forged professional armies on a national scale. Each infused a new ethos in his troops--a religious spirit in Cromwell's case, a post-colonial American identity in Washington's.

  Garry Wills

  Religious, Military, Army

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• Human beings are distinguished by a capacity for experience as well as by their behavior, and homosexuality is as much a matter ofemotion as of genital manipulation.... As we each examine our own sense of identity we realize how much more complex is the question of homosexuality than a mere Kinsey-like computation of orgasms.

  Dennis Altman

  Matter, Manipulation, Realizing

  Dennis Altman (1974). “Homosexual; oppression and liberation”, Lane, Allen

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• English general and singular terms, identity, quantification, and the whole bag of ontological tricks may be correlated with elements of the native language in any of various mutually incompatible ways, each compatible with all possible linguistic data, and none preferable to another save as favored by a rationalization of the native language that is simple and natural to us.

  Willard Van Orman Quine

  Simple, Data, Native Language

  Willard Van Orman Quine, Roger F. Gibson (2004). “Quintessence: Basic Readings from the Philosophy of W.V. Quine”, p.93, Harvard University Press

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• The man, or the boy, in his development is psychologically deterred from incorporating serving characteristics by an easily observable fact: there are already people around who are clearly meant to serve and they are girls and women. To perform the activities these people are doing is to risk being, and being thought of, and thinking of oneself, as a woman. This has been made a terrifying prospect and has been made to constitute a major threat to masculine identity.

  Jean Baker Miller

  Girl, Women, Boys

  Jean Baker Miller (2012). “Toward a New Psychology of Women”, p.71, Beacon Press

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