identity Quotes

The real Malala is gone somewhere, and I can't find her.

I think, because I started Virgin when I was a teenager, it has become a part of me, like my family, and I am motivated by ambition for it, almost as if it were a child.

People really, really hate their religion being criticized. It's as though you've said they had an ugly face; they seem to identify personally with it.

We admit that we are like apes, but we seldom realise that we are apes.

People like to trace their ancestry.

I would like to find a way in which people in Saudi Arabia could learn that they can be something other than a Muslim. Some people may not realize this. Of course, there is the problem that you can get in trouble or get stoned.

I do disapprove very strongly of labelling children, especially young children, as something like 'Catholic children' or 'Protestant children' or 'Islamic children.'

I didn't know children were expected to have literary heroes, but I certainly had one, and I even identified with him at one time: Doctor Dolittle, whom I now half identify with the Charles Darwin of Beagle days.

I'm a cultural Christian in the same way many of my friends call themselves cultural Jews or cultural Muslims.

We have to find our own purposes in life, which are not derived directly from our scientific history.