Quotes About Belonging

It was in a certain sense home – the place, that is, where one doesn't feel.

Of a sudden he felt that fraternity life was the only way to exist at college. How could he have doubted? (126)

Her decision to do so – when she had a working majority in Parliament – was not pure vanity. It was the inevitable result of the völkisch rhetoric she had adopted when she told her first Tory Party conference as leader that 'if you believe you're a citizen of the world, you're a citizen of nowhere', openly evoking the far-right (and Stalinist) trope of 'rootless cosmopolitans' who did not deserve citizenship.

They opened a place in Irishness for the diasporas that were, in many ways, the truest products of its history. It brought home the reality that had been obscured in the idea of emigration as tragedy and shame: we are a hyphenated people.

Why be a dumb dud? Do your friends shun you? Do people cross the street when they see you approaching? Do they run up the steps of strange houses, pretend they live there and force their way into the hall while you are passing by? If this is the sort of person you are, you must avail yourself today of this new service. Otherwise, you might as well be dead.

The modern hero is the outsider. His experience is rootless. He can go anywhere. He belongs nowhere. Being alien to nothing, he ends up being alienated from any type of community based on common tastes and interests. The borders of his country are the sides of his skull.

The misery he had was a longing for home; it had nothing to do with Jesus.

His home was to him home, workshop, church, as personal as the shell of a turtle and as necessary.

I think Compton is definitely a part of my, my family history - a part of me.

People still love me as a family man.

I don't believe you have to be blood to be family, so I have a lot of family members.

I love London. I'm a London fanatic. That's my city.

I was at this fancy school, and I felt out of place, so I rebelled.

My fans love me because I'm one of them.

Look, I am in the establishment because my dad, the greatest man alive was president of the United States and my brother, who I adore as well as fantastic brother was president. Fine, I'll take it. I guess I'm part of the establishment Barbara Bush is my mom. I'll take that, too.

I never want to feel too far away from people. I think that's when you get in trouble.

I enjoy where I'm from. That's me. And my family never let me get far away.

I was a farmer, a villager, and I was born to be such.

I am fascinated by that person who is trying to live authentically, but they are on the outside of society, so how do they manage in the world around them?

It's fascinating when you're from another place, but you don't speak the language.

The nature of fashion is family.

People need something or someone to fasten themselves to in order to reassure themselves that they are real.

There were times I didn't know if I even belonged in the NBA. Everyone at this level is so good - bigger, stronger, faster.

I'm Canadian! My father's Canadian.