Quotes About Belonging

London's got less of a group identity because it's a melting pot and it's bigger. Whereas if you're from Glasgow or Newcastle or wherever, the group atmosphere is already there.

Home is where your family is. Wherever you are, it's about the people you're surrounded by, not necessarily where you lay your head.

I remember lying out in my bed and looking at the vast, quiet sky. Right up above my head, there were three stars in a row, and I remember thinking, 'Well, I'll have those three stars all my life, and wherever I am, they will be. They are my stars, and they belong to me.'

Home is wherever I hang my hat.

I often feel like an outsider wherever I go, so I'm always attracted to stories about identity and the meaning of home.

For more and more of us, home has really less to do with a piece of soil than, you could say, with a piece of soul. If somebody suddenly asks me, 'Where's your home?' I think about my sweetheart or my closest friends or the songs that travel with me wherever I happen to be.

Every Sri Lankan, and almost every visitor to Sri Lanka, carries a longing for the place in some small form - hiraeth, the Welsh call it - wherever they go and whatever their background. It binds them however much the war and politics might try to divide them.

Every time I go to Veracruz, I feel like, OK, I am back. When my feet go to the ground on the earth, I think, 'This is me, this is home, these are my roots, and now I can go and travel again to wherever you want me to go.'

I am proud of where I come from and never forget the people I grew up with. Wherever I go, La Castellane is where I want to go back to.

We were the only black family in my neighborhood for many years. Wherever we lived, we were often the only black family, and certainly the only Haitian family. But my parents were really great at providing a loving home where we could feel safe and secure.

I'm in favor of people getting in where they fit in. Wherever you feel you can make the greatest contribution, you should.

Teenagers are kinda the same wherever you find them in America.

I am very proud to be British. I'm very conscious of carrying my country with me wherever I go. I feel I need to represent it well.

I love London. Wherever I've lived, I've always had my flat here.

Almost any American can connect on some level to a family background of having come across some ocean. They say, 'My great-grandparents came from wherever... this is why we have this last name, why we do this thing at Christmas.' All the details get watered down but don't quite disappear.

Home is a relative concept. Home is very much wherever it is that your people are and where you fit in.

Being an actor is a nomadic profession, and I just try to feel at home wherever I am at that moment.

I feel like wherever I go, I will make it home.

I always try to find friends and family wherever I go.

I moved around a lot as a kid, and was always the new kid in town. I was always having to confront someone wanting to pick on you the first day at school, wherever the new place you're going, and establish that pecking order.

Britain, and my hometown, will always be with me wherever I go and whatever I do - but I prefer to live in California.

Ever since I was a kid, I was always a fan of hip hop. If you get your limelight whether your sixteen or twenty-one or wherever you're at, you get your lime when you get your lime, but if you're a part of hip hop and a child of hip hop, then you will always be a part of hip hop.

Wherever you grow up, you think of it as normal.

Family is extremely important, and home is wherever they're waiting for you. No matter where you are, if you have great support, that's all that matters.