Quotes About Belonging

Undeniable though it is that many Indian Muslims misguidedly consider Pakistan their haven, the immeasurably greater number who take intense pride in being Indian and who connect deeply with the country are hurt and angered at our patriotism being under scrutiny.

I am against nationalists, but I am very much in favour of patriots.

I went to see Ocean Colour Scene at Shepherds Bush and and felt part of something. They paved the way for me.

I knew nothing of American History because I didn't pay attention to American History in school. Because I did not see myself in American History in school.

What you learn growing up in a place like Buffalo is that your job isn't just your paycheck, it's your identity. It doesn't just give you dollars, it gives you dignity.

People say to me all the time, 'When did you know that you had fully become an American?' And I say, 'The day I realized I loved peanut butter.'

I was a highly sensitive kid, sort of an old soul, and I felt like a lot of people in my peer group didn't fully understand me, or I couldn't fully be myself. I just wasn't engaged in a way that was fulfilling me.

People just don't realize how much peer pressure, the desire for peer acclamation, influences them.

I very much wanted to be accepted by my peers, to be considered a serious journalist.

Marine Le Pen belongs to her generation, I belong to mine. I got into politics for Marine Le Pen and with her as party leader.

My mother is Afro-Caribbean and my father is Caucasian-American, and I was born in Pennsylvania and moved to the Cayman Islands when I was about 2. So I grew up there with my mother, and it's really all I know. I grew up there until it was time to go to college, and that's when I moved back to America.

I'm a Western Pennsylvania Democrat.

When you've lived in a country for 50 years and you pay your tax, you have a pension and insurance, you've raised a family and sent your kids to uni. To get to an age and be told you don't belong here and you have to go back to where you come from is really saddening and infuriating.

I feel like when I try to fit in, it comes across as not genuine, and that is not good. I'd rather just do me and have people say, 'Oh. That's interesting,' than try to fit in.

When people say to me, 'You make us proud,' it's heartwarming to hear that.

In the Chili Peppers I'm a part of that world in a pretty big world and that's just the way it is.

I never perceived being adopted as the glass being half-empty.

I became an American in 2006. It got me thinking about what is my America and what's my perception of America.

There's such a strong community element in country - it's like a family. So I don't want to do anything that can come off, even if I'm not intentionally doing it, as giving the perception that I'm trying to abandon that family.

Nationalism and anti-nationalism is a matter of perception. You cannot mandate who is a nationalist and what is not.

You know, as far as public perception goes, if you get seen with some people one time, everyone thinks you're in that group.

Someone from the family is always with me in England, and for me, that's the perfect life.

I think it's perfectly acceptable not to run with cliques.

I think the name perfectly encapsulates my soul, and so I get to be myself with the safety of a different name.