Quotes About Belonging

Thousands of alienated young Muslims, most of them born and bred here but who regard themselves as an army within, are waiting for an opportunity to help to destroy the society that sustains them.

Often I didn't think I was cut out for the way the world is, being born into a common culture and system I would never choose for myself.

Songs don't have to be about going out on Saturday night and having a good rink-up and driving home and crashing cars. A lot of what I've done is about alienation... about where you fit in society.

Africa is our center of gravity, our cultural and spiritual mother and father, our beating heart, no matter where we live on the face of this earth.

Our heart knows what our mind has forgotten - it knows the sacred that is within all that exists, and through a depth of feeling we can once again experience this connection, this belonging.

Aboriginal people are key because they have a different sense of where we belong and how we interact with nature.

We were not placed on this earth to walk alone.

Giving connects two people, the giver and the receiver, and this connection gives birth to a new sense of belonging.

Language is a spiritual mansion in which you live and nobody has the right to evict you.

I preferred to set off and perish in search of my own kind than to live a lonely half-life of physical comfort and spiritual death on this murderous island.

I think Scotland is probably my spiritual home and I love it there very, very much.

My athleticism was really the core to social acceptance, because in those days the overwhelming number of students came from more of a public school background than I did.

It always feels good to come back here. I love New York... it's just nice to see a lot of familiar faces.

The people like the American Legion Post that gave us a chance to play. A place to play and a chance to play.

A person really doesn't become whole, until he becomes a part of something that's bigger than himself.

Whereas fanatic is usually a pejorative word, a Fan is someone who has roots somewhere.

I've been proud to be a lifelong Chicago Cub and still be with the Cubs. That's always been important to me and I think it's always been special

All sports for all people.

Most other competitions are individual achievements, but the Olympic Games is something that belongs to everybody.

He watched them with the passionate regret with which he saw them play football or go to dances: the activity itself did not interest, but the power to share it would have made him less apart.

What am I to do?' if I can answer the prior question 'Of what story or stories do I find myself a part?

Although I am a typical loner in my daily life, my awareness of belonging to the invisible community of those who strive for truth, beauty, and justice has prevented me from feelings of isolation.

If my theory of relativity is proven successful, Germany will claim me as a German and France will declare me a citizen of the world. Should my theory prove untrue, France will say that I am a German, and Germany will declare that I am a Jew.

My passionate sense of social justice and social responsibility has always contrasted oddly with my pronounced lack of need for direct contact with other human beings and human communities. I am truly a 'lone traveler' and have never belonged to my country, my home, my friends, or even my immediate family, with my whole heart; in the face of all these ties, I have never lost a sense of distance and a need for solitude…