A Quote by Ann McKee

Our national identity is so interwoven with football.

Ann McKee

Quote Topics

Football Identity Interwoven National National Identity Our

Quote Author

Ann McKee
American - Scientist
Born: 1953

The identity of just one thing, the "clash of civilization" view that you're a Muslim or a Hindu or a Buddhist or a Christian, I think that's such a limited way of seeing humanity, and schools have the opportunity to bring out the fact that we have hundreds of identities. We have our national identity. We have our cultural identity, linguistic identity, religious identity. Yes, cultural identity, professional identity, all kinds of ways.

Amartya Sen

Syrians have a national identity beyond the sectarian divide. Syria's national identity would be weaker and poorer if it didn't have this beautiful pluralism between Arabs, Kurds, and sects.

Burhan Ghalioun

We are undermining a generation's happiness by depriving them of national identity, religious identity, and gender identity

Dennis Prager

But the European Union does not have a concept of national identity. It was set up to abolish that idea, not to abolish German national identity because that was trying to save itself.

Roger Scruton

I believe, as a Puerto Rican, that the majority of Puerto Ricans want to be Puerto Ricans. Once we become annexed to the United States or by the United States, that we will lose our national identity. I can look at Hawaii as an example of people who lose, the Natives who lose their identity. I can look into the Native American reservations and see people who lose their national identity, their culture, their language, their land. And that's what's going to happen to Puerto Ricans here.

Oscar Lopez Rivera

Wouldn't it be great if our national news media had standards as high as the National Football League's?

Rush Limbaugh

An affection for Hong Kong and a national identity are not mutually exclusive. We can let children learn more about Hong Kong's history, culture, politics, and social development, and at the same time, we must make them have their national identity.

Carrie Lam

Our identity was bestowed upon us by God and when humanity rebelled against God, we were divorced from the source of our identity. In this vacuum, work can wrongfully become the source of our identity wreaking havoc on our lives and work. Work was never meant to carry the weight of our identity.

David Kim

Identity is a concept of our age that should be used very carefully. All types of identities, ethnic, national, religious, sexual or whatever else, can become your prison after a while. The identity that you stand up for can enslave you and close you to the rest of the world.

Murathan Mungan

Jorge Luis Borges had the soapbox and the authority to complain about this myopic understanding of the duty of Latin American writers, which sometimes forecloses their unique modernism and experience of modernization in favor of a mythic past or an artificially constructed ideal national subject. So likewise in João Gilberto Noll, readers shouldn't expect samba and Carnival and football. The Brazilian national identity is not one of his primary concerns.

Adam Morris

I'd say that my identity is really a culinary identity, so the way I relate to my national heritage is through its cuisine.

Princess Tatiana of Greece and Denmark

I'm a football fan first and foremost, but I've been given an incredible opportunity to be a football coach in the National Football League.

Rex Ryan

Throwing off despotism and tyranny is our history and part of our national identity - something in which we can take incredible pride.

Mike Crapo

It would be a sad story to get rid of religious belief, national identity, family, and even sexual identity. That's not freedom.

Viktor Orban

Really, I learned a long time ago that in the National Football League, paper doesn't mean anything. Football teams are created on the football field.