How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers names.
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I know exactly where I've come from, I know exactly who my mum and dad are.
We can't really know ourselves because we have not created ourselves. But we can know computers, we can know cars, because anything that we made, we can understand.
Our relatives form the natural setting of our childhood. We understand ourselves best and are best understood by others through the persons who came nearest to us in our earliest years.
As an adopted person, once you find out about that 'other' side of yourself, it's almost like you find out who you really are.
Our names are an integral part of the faces we show to the world. If we're judged first on outward appearances, we're assessed next on our names.
My name is more important than myself.
I can't believe that people actually know my first and last name. I think it's really, really, gosh-darn neat.
To know God's name is to know God.
I was named after my mother's maiden name.
I'm convinced that if we don't define ourselves, other people will do it for us, and inaccurately.
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