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Quotes About Belonging

It's funny, each time you come back to a tournament you start to feel more and more welcome. It gets familiar. That was one of the biggest things that's helped me.
~ Alex de Minaur
This family at Barbour, they've made me feel very welcome.
~ Sam Heughan
When I check in at the Encore, they're like, 'Welcome back, sir.' I'm back home, it's like my second home.
~ Lil Jon
Moving to India was challenging being a foreigner. I don't have any family here. I didn't have anyone to guide me. But I never felt for a second that I am not welcome here.
~ Jacqueline Fernandez
Before my grandpa built his own church, we went to the neighboring town, and it was a white community. You know, up north, mostly middle European people and Indians, Chippewa Indians. We were welcome to that church, but once we got in, they didn't know what to do with us.
~ James Earl Jones
I'm not from a milieu where high-register language or philosophical ideas were welcome.
~ David Mitchell
Once you've got through immigration, one is always made to feel very welcome in America, once they've let you in. It's a great place to be.
~ Geoff Dyer
You can have your country and be pleased to welcome others to it. You can have your country and still enjoy living elsewhere.
~ Howard Jacobson
When a person finally has the courage to say, 'This is who I am,' and society is not there to welcome them with open arms, it is so tragic.
~ Sarah McBride
In the normal world, the residents of Scream Street would not be welcome - they would be seen as freaks and ghouls, so it wouldn't be OK for them to be there. Scream Street is a haven for them; it's their own little place where they can be safe.
~ Debra Stephenson
It's not hard to figure out when you're not welcome.
~ Noelle Stevenson
Any team member, any community member wants and needs to know they count, that they're welcome, and that they're important.
~ Christina Tosi
All are welcome in sport.
~ Didier Deschamps
I feel like I am very welcome at TIFF and I think it's because I'm Canadian and I've been there a bunch of times.
~ Emily Hampshire
I'm enjoying myself at Celtic, I really like it here. I think it's a great club with great team-mates who have made me feel welcome.
~ Oliver Burke
A gay bar is absolutely a sanctuary and a safe house. It's the place where you feel welcome.
~ Bob the Drag Queen
We're ready to be a Boston that doesn't push people out, but welcomes all who call our city home.
~ Michelle Wu
The world of fine dining can be frightening, if it's not what you grew up in. I think when the doors are just thrown open, and you're given the confidence to step into that world without any barriers at all, and you're made to feel very welcome in it, that you belong, then it's no longer as frightening.
~ Monica Galetti
I was born in the Eighties, and at that time the idea of having a mixed-race child wasn't welcome. Then I was also an unusual mix nobody was used to seeing. So people weren't very accepting of me in the beginning, but later that changed.
~ Masaba Gupta
There is nothing more important for us in Maine than to welcome immigrants and help them not only become part of our community but for us to become part of their communities.
~ Sara Gideon
I want to say a very sincere thank you for this welcome home - it is a wonderful welcome home. It is the place to where I return and where I will always return because it is of Galway that I am.
~ Michael D. Higgins
They welcomed me like I have been a Raven my whole life. It meant a lot to me. I knew what I could bring to the team, on and off the field.
~ Eric Weddle
The bluegrass community... can be very strict. I didn't know if I'd be welcomed into the bluegrass community or not, but I think they judge you very fairly... I felt really welcome.
~ Steve Martin
Atlanta is a city that welcomed me from the first day.
~ Al Horford