Quotes About Belonging

I have never been a member of a Tea Party.

Adopted kids are such a pain - you have to teach them how to look like you.

I moved frequently because my dad was in the army, so I was always new in school. I think if you've ever done that, you know what it means to not matter in a room. I think it's a good experience for everyone to have, to feel like they're not noticed, because it teaches you to be empathetic.

I had always wanted to belong, and I had been thinking that this was going to get solved when I had money, and instead, I had no idea how I wanted to live my life. And no one teaches you what to do after you achieve financial independence. So I had to confront that.

I was born Roman, and I'll die Roman. I'll never leave this team or my city.

Milan is not just a team for me. It is part of my life.

Once people come to Australia, they join the team.

As a driver, it's very important to feel at home and feel that the team wants you. I've always felt at McLaren it was pretty much love at first sight since we started talking.

In an F1 team at the end you have your little family and I feel that Red Bull is definitely mine and my place to be at the moment.

I think that when people join clubs as simple as a sorority or a fraternity, a football team, a baseball team, it's just - you want to be in a group. You want to be around people, you want to be with people.

I'd never played on a team until high school. It gave me a sense of belonging, a focus, and helped build my confidence. I liked the feeling of accomplishment and the respect. Sports ideally teach discipline and commitment. They challenge you and build character for everything you do in life.

I wish I could go to the school where my close friends go, but I obviously can't. The good thing is, they're really good about inviting me to all the football games and all that stuff. So I end up having an adopted team spirit for a school I don't go to.

Fitting in with teammates has never been an issue for me. It's always something that came very natural.

When people do things they weren't even sure they were capable of, I think it comes back to connection. Connection with teammates. Connection with organization. Feeling like they belong in the environment. I think it's a human need - the need to feel connected.

I found the love that all my teammates had for me. I found the love that this Duke family, this Duke coaching staff, had for me. That's what sticks out to me because I know who I am today.

It's always nice to go back and play for my country. My teammates and I grew up together.

The music I like or the football teams I like or the food I eat has nothing to do with me being black.

I was this eggheady kid, the one who was consistently beaten up and picked last for the baseball teams.

I do not need a statue or a flag to know that I am Southern. I can taste it in the food, feel it in my heart, and hear it in the language of my kin.

But I don't think any dog knows home better than one thrown anway once already.

This is home and home is not something you remember, it is something you see every day and every moment.

But if she was going to live in a damn jungle, she preferred it be a damn jungle in Georgia, she always said, and never saw any reason to elaborate on that.

My name is Percy Jackson. I'm twelve years old. Until a few months ago, I was a boarding student at Yancy Academy, a private school for troubled kids in upstate New York. Am I a troubled kid? Yeah. You could say that.

We're not completely happy here because we're not supposed to be! Earth is not our final home; we were created for something much better.