Top 1200 National Identity Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

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

Let us not forget that the value of this great system does not lie primarily in its extent or even in its efficiency. Its worth depends on the use that is made of it... For the first time in human history we have available to us the ability to communicate simultaneously with millions of our fellowmen, to furnish entertainment, instruction, widening vision of national problems and national events. An obligation rests on us to see that it is devoted to real service and to develop the material that is transmitted into that which is really worthwhile.

We care about shared values, culture and identity.

The politics of identity, cancellation, and mob rule are not acceptable to me.

While I do not think it was so intended I have always been of the opinion that this turned out to be much the best for me. I had no national experience. What I have ever been able to do has been the result of first learning how to do it. I am not gifted with intuition. I need not only hard work but experience to be ready to solve problems. The Presidents who have gone to Washington without first having held some national office have been at great disadvantage.

The lover's fatal identity is precisely this: I am the one who waits.

I never went through a gender identity problem, but I did with my sexuality.

And I sit here without identity: faceless. My head aches.

This story of loss and regaining of identity is, I think, the framework of all literature.

This identity, this mind, this particular cast of speech, is nearly over.

Clarifying your identity helps you just talk to ladies.

We don't use the trademark to market anything. It's our identity.

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

We are multiplicities, and none of us live single-identity lives.

My identity is based around being a writer. I can't not write. It's a compulsion.

I think we all have identity crises throughout our lives.

Harmony of aim, not identity of conclusion, is the secret of sympathetic life.

I was happy being a journalist. I didn't realize losing my job, my identity went with it.

Berlin is all about volatility. Its identity is based not on stability but on change.

Identity politics is the mother's milk of the Democratic Left.

Perhaps it's impossible to wear an identity without becoming what you pretend to be.

I act because it's the one time I'm sure of my identity. There's no doubt. It's on paper.

The line is a whole, an identity, for a particular place and time.

Fighting for identity is something that is very much in my life.

The whole campaign was a tragic case of mistaken identity.

Some people have an identity. I have an alibi. I have a shadow self.

I have my own style and identity and I will always keep doing that.

A country cannot develop without a strong identity.

The firmest friendship is based on an identity of likes and dislikes.

I'm not a man who likes to define his identity too narrowly.

Sometimes I try to lose my identity, and I can't get rid of it!

Scripture says: "Blessed are those who mourn for they shall be comforted." I call on every American family and the family of America to observe a National Day of Prayer and Remembrance, honoring the memory of the thousands of victims of these brutal attacks and comforting those who lost loved ones. We will persevere through this national tragedy and personal loss. In time, we will find healing and recovery; and, in the face of all this evil, we remain strong and united, "one Nation under God."

I'm slammed with an identity that can no longer say a word; mute with responsibility.

The big story now is that President Bush is coming under attack for his service in the National Guard. The White House said, 'no no,' that they have payroll records to show that he served in the National Guard. But today, the commanding officers can't remember seeing Bush between May and October of '72. President Bush said, 'Remember me? I'm the drunk guy. Remember me?'

High national emotions are permissible when a soccer team is playing precisely because they are impermissible at most other times. There aren't, simply, many other places where you can sing your national anthem until you lose your voice without causing a riot. In the context of soccer, flag-waving nationalism - even chauvinistic, anti-foreigner, flag-waving nationalism - is acceptable in Britain.

As a global citizen, I sometimes feel like denying my identity.

There is a powerful desire by majorities to assert a religious identity for the country.

I'm a comedian who happens to be Muslim; my comedy stems on all forms of my identity.

Identity liberalism, as I understand it, is expressive rather than persuasive.

I'm right at a time when I'm strongly finding my identity inside of my work.

No one has their own identity like the Ronettes did back in the day.

Identity theft is one of the fastest-growing crimes in the nation - especially in the suburbs.

When I started my career, I was faced with a challenge of making my own identity.

Stories are one of the means by which a culture preserves its identity.

If you want to participate in life, you have to deny your identity.

Growing up, I had a bit of an identity crisis.

This isn't the Democratic party of our fathers and grandfathers. This is the party of Woodstock hippies. I was at Woodstock--I built the stage. And when everything fell apart, and people were fighting for peanut butter sandwiches, it was the National Guard who came in and saved the same people who were protesting them. So when Hillary Clinton a few years ago wanted to build a Woodstock memorial, I said it should be a statue of a National Guardsman feeding a crying hippie.

We all belong to an ancient identity. Stories are the rivers that take us there.

I must identify myself with Africa. Then I will have an identity.

The theme of Death is to Poetry what Mistaken Identity is to Drama.

My cultural identity is obviously a huge part of my design aesthetic.

With every character, you alter, you can’t be attached to your own identity.

I really do try to let the identity or voice inside come out.

Our world today is in need of peace, tolerance and brotherhood. The values of the Olympic Games can deliver these to us. May the Games be held in peace, in the true spirit of the Olympic Truce. Athletes of the 80 national Olympic committees, show us that sport unites by overcoming national, political, religious and language barriers. You can show us a world we all long for.

Fervent prayer keeps your true identity in focus.

Love is the mystery between two people, not the identity.

Taste, like identity, has value only when there are differences.

Sexuality is who you are personally attracted to... But gender identity is who you are in your soul.

The national park idea has been nurtured by each succeeding generation of Americans. Today, across our land, the National Park System represents America at its best. Each park contributes to a deeper understanding of the history of the United States and our way of life; of the natural processes which have given form to our land, and to the enrichment of the environment in which we live.

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