Quotes About Belonging

I hope there is a place for me in the country landscape, but I'm not too precious about it, either.

There is nothing more precious than our country.

Before they became Americans, most white inhabitants of the 13 colonies considered themselves British. It was predictable, therefore, that they would lust after empire, because this was exactly what their counterparts on the other side of the Atlantic also did.

I prefer people to see me as an Ivorian and as a patriot.

In terms of my religious preference, if a year goes by and I don't have a Seder or I don't light the menorah, I feel a loss.

We are neurologically hardwired to seek out people like ourselves. We start forming cliques as soon as we're old enough to know what acceptance feels like. We bond together based on anything that we can - music preference, race, gender, the block that we grew up on.

Not much about California, on its own preferred terms, has encouraged its children to see themselves as connected to one another.

In my gym class, we had something called The Pit, this little alcove where we had to sit if we forgot our gym clothes. It was usually just the crippled kid, the pregnant girl, and me. It was pretty awkward, just hanging with all these freaks who didn't want to show their legs.

It is not that we have class prejudice, but only that we find comfort and ease in our own class. And normally there are plenty of people of our own class, or race, or religion to play, live, and eat with, and to marry.

In all my novels, I deal with the many problems and prejudices which exist for Black people in Britain today.

I've loved every second of playing my first season in the Premier League. I feel like I belong here, and this is the level I want to be at for the rest of my career.

NYAK is premium cognac, and I'm so happy to be a part of the family.

The idea of what forms your identity and whether you fit in as one thing or another is something that we all think about, and something that's definitely been a preoccupation of mine.

I love St. John's Prep as a school. I like the people there, it's a great school.

If you have a sense of your place in the world, that's the best preparation for anything.

We live in a society where we never prepare people to be a community.

Think about the comfortable feeling you have as you open your front door. That's but a hint of what we'll feel some day on arriving at the place our Father has lovingly and personally prepared for us in heaven. We will finally - and permanently - be 'at home' in a way that defies description.

You know you don't have to be the most popular kid in the school to have people acknowledge your presence.

Football means little without the presence of fans.

We must preserve our cultural identity.

Stories are one of the means by which a culture preserves its identity.

We would like to preserve Europe for Europeans.

Fidesz's different air and its own culture must be preserved.

Everybody deserves a piece of where they live, in some type of fashion. Music is just my way of preserving that.