Quotes About Belonging

I don't have a permanent place where I live. I'm in Atlanta about six or seven months out of the year. I gave up on my place in New York. I don't have a place in L.A., but sometimes when I go there for the hiatus, I stay in temporary housing. It's all over the place, and I don't know where I live!

Because I didn't have brothers, I was always interested in the kids down the street that had four brothers in their family, so I became one of them - but it was not my family. I've always been attracted to temporary families. They tend to be lost characters.

I've always been attracted to temporary families.

Into the company of loveit all returns.

People divorced from community, occupation, and association are first and foremost among the supporters of extremism.

again, but he missed his flight out. I don't have to ask him why he missed his plane. I know why. He's scared to go home. He doesn't feel like he belongs there anymore. He belongs here. He has a job here. What's he going to do at home, without a leg?

Hamilton thrust his hands into his pockets. "Home

You realize you are like 99.9 percent of the rest of the world, just a cog in the wheel trying to make some sense of where you belong in the incomprehensible grand design of it all. And you realize that people you trust are going to disappoint you, friends will come and go, and those you love will die. Sloane

You realize you are like 99.9 percent of the rest of the world, just a cog in the wheel trying to make some sense of where you belong in the incomprehensible grand design of it all. And you realize that people you trust are going to disappoint you, friends will come and go, and those you love will die.

The trouble with me is, I belong to a vanishing race. I'm one of the intellectuals.

The land was ours before we were the land's.She was our land more than a hundred yearsBefore we were her people.

If society fits you comfortably enough, you call it freedom.

Don't join too many gangs. Join few if any.Join the United States and join the family—But not much in between unless a college.

Earth's the right place for love. I don't know where it's likely to go better.

You can be a rank insider as well as a rank outsider.

He had an odd double impression of being exactly where he belonged, and where he'd never belonged, of intense familiarity and of separateness.

Would I call myself English?' he mused aloud. 'No, I'd probably say British.

they said, you won't be alone, you have something you've built, and all right, it might not be a family, but there are still people who care about you waiting in London

Now it's your land. But it's important, at least to me,that you remember that it's not just your land. There is a history. Now you're part of it. Good night. And off they go.

He walked home, completely at peace. He knew now he would go on doing the things he was doing -- going to work, buying up land he didn't understand, seeing Sylvan Glass for reasons he couldn't help. But he also knew it would all be fine, whatever happened. He knew it was the right thing to do. He was in the place he was meant to be. He was home, finally, at the happy and complete end of his long and troubled road. He was home.

Each man must seek for himself the people who hold the essential beauty, and each man must eventually say to himself as I do, 'these are my people and all that I have I owe to them.

This is our company—it's not theirs—it's ours.

For we are His creation—created

Neanderthals are human," said Mary. "We're congeners; we all belong to the genus Homo. Homo habilis, Homo erectus, Homo antecessor—if you believe that's a legitimate species—Homo heidelbergensis, Homo neanderthalensis, Homo sapiens. We're all humans." "I concede the point," said Krieger, with a nod. "What should we call ourselves to distinguish us from them?" "Homo sapiens sapiens," said Mary.