Quotes About Belonging

I'm proud of being from Hawaii, and I'm proud of being Hawaiian, but I'm more than that, too.

I'm really about my family and really proud of being a Carter.

More than anything else it pleases me to know I've made people back home in Bihar proud of me.

I'm proud to be from Philadelphia.

Be very proud of your name and where you come from. It's so important. Say it loud and clear for everybody to hear.

My mother's proud of where she's from, and her history, and her past, and same with my dad. I have roots in Africa. Like, I am from Africa as well as from Germany, and I am very proud of that.

I love Israel, am proud of it.

I consider myself a product of Alaska. The love and the debt that I feel to my home state - you always want your hometown to be the proudest of you, and so it's heartbreaking to hear people say snarky things.

I live in the part of Bosnia-Herzegovina where we are the only Croatians, and we are the proudest in the world.

I should not have to prove my ethnicity to anyone. I know who I am.

I like to hang with the boys and I like to prove that I can be one of the boys, if not better.

I know people still have questions about me. They still have questions about Ole Miss, whether we belong. With that feeling, you keep a chip on your shoulder that you want to prove to people that we are the best.

I was fortunate enough to be an American citizen by birth and I have the birth certificate to prove it.

I didn't feel that I really fit in anywhere. So when I was young I always had to prove myself through my sporting ability.

A huge thing for me growing up was going to see my favorite bands and feeling like, 'Okay, cool, they proved themselves and did things in a special way.' That's the most important thing.

Ball culture saved my life, and many people don't understand that. But ballroom is where I found chosen and proven family.

I think it's better if you rely on the fact you belong together, instead of having to reinvent your togetherness every day. People who say right off the bat that they don't want to take risks because their relationship is going to dissolve anyway - well, you might just as well split up right away. Why wait?

it's a great thing in life to have a place you can't be moved from - too few of them

He was like a friend made on board ship, on the high seas; now we had come to his home port.

It was lonely for a day or so until one morning some man , more recently arrived than I, stopped me on the road. 'How do you get to West Egg village?' he asked helplessly. I told him. Ans as I walked on I was lonely no longer. I was a guide, a pathfinder, an original settler. He has casually conferred on me the freedom of the neighborhood.

You're not sorry to go, of course. With people like us our home is where we are not... No one person in the world is necessary to you or to me.

You're very polite, but I belong to another generation

With people like us our home is where we are not.

I've got a streak of what you'd call cheapness. I don't know where I get it but it's—oh, things like this and bright colors and gaudy vulgarity. I seem to belong here. These people could appreciate me and take me for granted, and these men would fall in love with me and admire me, whereas the clever men I meet would just analyze me and tell me I'm this because of this or that because of that.