Who We Are Quotes - Page 13

Politics, nature, and what is happening all over the world is important to who we are and where we live.

Disconnect your identity from what you produce, and that’s a hard thing for us because we think of our significance, worth and value based on what we do instead of who we are.

The role of culture is that it's the form through which we as a society reflect on who we are, where we've been, where we hope to be.

Who we are is the part of us that is infinite, the part of us that never stops.

The lines we draw that make us who we are are potent by virtue of being non-negotiable, and even, at some level, indefensible.

We look at what we do to determine who we are.

At its fundamentally flawed core, the aim of almost any learning program is to help us become who we are not.

We must go back again and again to the Gospel of Christ crucified, so that our hearts are more deeply gripped by the reality of what He did and who we are in Him.

What we choose to embrace, to be responsive to, is the purest reflection of who we are and what we love.

People wouldn’t have become who we are today if we hadn’t coevolved with dogs.

But we don't have a right to force anyone to abandon their faith. It is one of the foundational commitments of who we are as Americans to respect diversity.

The more we demand that institutions allow us to be who we are, the more they're going to have to.

Memory is essential to who we are, and memories can be both implicit and explicit - unconscious and conscious.

Braai Day is a slap in the face of our efforts to regain who we are. And should make any self respecting South African cringe.

Our imagination is dictated by who we are. (198)

We are more than the work we perform. In fact, I'd say that our work is a mere representation of who we are underneath.

How we treat others will determine how others treat us, and how others treat us will determine who we are.

If we come from good families where we have been supported well, there is a disillusionment we have to undergo in terms of the culture's values. We have to get beyond our cultural mythology to find out who we are.

There is another component that makes us who we are. It is a fantasy comprising all of our actions and thoughts. It’s called an opinion. And we will die for our opinion

We try to do what's right, or rather what other say is right. But sometimes, when that goes against who we are...you have to choose.

St. Augustine wrote that basically it is not possible to understand what was being described in Genesis. It was not intended as a science textbook. It was intended as a description of who God was, who we are and what our relationship is supposed to be with God.

We are all of us, gods and mortals, made up of many pieces, some of them broken, some of them scarred, but none of them the total sum of who we are.

It is sometimes wise to forget who we are.

My film is in French. It's not something folkloric. It's who we are. There's this tension about immigrants coming in. Will they learn French? Will they adapt? In this film, I'm on the reverse side because Monsieur Lazhar comes from a society where French is also the second language.

I write about families. That is who we are.