National Identities Quotes

#1. Museums should no longer concern themselves with history on a grand scale, the sagas of kings and heroes, or the forging of national identities; they should focus instead on the lives and belongings of ordinary people, just as modern novels do.

Orhan Pamuk

#2. When we attach ourselves to national identities, then we enter into a cycle of conflict. I didn't choose where I was born or who to be or what people would call me.

Ashraf Barhom

#3. Nations which don't find their national identities will be preyed upon by other nations.

Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

#4. They were completely alone on the long stretch of country road and there was no one else to share the moment with them.

S.A. Tawks

#5. 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

#6. Being a woman is hard work.

Maya Angelou

#7. But the first lie in the series is the one you make with the greatest trepidation and the heaviest heart.

Michael Chabon

#8. This is not only a possible breach of national security; it is a potential violation of law. Under the Intelligence Identities Protection Act of 1982, it is a crime for anyone who has access to classified information to disclose intentionally information identifying a covert agent.

David Corn

#9. Agape love is ... profound concern for the well-being of another, without any desire to control that other, to be thanked by that other, or to enjoy the process.

Madeleine L'Engle

#10. Just for today, allow yourself to embrace all that you are every moment. Know that you are a vessel of light. Allow yourself to release all doubts about your ability, the mistakes of the past, the fear of the future.

Iyanla Vanzant

#11. The proper artistic response to digital technology is to
embrace it as a new window on everything thats eternally
human, and to use it with passion, wisdom, fearlessness and joy

Ralph Lombreglia

#12. I think globalization actually maintains and fosters various elements of national and cultural identities. I don't think everything is being homogenized. If anything, your food, your culture, and your ethnicity might become part of the globalized world, and thus absorbed by other countries.

Nouriel Roubini

#13. The first duty of government is to see that people have food, fuel, and clothes. The second, that they have means of moral and intellectual education.

John Ruskin

#14. The movies I made early on may not have been great, but they were all commercially successful.

Christina Ricci

#15. Be like an eagle; never let storms incapacitate you, soar higher instead.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#16. What a life! All that money and all I could eat was bread and water.

Robin S. Sharma

#17. Laboratory experiments, field observations and atmospheric modeling calculations have now established that chemical reactions occurring on PSC particles play a central role in polar ozone depletion.

Mario J. Molina

#18. Individual identities and national destines were shaped by the tripod of history, geography, and philosophy.

Patrick Mendis