Quotes about Identity

Every time you read an interview with a supermodel, they're always like, 'Oh, I was a such nerd.' I resent that a little bit. I was in the A/V club. I used to eat my lunch in a closet.

The only place I am recognized all the time is in L.A. and otherwise, it's only about once a day. I feel pretty anonymous.

Well, everybody does it that way, Huck. Tom, I am not everybody.

Being made merely in the image of God but not otherwise resembling him enough to be mistaken by anybody but a very near sighted person.

You don't know about me without you have read a book by the name of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer; but that ain't no matter.

But how should I know whether they were boys or girls?" "Goodness sakes, mars Clay, don't de Good Book say? 'Sides, don't it call 'em de HE-brew chil'en? If dey was gals wouldn't dey be de SHE-brew chil'en? Some people dat kin read don't 'pear to take no notice when dey do read.

Well, everybody does that way, Huck." "Tom, it don't make no difference. I ain't everybody, and I can't stand it. It's awful to be tied up so.

A surgeon in charge of my surgery rotation said that he knew who I was but that he was going to treat me as if I was normal. I sincerely thanked him and told him I would try to act that way.

A man who have not discovered something he will die for, is not fit to live.

I am what I am because of who we all are.

In the days ahead we must not consider it unpatriotic to raise certain basic questions about our national character.

Don't allow anybody to make you feel that you're nobody.