Saroo Brierley Quotes

The only people in my whole life that have ever called me Edward are the police because it's on my license.

I didn't even have a birth certificate until I was 9 years old, which meant that, according to the state of Idaho and the federal government, I just didn't exist.

I was fortunate enough to be an American citizen by birth and I have the birth certificate to prove it.

If someone accuses me of not being born here, I can go -within 10 minutes - to my filing cabinet and I can pick up my real birth certificate and I can go, 'See? Look! Here it is. Here it is.'

The only name on my birth certificate was Henley, no first name.

I mean, if someone asked for my birth certificate, I'd get my baby book and hand it out and say 'Here it is.'

A certificate of live birth is not the same thing by any stretch of the imagination as a birth certificate.

The facts are simply that my brother was born in the United States at the Kapiolani Hospital for Women and Children in 1961. His birth certificate has been authenticated by a number of sources.

In the early days of the Indian Territory, there were no such things as birth certificates. You being there was certificate enough.

A passport, as I'm sure you know, is a document that one shows to government officials whenever one reaches a border between two countries, so that the official can learn who you are, where you were born, and how you look when photographed unflatteringly.

Getting a new passport took me a stupid amount of time. I had to go back five times with different photographs because they kept saying I was smiling, which is against the rules. I was not smiling.

You know, I think there was a point in time when people didn't really understand how birth certificates were kept in the state of Hawaii, and now, I think that it's been pretty much disclosed that they used to have a long form and now they don't have a long form. Arizona used to have a long form, we now have a short form.

I technically have two last names, which is a lot of fun when you're making airline reservations.

Though I had come into the world on 16 November 1922, my official documents show that I was born two days later, on the 18th. It was thanks to this petty fraud that my family escaped from paying the fine for not having registered my birth at the proper legal time.

Yes, women should be free to cover their faces when walking down the street. But in our schools, hospitals, airports, banks and civil institutions, it is not unreasonable - nor contrary to the teachings of Islam - to expect women to show the one thing that allows the rest of us to identify them... namely, their face.

I think it's pretty clear that the Internet as a whole has not had a strong notion of identity. And identity means, 'Who am I?' Fundamentally, what Facebook has done has built a way to figure out who people are.

I still have my original social security card signed when I was 13.

My real name - my real name is Jennifer Caban.

Passport photos must have a neutral expression—that means no laughing, smiles, frowning. The mouth must be closed.

When we walked out of that hospital, we had a birth certificate with our names on it that said: 'Father one and father two, Tom Daley and Dustin Lance Black.' And we knew our son was not only ours in our hearts but also legally and protected that way.

In Mexico, they don't have birth certificates... They don't have registration cards for voters. They have one national ID. We don't have a national ID.

I have met virtually no one in the policing and security world who thinks ID cards are an essential part of what they need to do in the future.

That's my real name. That's not like a gimmick or anything, that's my government name, Tierra Whack.

Your date of birth is a security point for identity theft.

We are, after all, a nation of laws. And we live in a culture where carrying a form of identification is as normal as keeping your car keys in your pocket. When any of us walk into a grocery store and cashes a check, no one skips a beat when asked to present our driver's license.