Quotes About Belonging

My Fremen call themselves "Children of the Moon," he thought.

He realized in this instant why he felt so terrifyingly lonely. He had no group, no place in a hive of fellow-activity, nothing to shield him from personal decisions that might overwhelm him.

Humans live best when each has his own place, when each knows where he belongs in the scheme of things. Destroy the place and destroy the person. You and I, Thufir, of all those who love the Duke, are most ideally situated to destroy the other's place.

Nous avons été déracinés. C'est pour cela que nous ne sommes pas à notre aise. Et combien il est facile de tuer une plante déracinée. Surtout lorsqu'on la replante dans un milieu hostile. Sommes-nous certains que ce sol soit hostile?

Com'è che appena apro bocca tutti quanti mi dicono che sono irlandesi e perché non andiamo a bere qualcosa insieme? Essere americano non basta. Bisogna essere sempre anche qualcos'altro, irlandesi-americani, tedesco americani, sicché viene da chiedersi come sarebbero andati avanti se qualcuno non avesse inventato il trattino (110).

Hey, you know something people? I'm not black But there's a whole lots a times I wish I could say I'm not white

Yours (now I'm even losing my name - it was getting shorter and shorter all the time and is now: Yours)

What do I have in common with Jews? I don't even have anything in common with myself.

What do I have in common with the Jews? I don't even have anything in common with myself.

Whatever he may seem to us, he is yet a servant of the Law; that is, he belongs to the Law and as such is set beyond human judgment.

De que te queixas, alma abandonada? Porque razão esse voo agitado em torno da casa da vida? Porquê não olhar os longes que te pertencem em vez de lutar contra o que te é alheio? Mais vale o pombo vivo no telhado que o pardal semimorto que, na mão, se debate, crispado de terror.

En kötüsü de sahip olamad???n ÅŸeylere ait olmand?r

I stand on the end platform of the tram and am completely unsure of my footing in this world, in this town, in my family.

Usted no pertenece al castillo, no es del pueblo, usted es un don nadie

What do I have in common with Jews? I have scarcely anything in common with myself and should stand completely silent in a corner, content that I can breathe.

since I was truly a disinherited son, I naturally enough became unsure about what was nearest to me – my own body.

Those who choose to despise us find themselves in the best company.

Folgte er aber wirklich dem Rat […] so bliebe er dann trotz allem in seiner Fremde, verbittert durch die Ratschläge, und den Freunden noch ein Stück mehr entfremdet […] fände sich nicht in seinen Freunden und nicht ohne sie zurecht, litte an Beschämung, hätte jetzt wirklich keine Heimat und keine Freunde mehr; war es da nicht viel besser für ihn, er blieb in der Fremde, so wie er war?

I am, always have been, and always will be proud of my Nigerian heritage.

Human beings will be happier - not when they cure cancer or get to Mars or eliminate racial prejudice or flush Lake Erie but when they find ways to inhabit primitive communities again. That's my utopia.

My fellow Americans, we are and always will be a nation of immigrants. We were strangers once, too.

If there's one person I looked up to obsessively, it was Will Smith. There wasn't anyone who looked like me on TV in England. 'The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air' was my touchstone.

My name is William Shatner, and I am Canadian!

If you're an illegal alien in Prince William County, I'd get out.