Quotes About Belonging

When we root-root-root for the home team, we're rooting for our home as much as the team.

You just wanted to prove there was one safe place, just one safe place where you could love him. You have not found that place yet.

Personally, I'm a mess of conflicting impulses—I'm independent and greedy and I also want to belong and share and be a part of the whole.

To be a bird, or a flock of birds doing something together, one or many, starling or murmuration. To be a man on a hill, or all the men on all the hills, or half a man shivering in the flock of himself.

pressing against you until he fits, until he's made a place for himself inside you.

You just wanted to prove there was one safe place, just one safe place where you could love him. You have not found that place yet. You have not made that place yet. You are here. You are here. You're still right here.

I made this place for you. A place for you to love me. If this isn't the kingdom then I don't know what is.

that land's my home. That land's my deepest wish, my wildest dream, the only prayer and the only temple i'm ever gonna need.

That open country is so huge you can feel lost and abandoned in it or you can work to feel a part of it, like ya belong to it and it belongs to you. Like a part of you is rock and stone and stream and all the open sky. Ya get past lonesome then...them creatures is all my family and i'm family to them as well.

I wondered how people could live with things set in place, fixed, their places determined by the power of the recollection they contained, the memories they held. It was what made a home, I believed; the things we keep, the sum of us.

Love is unbroken country. Every step ya take deeper into it changes you. Makes you more. Changes the geography of who you are. And if yer brave enough to enter it alone and find your place in it, ya can't never be lonesome again on accounta ya come to live in everything love touches.

Ils ont refusé de me laisser être juste un hockeyeur. Pour eux, je serais toujours un indien.

Waubgeshig Rice, Kim Wheeler, Daniela Ginta, Blanca Schorcht and

If you possess enough courage to speak out what you are, you will find you are not alone.

If you lived like a proletarian long enough, among proletarians, weren't you almost certain to become a proletarian too?

Ivashkov," she repeated, her face the picture of serenity. "My name is Sydney Ivashkov.

He shrugged. "The same as any other. It's a way to make people feel better about themselves. Everyone likes feeling special. Being part of an elite group is a way to do that." "But you weren't part of it?" "No need. I already know I'm special.

She is mine, and I am hers.

You'll have your own superhero club before you know it. -Christian Ozera

My life was split by two worlds, but he kept me whole.

Whether it's simply some fierce animal joining of mates or a sublime merging of souls, she is mine, and I am hers.

I want you because... My heart needs you. I just want you, Roza. We belong together

Aren't we all alone?" I asked with a rueful smile. "Yes. I think in the end, we all are, no matter what the songs and happy stories say. I guess it's just a matter of who we choose to be alone with." "That's why I come here, you know. To be alone with other people. There's isolation in a crowd. You're hidden. Safe.

I was more convinced than ever that everyone needed someone to love—even scattered sorceresses and eyepatch-wearing self-defense instructors.