Top 515 Identity Quotes

I don’t like the idea that in music, clothes, taste or anything, we are limited to a certain style, because we need to maintain an identity, maybe between some subculture group. Hopefully, all those walls break down, and music is just music.

Facebook is developing, and so are we. Timeline is a big step in the evolution of how we manage our identity online – and it’s going to make a huge difference to Causes. You are building a monument to yourself and the things that are important to you.

Religion and culture are two important ways in which we as humans find our identity. That’s certainly true for me.

I try to be like a forest, revitalizing and constantly growing… Kids would tease me, calling me ‘Little Bush.’ But… I thought being called Forest helped me find my identity.

It’s fascinating how much of our sense of attractiveness and feminine identity is bound up in our hair.

The challenge for corporations, if offices were to become obsolete, is twofold. How will they be able to retain their distinct cultures? And how will they be able to ensure that all employees, wherever they work from, share a united identity and vision?

Getting up and having the courage to share with people, all people, and even just being asked to sing, first of all, that’s all part of how I express my identity.

Make sure you know your identity is in Christ, so that when you get laid off from your job, or when you get a raise from your job, or when things don’t go right, you’re not up and down, up and down.

Stereotypes involving Christian identity, Christian persecution is so far back in history now that no one fears it being revived, unless you live in China, I guess.

The experience of being a mixed person is all over the place – one of my best friends is Chinese and Italian; my other best friend is Lebanese and Trinidadian. The mix of heritage, culture or identity is something that our country is built on.

If the anti-Christian agenda will say, ‘Here’s your identity, you’re an evolved amoeba who ought to just go do whatever you want and don’t let anybody tell you different,’ then they can get you to throw your faith, your character, your courage, and your liberty right out the window.

Republicans do not believe in identity politics.

Own your identity. Love who you are in the world. Love your deafness.

I go back and forth, but I never wanted to be the photographer of the gay and lesbian community. I will wave a rainbow flag proudly, but I am not a singular identity. I think a singular identity isn’t very interesting, and I’m a little bit more multifaceted as a person than that.

To have a broad range is one thing, but to still have the Simple Minds identity is quite remarkable.

Even when God chose Israel, he did not create the people of Israel as he created its human members, as natural beings. Instead, God formed the people of Israel from individual human beings already living in the natural world, calling them into a new historical identity.

I knew from an early age that people didn’t see the different sides of me. I formulated a kind of bi-cultural identity quite early, and I was always very comfortable with it, but I knew people didn’t quite see that.

Identity politics is not politics at all, since it precisely negates the political as such by re-construing political positions in ethnic terms, subsuming ‘ought’ under ‘is.’

A lot of people think that intersectionality is only about identity. But it’s also about how race and gender are structured in particular workforces.

Who, adult or child, is Michael Jackson truly close to? What and who is he trying to flee? What’s the nature of the psychic damage he has so clearly sustained? I suspect his racial identity is more a byproduct of that damage than the primal cause.

Personal identity seems like it’s just such an American archetype, from Holly Golightly re-inventing herself in ‘Breakfast At Tiffany’s’ to Jay Gatsby in ‘The Great Gatsby.’ It seems like the sort of archetypal American issue. If you’re given the freedom to be anything, or be anyone, what do you do with it?

Marks of Identity is, among other things, the expression of the process of alienation in a contemporary intellectual with respect to his own country.

The front of a cheque alone gives someone enough information to steal your identity.

In the ’60s – and right up to the present day – the identity of a member of the British Secret Services was and is, quite rightly, a state secret. To divulge it is a crime. The Services may choose to leak a name when it pleases them.

Mexican immigration poses challenges to our policies and to our identity in a way nothing else has in the past.

I’m really interested in the intersection between reputation, identity, and knowledge.

I’ve suffered from an identity crisis my entire life. It’s why I went into acting.

The word, and the concept of feminism, was a gift because it gave me a sense of identity and a way of defining how I wished to live my life.

Italy advocates the adoption of a legal instrument on cultural diversity, guaranteeing every country the protection of its own historical identity and the uniqueness of its physical and intangible cultural heritage.

I think every person has their own identity and beauty. Everyone being different is what is really beautiful. If we were all the same, it would be boring.

For me, I never ever felt the ownership or any identity with any community of disabilities. I didn’t grow up being told that I was a disabled child.

If you travel to Germany, it’s still absolutely Germany. If you travel to Sweden, it still has a Swedish identity.

Publishing is a business, and I completely understand it. But when you don’t have to depend on writing for your identity or your income, you can do whatever you want.

You have a certain identity that you present to the world on Facebook, and you have a certain identity that you present with the telephone, and they are different.

If you are trying to raise a child to be a Jew, then you have to create a sense of Jewish identity. You really weaken that sense of identity if you celebrate two religions.

With the enhancements to the security of the passport document itself that biometric technology will bring, it is time to make equivalent enhancements to the process of establishing identity before issuing passports.

Whether straight, gay, bi, trans… body image and identity can be a struggle for us all.

I have one identity, and that’s Israeli and Jewish. I don’t view myself as an American citizen.

A thing that happens to migrants is that they lose many of the traditional things which root identity, which root the self.

We cannot consume our way into personal growth. Yet, millions of us have bought into this cynical concept of faux identity.

The Philippines, it might be said, is a country in search of an identity.

In terms of ‘Beyond the Lights’ and ‘Belle,’ they’re definitely stories about identity. They’re female empowerment stories. So I’m exploring that through my work.

Everyone has an identity crisis when they are 16 or 17 years old.

You can play anyone if you’re open enough. It’s a form of possession. Each time you work on something, you allow yourself to be possessed by creating the environment for it. Then you allow the possession to happen – but not at the expense of your sanity or of your identity.

We’ve not given any attention to the people in their 50s and 60s, who need attention, education and engagement, in terms of the society and in terms of their identity as human beings.

Sports journalism is in the midst of an identity crisis so profound that we no longer know whether we’re made up of one word or two.

I was raised to respect women, and I really like them to be strong, independent, and have their own identity. My parents are still together, and I grew up with a lot of love, and I feel that kids imitate what they have at home.

One identity is as a television writer, which is very classically Southern California, but another of my personae is as a New Yorker cartoonist.

There are all sorts of ways you can take somebody’s identity or change your own, and a million things you can do with it once you have. It’s quite incredible.

I don’t know how, at an age when you’re trying to put your identity together, how you cope with the pressure of a performance space, which is what social media is.

The building’s identity resided in the ornament.

I don’t know if there is a personal identity. We all imagine that we are absolute individuals. But when we begin to look for where this individuality resides, it’s very difficult to find.

I have struggled with identity all my life. It’s not like something that just happened last week.

I didn’t necessarily intend it for myself, but it just happens with Instagram and Twitter; people come up to me and call me Emrata; they don’t call me Emily. That’s my brand, my identity.

To avoid the trap of Europe fragmenting on the economy, security, and identity, we have to return to the original promises of the European project: peace, prosperity and freedom. We should have a real, adult, democratic debate about the Europe we want.