Quotes About Belonging

There is little in life so reassuring as a genuine welcome.

My purpose is to paint the life of my people as I know it.

The naturalness of life... the sense of community is, I think, a very important factor in an artist's life.

I was told all my life I was part Cherokee. Then it was Crow. The latest is Blackfoot.

You only are free when you realize you belong no place - you belong every place - no place at all. The price is high. The reward is great.

I have come home at last! This is my real country! I belong here. This is the land I have been looking for all my life, though I never knew it till now... Come further up, come further in!

Where you grew up becomes a big part of who you are for the rest of your life. You can't run away from that. Well, sometimes the running away from it is what makes you who you are.

Most of my life I was occupied with American television and American food. My ethnicity was my choice. It still is

One cannot lead a life that is truly excellent without feeling that one belongs to something greater and more permanent than oneself.

Life isn't an Island, you have to have other people in your life.

I've spent my whole life in Chicago being asked where am I from, so that I have a sense of displacement that also is very psychologically disorienting.

I've always been a black sheep. That's a hard thing to be until you find your calling in life. I was bullied a lot at school, probably because I was perceived to be different from everyone else.

I have tried my whole life to represent my Mexican roots with honor and pride.

I have the urge to still be part of the world, the universe, of life. Through music I have the feeling that I come a little closer to that.

I have Algerian, Turkish, Swedish, Spanish blood: I feel like a citizen of the world. Life and cinema don't have borders.

The desire to be part of something greater and to occupy life more fully, is also a desire to touch and be touched by the living imagination that sustains each soul and all of life.

I'm albino, my family is white, but I was really raised, and taught my important life lessons, by the black community.

My life is a suitcase. I am the traveling Mexican.

I know of no realm of life that can provide more companionship in a lonely world or greater feelings of security and purpose in chaotic times than the close ties of a family.

Great artists have no country.

Isolation is a dream killer.

The trick in life is to find out where you belong. Once you find out where you belong, you will be happy there.

I became an actor because it was the only thing I could do. I didn't have any friends, I didn't fit in. But when I started acting everything in my life shifted and I felt happy.

you are my life now. this"_he waved a hand dismissively around him at the club-"the fey, everything, it all falls into place once you accept me" -kennan