Quotes About Belonging

Any player who wears the Brazilian national team shirt is happy.

I don't wanna be a Londoner! Growing up, that was hell - being one of them kids who wears Air Force 1s and that. It made me feel sick.

A true community is not just about being geographically close to someone or part of the same social web network. It's about feeling connected and responsible for what happens. Humanity is our ultimate community, and everyone plays a crucial role.

I created 'Rookie' because I read a lot of websites that I thought were cool and interesting, but they weren't for teens, and I wanted us to have something that could be ours.

Even at weddings, I'm quite often put on the children's table, even though I'm very much a full adult.

My grandparents never understood why my mother Noreen chose such exotic names for her children: Damon and me. My granny insisted on calling my brother Dermot - a good Irish name - until she died; I was just known as 'wee one.'

I have dual citizenship; it just so happens I live in America. I would like to go back to Wales. I'm obsessed with my childhood, and at least three times a week dream I am back there.

If there's a heaven upon the earth, a fellow knows it when He's been away from home a week, and then gets back again.

The Porsche was just a vehicle to get to another place. I used it to change people's perceptions of me. I had grown up really middle class. USC was filled with elitists, richies who would go skiing every weekend. So I pretended like I was part of that world - to be accepted.

Because of my Asian-ness, I couldn't be anonymous - what I said, what I ate, what I did at the weekend were startlingly different to what everyone else did. I was also a performer, quick and chameleon-like, good at accents, so that made me stand out.

Pound Ridge is about five miles from our country house. When you go every weekend for the last ten years without fail, well, that starts to feel like a home.

I didn't grow up in a house - we moved a lot, and we always lived in apartments. But we looked a lot; we went to open houses almost every weekend. I think that's why I always wanted a house.

I always say I have two hearts - one beats for Poland and the other for Germany.

Poland is my home, my roots are here. There is nowhere I would rather live.

I have found my perfect place on earth in Poland, in Luslawice, near Krakow.

The Jersey Shore is the kind of place where the policeman has a little cottage that might have been in the family for years and many other people call home.

Because Jews were kicked out of every country in Europe at one time or another, and plenty of other places as well, there isn't an ability to identify with a national heritage - you'll never hear a Jew say 'I'm German' or 'I'm Polish,' without saying something about being Jewish as well, and for good reason.

Well, I'm Czech, but Polish, Czech, no matter, it's my name.

My parents are Polish. I don't know anything about Italian-ness.

I'm just as happy to be Polish as I am to be German.

Even though I moved to Florida, I'm still Polish.

At different times my children went to Polish, British, and American schools, and they learned about 'the nation' in all of them.

I honestly believe that we are Arizonans and Americans first, not merely advocates for our respective political parties.

Most people enjoy other people. Most people are human beings first. And affiliated with political parties second.