Quotes About Belonging

There was something very special, but it wasn't inside Josie. It was inside those who loved her.

Ein Mensch kann irgendwo arbeiten und seine Steuern zahlen, aber am Ende will er dorthin zurück, wo er aufwachsen ist

I suppose they have a point though,' he said. 'I don't belong here. This is a meeting for lifted kids.

What this all amounted to was that as I was growing up, long before I'd ever thought to create fictional worlds in prose, I was busily constructing in my mind a richly detailed place called 'Japan' – a place to which I in some way belonged, and from which I drew a certain sense of my identity and my confidence.

And I could see the weariness in the boy AF's walk, and wondered what it might be like to have found a home and yet to know that your child didn't want you.

We both have no home to go back to... so we can go anywhere at all.

You guys are weird, Tori said. Simon sat on the crate beside me. That's right. We are totally weird and completely uncool. Your popularity is plummeting just by being near us.

Our door closes, and I am home with my guy and my dog. There's no one I need to pretend for anymore.

And Sam? Well, she's not even human, so she doesn't count." "Excuse me?" Sam said. "Face it, you're not one of those bendo-things. You're a robot. A cyborg. Probably an evil one, programmed to murder us all in our sleep." Corey snickered. "Yeah?" Sam lifted a fist to Hayley. "You want to try that one again, blondie?" Hayley looked at Daniel and me. "I rest my case.

What about me?" Corey said. "What's my superpower?" Silence fell. "Oh, come on. I'm good at a lot of stuff. Right?" More silence. "You're cute," Hayley said. "Well, cute enough." "Fun to be around," I offered. "So I'm…a clown?

Do you know what that word meant? The one she called me?" She shook her head. "No idea. I don't even know if it's Navajo. She may have lived with them, but she's white. The language is nearly impossible for an outsider to learn." "Calling me a witch, too." I shook my head. "At least give me a chance to earn it first.

I'm not good at the friends thing. I'm the human equivalent of one of those baby birds that fall out of a nest and then some nice person picks the baby bird up and puts it back. Except that now the baby bird smells all wrong. I think I smell wrong.

A girl from Pittsburgh was a good thing, like an anchor. Every homesick traveler should have one.

But now he realized that, as a Jew, you could go anywhere in the world and always find someone to treat you like family.

They had paid her the compliment of coming to her door without an invitation, knowing they would be welcomed. They belonged to her, and she to them. They were, she realized, her family.

Ya no estaba seguro de que fuera su hogar.

In dog philosophy it was always better to go somewhere than to be left behind

He could survive anywhere but he belonged nowhere.

This is the problem of having an empire. Riffraff from all over the world think they're part of it." The

Obama said: "It's the answer spoken by young and old, rich and poor, Democrat and Republican, black, white, Hispanic, Asian, Native American, gay, straight, disabled and not disabled—Americans who sent a message to the world that we have never been just a collection of individuals, or a collection of red states and blue states: we are, and always will be, the United States of America.

You're either on the bus or off the bus.

I've heard that theory of the Therapeutic Community enough times to repeat it forwards and backwards - how a guy has to learn to get along in a group before he'll be able to function in a normal society; how the group can help the guy by showing him where he's out of place; how society is what decides who's sane and who isn't, so you got to measure up.

Am I this? Are these mine? These people? These insane people?

I think that the only thing that can bring us into a place of fullness is being out in the land with other. Then we remember where the source of our power lies.