Quotes About Belonging

I've always known in my heart that Beats belonged with Apple.

I feel like if I don't get a film and somebody else does, then that film never belonged to me. The ones I get belong to me.

I just always wanted to be part of something where I felt like I belonged.

I moved to the States from London when I was 12 years old. My father was in a band and wanted to tour, so we moved here, but it wasn't until I moved to Williamsburg and had my son that I felt like I finally belonged.

Some people bought into the whole fame thing more than others, but I never did. I never felt I belonged; I wasn't confident.

We will live with racism for ever. But senses of self, senses of belonging, senses of us and of others? Those are up for grabs.

I always prided myself on being apart from the ruling class. I think it's always important, not just in Washington but in life, to be able to able to balance your sense of belonging with what it's like to be someone who doesn't belong.

I think there's something about having a purpose in life and a sense of belonging that is more important than money for any human being.

I don't believe in mistakes. Everything belongs, and, as the homies say, 'It's all good.'

To be at ease is better than to be at business. Nothing really belongs to us but time, which even he has who has nothing else.

Music belongs to the people. To no one else. To no one else.

What belongs to someone, belongs to someone.

One belongs to one's language as a writer.

Where I come from, music is not a business. Sharing music is a business, but music is not a business. It comes from the people and belongs to the people.

In politics, when you wake up, you can make out who belongs to which party. In cinema, you cannot make out who belongs where. Everybody looks like your friend.

'Community,' that loaded word so beloved of politicians, is simply not a reality in most people's lives. It's normal for us to be cut off from each other.

In the final analysis, we are one people, one family, one house—not just the house of black and white, but the house of the South, the house of America

The message of the civil rights movement was straightforward, and it was a message grounded in hope: We are one people; we are one family; we all live in the same house—the American house, the world house.

Tuesday, October 6, 1925, Coolidge was broad-gauged. "Whether one traces his Americanism back three centuries to the Mayflower, or three years of the steerage, is not half so important as whether his Americanism of to-day is real and genuine," Coolidge said. "No matter by what various crafts we came here, we are all now in the same boat.

Coolidge told the veterans: "I recognize the full and complete necessity of 100 percent Americanism, but 100 percent Americanism may be made up of many various elements.

Why?" I asked, "What are you looking for?" There was a short silence. And Toto softly said, "I want to see if people like me.

I asked Mercedes what sorts of people gathered on 4chan. A lot of them are bored, understimulated, overpersecuted, powerless kids, she replied. They know they can't be anything they want. So they went to the Internet. On the Internet we have power in situations where we would otherwise be powerless.

When we fail to properly civilize people, human nature rushes in. Absent a higher alternative, human nature drives us to make sense of the world on its own instinctual terms: That's tribalism.

Did they have the same worries that I had, these absurd people? Did they have the sort of feelings I would even understand? It wasn't enough to say that they came from a different walk of life. It was more extreme, more final than that: they belonged to a different genre of existence altogether. One which actually horrified me …