Quotes About Belonging

I had no blood relatives till I made some.

I never felt totally 100%, patriotically English... I'd seen a lot of the world by an early age - sort of spent a lot of time traveling around Lebanon and I'd seen Babylon, and Damascus, and all sorts of places in the Middle East by the time I was ten. Then we'd return to Ruslip in West London... Done a fair bit of traveling really.

If indeed we shall never return to our birthplace; if indeed we have been abandoned by the gods; we are still answerable to the names of our beloveds.

The end of exile is the end of being.

It is a characteristic of human beings that if they haven't got a family of their own, they will invent one.

Are you tired of hoping that someone else could fill the place that was meant for Me? Isee you, all of you, and you do not have to hide anymore. Isee your sin and I see your flaws and I still desire you as My own. I am crazy about you. Iam the answer for your longing. The "more" that your heart waits for is Me.

Ya no podía reír ni llorar, mentirse ni enfrentarse a la verdad, dejarse caer completamente ni tampoco enderezarse, quedarse ni marcharse, sentirse judía ni tampoco ya alemana, vivir ni morir.

Don't forget about us. No lights are too bright to forget where you come from. Remember. Remember.

I don't have royal blood," I told her, "but we two could have been twins. It was as if we swam in the same fluids in our mother 's womb, so that some of my maleness became hers and some of her femaleness mine. That made us strange in the eyes of the world, which does not care for in-between beings. We have both taken blows because of it. She was protean, as am I. She was fierce and affectionate and smart and unpredictable. That is why I loved her . . . that is why!

I went to the Anderson,' Perez said at last. 'I expect things are different now. Then it was all cliques. We had to stay in the hostel. I came from Fair Isle and us and the Foula kids, we couldn't even get home at weekends. Then there were the people who came in by ferry every week from Whalsay and Out Skerries. The lads from Scalloway were always fighting with the Lerwick boys. It wasn't that you didn't make friends from a different group, but you knew where you belonged.

The Western world is having an identity crisis.

When I used to watch Westerns, I could admire the craft, but I never really loved them; they never spoke to me. Maybe because I'm first-generation American, I'm a woman, and I just didn't see myself reflected.

I really am part whale. I want to do a movie like 'The Incredible Mr. Limpet' and join a family of whales.

I never thought of myself as being handsome or good-looking or whatever. I always felt like an outsider.

You can call me whatever you want to call me, but I am an American. No one can take that away from me. No, no one can.

One's nativity is not of his own choosing, but whatever it may be, it is entitled to respect; and all nations have honorable place in the world's family.

I do not have any regrets whatsoever in opting to play for Nigeria and will always do my best whenever I put on the green white green colours of Nigeria.

There was no audience for my books. The Indians didn't regard me as an Indian and North Americans couldn't conceive of me of a North American writer, not being white and brought up on wheat germ. My fiction got lost.

Each employed immigrant has his or her place of work. It is only the taxi driver, forever moving on wheels, who occupies no fixed space. He represents the immigrant condition.

It always seems like coming to my second home whenever I come to Lucknow.

For decades, I have cringed whenever someone called me 'illegal,' as if I'm an insect on someone's back. I found out I didn't have the right papers - that I was here illegally - when I tried to get a driver's permit at age 16. But I am not 'illegal.' No person is.

Whenever you have the opportunity to reach out in your community and educate kids and help give them a sense of belonging, you're doing something good.

Whenever I've tried to ingratiate myself to an existing community, I tend to give too much, to become whatever it is they want me to be. It's something I do automatically - I've learnt to immediately adapt.

U.P. is where I belong to, I was born in Meerut, so whenever I come here, I'm reminded of my childhood.