Quotes About Belonging

A House Is Not A Home.

We all belong here equally...Just by being born onto the earth we are accepted and the earth supports us. We don't have to be especially good. We don't have to accomplish anything. We don't even have to be healthy.

There's something about sports. You can be setting fire to cats and burying them in your backyard, but as long as you're playing team sports, people think you're okay.

A community needs a soul if it is to become a true home for human beings. You, the people must git it this soul.

If you're ever lucky enough to belong somewhere, if a place takes you in and you take it into yourself, you don't desert it just because it can kill you. There are things more valuable than life.

I sometimes wonder if I would have been less sick if I had had a home.

Because my illness at this stage has no cure, I can forever own this discomfort of the body. I can always say this was all a mistake. To find a home in my body is to tell a story that doesn't exist. I am a foreigner, but in ways that go much deeper than I thought, under the epidermis and into the blood cells.

Tanpa mempelajari bahasa sendiri pun orang takkan mengenal bangsanya sendiri

Kalau orang tak tahu sejarah bangsanya sendiri –tanah airnya sendiri– gampang jadi orang asing di antara bangsa sendiri.

Kau tak kenal bangsamu sendiri.

Sekarang, kepalaku membayangkan kuburan, tempat manusia yang terakhir. Tapi kadang-kadang manusia tak mendapat tempat dalam kandungan bumi. Ya, kadang-kadang. Pelaut, prajurit di zaman perang, sering mereka tak mendapat tempat tinggal terakhir. Dalam kepalaku membayangkan, kalau ayah yang tak mendapatkan tempat itu.

Di sini tak ada rumah yang terkunci pintunya, siang ataupun malam. Di sini pintu bukanlah dibuat untuk menolak manusia, tapi menahan angin. Di sini semua orang tidur di ambin pada malam atau siang hari, termasuk para tamu yang tak pernah dipedulikan dari mana datangnya. Ia mendengar sekali lagi. Di kota setiap orang baru selalu ditetak dengan tanya: Siapa nama? Dari mana? Di sini orang tak peduli Mak Pin datang dari mana. Tak peduli Mak Pin gagu. Tak peduli sekalipun dia kelahiran neraka.

Banyak Pribumi yang mengimpi jadi Belanda, dan gadis yang lebih banyak bertampang Eropa ini lebih suka mengaku Pribumi.

Bagiku sama saja di mana saja. Di mana ada sahabat, di situlah negeriku. Tanpa sahabat, semua ini takkan tertanggungkan. Di negeri sendiri pun bila tanpa sahabat...

Menyedihkan sekiranya di antara parasiswa sebagai terpelajar puncak Pribumi, merasa tak ada sesuatu yang patut dibela pada Pribumi sebangsa sendiri.

Temuilah saudara-saudaramu yang baru datang dari Jawa, karena kalian adalah anak-anak dari ibu Jawa - Beberapa Pemuda Arafuru Yang Menemui Suyud Dkk Para Buangan di Pulau Buru

Ucapan tiada pada tempatnya bukan lahir di rumah ini, Yang Suci, hanya terbawa entah dari mana.

I live in my house as I live inside my skin: I know more beautiful, more ample, more sturdy and more picturesque skins: but it would seem to me unnatural to exchange them for mine.

My (Hebrew) name and history are As Real As The Royalty I Come From. I'm full of it, and a true Hamburger as well. My Mixed Mutt DNA includes the names: Stewart, Romanov, Grimaldi, Hassan, Kahn, Khan, Borjigin, Chakri, Nassau... and a few surprises, such as Lucas, Disney, Hyde, Hoover, Turner, Brennan, Colby, Hayden, Schlesinger, Gates, Helms,...Fisher, Ford... LOVE YOU GUYS! - From your very own: Princess, Countess...

Home is home, as the Devil said when he found himself in the Court of Session.

Third Year German was the only class where she felt vaguely human. They spent the period listening to "99 Luftballons" and trying to work out the lyrics back into English. Hielten sich fur Captain Kirk. When you found German comforting, you knew you were in trouble

A sea of adolescence streamed by, each of us in our own way trying to both fit in and stand out.

People have always imagined, or pretended to imagine, that I seek to provoke hostile attention. This is rubbish. What I want is to be accepted by other people without bevelling down my individuality to please them — because if I do that, all the attention, all the friendship, all the hospitality that I receive is really for somebody else of the same name.

I started imagining this whole different world. It was a society of musicians, a family I hoped I could belong to one day.