Quotes About Belonging

In a lot of ways, in high school, I was very much an outsider and never really felt like I fit into any particular clique or group, and so I found myself solo very often.

I spent a lot of my childhood not fitting in, in a lot of different ways.

Because I was born in Casablanca and my parents were from the south of Spain, I do not have a big central root in France. I feel French but in a few ways, not at all French.

In some ways, my most comfortable feeling has been that of being an outsider coming in, but over the years I've tired of that and I'm ready to feel at home. That's what music gives me: a feeling of absolute home.

I'm free to see things objectively because I don't consider myself American, and I don't consider myself British or Indian. I'm kind of an amalgam or mongrel of a lot of different places and experiences. In a lot of ways it's been a good thing for me. It's enabled me to do what I do on 'The Daily Show.'

I'm interested in what bonds people together. You know, what brings us together in good ways? And there's not a lot known about that.

There is a Canadian culture that is in some ways unique to Canada, but I don't think Canadian culture coincides neatly with borders.

We cannot have communion with Christ till we are in union with Him; and we cannot have communion with the Church till we are in vital union with it.

If we cannot create a beachhead, an anchor of affordability in our communities, in our urban areas, we will lose the people who actually make the community what it is.

One of the main uses of a home is to stay in it, when one is too weak and spiritless for conforming, without effort, to the ways of other houses.

What greater reassurance can the weak have than that they are like anyone else?

It's the African-American experience. You've got to wear different masks. When you're in the hood, if you stand out, you get picked on for being weak. Sometimes you have to hide your intelligence. In front of your boys, you might put on a bit of bravado, be a little bit tougher.

Due to our consumer mindset, people are prone to jump from church to church, which weakens the church overall.

With every side I've played for, I've always tried to fit in and joke with my team mates while enjoying good times with them on and off the pitch. And that's what's happened with Les Bleus.

I consider myself to be half-Brazilian and half-German on the pitch.

Just growing up in Pittsburgh and knowing different neighborhoods, having family there and just loving it, it's like no other place.

I moved to Shaker Heights from Pittsburgh, PA, just before I turned 10.

I'm a coastal person. I grew up in Long Island and lived in San Diego. I felt landlocked in Pittsburgh. Psychically, it just wasn't the place for me.

No offense to anybody from Pittsburgh, but Pittsburgh wasn't for me.

As a kid you were proud to say you were from Pittsburgh.

I am a Pittsburgh girl at heart.

I could never imagine myself living anywhere but Pittsburgh.

As Andy says, being in this band in the early 1980s made you feel like you were part of a pizza. We were always one of the band, one of Duran Duran, or one of the Taylors.

A nation is the same people living in the same place.