Quotes About Belonging

every man has a map in his heart of his own country and that the heart will never allow you to forget this map. (p. 18)

I am just a tiny person in Africa, but there is a place for me, and for everybody, to sit down on this earth and touch it and call it their own.

I am his Highness' dog at Kew;Pray tell me, sir, whose dog are you?

I am his Highness' dog at Kew; Pray tell me sir, whose dog are you?

Some part of me can't wait to see what life's going to come up with next! Anticipation without the usual anxiety. And underneath it all is the feeling that we both belong here, just as we are, right now.

How you see a country depends on whether you are driving through it, or live in it. How you see a country depends on whether or not you can leave it, if you have to.

Social standing does not necessarily translate to social acceptance.

Being an outsider doesn't necessarily indicate any sort of social failing. We do not view a tuba player as musically challenged if he cannot play the violin.

Conformity is a mask behind which students can hide their identity or the fact that they haven't yet figured out their identity.

L'exilé est à la fois, et non pas successivement, émigrant et immigrant. Il ne cesse de l'être, revendiquant et impliquant deux territorialités pour en dessiner une troisième, ce qui n'est pas autorisé au migrant dont la saisie institutionnelle neutralise le parcours entre départ et arrivée. (p. 107)

Were they really Aboriginal? Did they really belong to Warren Finch's ancestral country? Anthropologists, lawyers and other experts, like archeologists, sociologists and historians, were called to examine the genealogies of these people. And emergency legislation was bulldozed through parliament in the dead of night which claimed that Warren Finch was the blood relative of every Australian, which gave power to the government to decide where he was to be buried.

Am I Aboriginal, or how much of an Aboriginal am I?

They kept poking him in his bony ribs, wanting to know: Who do you reckon you are? What his name was and why he kept saying that his house had disappeared and all that. It is very hard to lose a house. Why would anyone want to do that?

Les grands artistes n'ont pas de patrie. Great artists have no country.

Great artists have no country.

I love my district, the 37th Legislative District in Washington State, where I have lived for more than 20 years.

I'm half Jewish half WASP.

I was a WASP kid going to a high school that was 99 percent Jewish and I wanted attention and I wanted to make a spectacle of myself because I couldn't stand to be ignored.

I feel more and more the time wasted that is not spent in Ireland.

I'm never going to be able to leave Mexico, really. It would be foolish of me to do it. I would be wasting such a great opportunity that the accident of life, or destiny, gave me, which is to be Mexican. If we would make 'Lord of the Rings' analogies, I think Mexico City is Middle-earth. That's where the fight of humanity is.

Northern Ireland isn't actually part of Great Britain, but we still want it to be part of 'Sofa Watch.'

When you watch 'Save Me,' you want to be there. Even if you haven't grown up on an estate like this, you want to go to that pub and meet these people.

I always watched the show thinking, 'Wouldn't it be great to be a member?', but I never thought it would happen.

Have you ever watched someone become American? Last week, at a national citizenship conference I organize, thirty immigrants from 17 countries swore an oath and became citizens of the United States. It was a stirring experience for the hundreds of people in the room.