Quotes About Belonging

Ryantown ain't yours.

Why don't you live anywhere?" "Do you have a house?" "Of course." "Is it a pure unalloyed pleasure?" "Not entirely." "So there's your answer.

Soy su hijo, soy su hijo, soy su hijo! Por eso es que me ha tratado de esta manera. ¡Soy su hijo!

Yo necesitaba desesperadamente absorber esta verdad de nuevo: estoy más allá del perdón. Soy más que un sirviente. He sido adoptado por un Padre cuyo amor es perfecto, cuya aceptación es incondicional, cuyo afecto nunca acaba y cuya generosidad no tiene límites. Un Padre que está de mi parte… para siempre.

even if I were to actually lose everything - my house, my finances, my friends, my reputation, my position - it really wouldn't matter in the end, because I would still have God's grace. I would still be the Father's adopted and beloved son. And that would be enough.

Your tribe is always bigger than you think.

She seemed to belong here, though maybe she was the sort to belong wherever she was at the time.

Frankly, you're the most homeless person--emotionally--I ever met.

This was where she belonged with Nur, right here, here in his songs. Here within the lyrics they were intimate, caught in the rythm of his words, proppelled by the substance of his dreams. These songs would be their story and these lyrics their home.

Perhaps we half and halfs should always make a choice, one nationality instead of the other, one language instead of the other. We should nourish one identity and starve the other so that it would atrophy and drop off. Then we could relax and become like everyone else, we could snuggle up to the majority and fit in.

If you live in New York, even if you're Catholic, you're Jewish

Even if you are Catholic, if you live in New York you're Jewish. If you live in Butte, Montana, you are going to be goyish even if you are Jewish.

The attempt to make man absolutely at home in this world ended in man's becoming absolutely homeless.

Acudieron de setenta y cuatro naciones diferentes. Los dispersados, los exiliados, los repudiados se congregaban en el único rincón de la Tierra donde la palabra «judío» no era un insulto.

of the river, somewhat removed from Rombaden, are some forty or fifty medium to large estates belonging to the wealthy and upper crust of the area.

rule...." "Ours not

Dein Volk ist alles" ("Your people is everything") soon followed

If there are 3 girls in a class with 11 boys those 3 girls may feel like they don't belong and no amount of preaching about gender equity is going to change that. But if the class is just girls you may get more girls to sign up and the girls will be more comfortable and will likely gain more competence.

Nature held me close and seemed to find no fault with me.

When my alarm jangled in the morning, I awoke feeling small and terrified. I couldn't find myself in my own life—there was no memory of me that I could grasp. There was no place outside of me where I belonged. So every morning I willed myself back into existence.

I don't like belonging to another person's dream

Only I do hope it's my dream, and not the Red King's! I don't like belonging to another person's dream

So I wasn't dreaming, after all," she said to herself, "unless—unless we're all part of the same dream. Only I do hope it's my dream, and not the Red King's! I don't like belonging to another person's dream," she went on in a rather complaining tone: "I've a great mind to go and wake him, and see what happens!

And for a moment, I understand that I have friends on this lonely path; that sometimes your place is not something you find, but something you have when you need it.