Quotes About Belonging

OK, well maybe I have to get back to Judaism. In the sense that if I look at me and my forebears forever stretching back to I don't know, whenever there's no sense of place and therefore no sense of nationality.

Home is where you feel at home and are treated well.

You never get away from that thing in your hometown that it has over you. You don't outgrow where you come from.

My heritage and my culture and where I'm from mean the most to me, more than anything,.

When I was a kid, monsters made me feel that I could fit somewhere, even if it was... an imaginary place where the grotesque and the abnormal were celebrated and accepted.

You don't have to go looking for love when it's where you come from.

I have two homes, like someone who leaves their hometown and/or parents and then establishes a life elsewhere. They might say that they're going home when they return to see old friends or parents, but then they go home as well when they go to where they live now. Sarajevo is home, Chicago is home.

I feel most at home in the water. I disappear. That's where I belong.

You can have more than one home. You can carry your roots with you, and decide where they grow.

It is important to find a place where you feel trust, you feel belonging and stability.

Home is where you hang your hat.

The ache for home lives in all of us, the safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned.

Somerset is where I call home, and where I feel most myself.

Home is where you are appreciated, safe and protected, creative, and where you are loved - not where you are put in prison.

The making of an American begins at the point where he himself rejects all other ties, any other history, and himself adopts the vesture of his adopted land.

I went to the mosque one day, and it came to me, like, 'This is where I belong.'

Go where you're celebrated, not tolerated. I'm celebrated in Detroit.

Do not let where you come from define you, but never forget the values you learned from your close community.

Growing up, I knew I was different. But I didn't know what it meant to be Aboriginal. I just knew that I had a really big, extended family. I was taught nothing about who we were or where we came from.

I immediately felt welcomed, whereas in Massachusetts, I'd grown up there but I felt like such an outsider. Within a week or two of moving to Philly I felt there was something I could be a part of.

People in the South want heroes to be their own, whereas it is easier for them to accept a villain who hails from another state.

I'm absolutely delighted because I'm part of the process that has made Asians very much part of the mainstream fabric of Britain, whereas, when I first started, we were completely on the margin.

I think that all research scientists think of themselves as belonging to a grand tradition, building on work that has been worked on since the very beginning of science itself. Whereas I'm not sure writers think of themselves in the same way.

My parents and my brother and I left the Soviet Union in 1981. I was six, and Dima was sixteen, and that made all the difference. I became an American, whereas Dima remained essentially Russian.