Quotes about Identity
A boy is a piece of existence quite separate from all things else, and deserves separate chapters in the natural history of men.
— Henry Ward Beecher
I clearly saw the skeleton underneath all this show of personality what is left of a man and all his pride but bones?
— Jack Kerouac
Am I really a man? Have I got what it takeswhen it counts?
— John Eldredge
Christianity has basically communicated to men that the reason God put you on this Earth is to be a good boy. Mind your manners, be a nice guy. That's soul killing!
— John Eldredge
Real question is not who was this man (Jesus), but who is this man?
— John Ortberg
We have not all had the good fortune to be ladies. We have not all been generals, or poets, or statesmen; but when the toast works down to the babies, we stand on common ground.
— Mark Twain
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