Quotes About Belonging

One foot remained rooted in our native soil while with our other foot we dug into American soil to anchor ourselves and weather the storm.

You are now bilingual, bicultural, and binational. You are not less. You are more.

Beloved ones of God, you may belong to any race, cast, creed, or nation, still you are all impartially beloved by God. You may be a believer or an unbeliever in the supreme Being, but He cares not. His mercy and grace flow through all His powers, without distinction of friend or foe.

My dad's white, my mom's black, and I've struggled with being mixed race.

Is he one of us, or strictly NOCD? (Which, in case you don't know is shorthand for 'Not our class, dear'.)

But it was that core group of popular girls who moved in a pack, like wolves, and loved to pick on anyone weaker than them who made it quite clear that I did not belong.

I realised that everyone present resented the loss of the Hall as much as my father had done. It represented the passing of an old way of life, of the security of knowing one's place. I found it very touching.

The second error is the assumption that business or the work environment is the only tribal affiliation people have. By sheer proximity, the workplace tribe may seem to dwarf all the others, but anyone who works at home will find they actually belong to four or five major tribes—starting with the family and extending outward to the neighborhood, the garden club, library volunteers, church, and the like.

They're using a hundred-year-old system to choose their people while we respect a time-honored, hundred-thousand-year-old method of admitting members to the tribe. Cavemen and fellows in medieval artisan guilds worked no differently. They all based decisions on a newcomer's acceptance by an established group.

Yo soy Ricardo y soy Silva y soy Romero, soy yo y soy mi padre y soy mi madre, ni más ni menos que esos tres,

I no longer live in Chicago. Not a day goes by when I do not wish I were there.

To be free means always leaving...or returning to a place where leaves never fall.

Because if you don't have someone to run out of town once in a while, how are you going to know you yourself belong there?

He is not drowning His sheep when He washeth them, nor killing them when He is shearing them. But by this He showeth that they are His own: and the new-shorn sheep do most visibly bear His name or mark; when it is almost worn out and scarce discernible on them that have the longest fleece.

The universal church of Christ must consist of individual churches guided by their own overseers, and every Christian must be a member of one of these churches (except those who are away on business or travel or are in other similar cases of necessity). Though a minister is an officer in the universal church, yet in a special manner he is the overseer of that particular church committed to his charge.

They showed him in a thousand ways they wanted to make him part of their club, but ... what was their club for? That was half the problem: they were trying to be so nice. Teddy Kennedy sent a shrink up to Wilmington, for the boys ... Kennedys knew about loss.

But it is my happiness to be half Welsh, and that the better half.

There are few of us who do not believe that there is something special about the place in which we were born.

we generally find that the closer we stick to the rules of our society, the more accepted we become.

The universe was a cosmos, not a chaos; man was as rightfully a part of that cosmos as were the day and night.

I envy the happiness of others... I envy the sense of belonging... I seem always to be remaking myself.

Give your family greater depth, greater permanence, greater individuality, and give your kids a bigger identity and a bigger sense of inclusion and belonging. This is how you give them real ownership and equity in their own family!

Whether we find it appealing or not is another question, but personally I like being fourth cousin to a mushroom and having a bonobo as my closest living relative. It makes me feel a part of the world.

Be grateful that your righteous life molds you so that you don't fit where you don't belong