Quotes About Belonging

He was just a boy wearing pajamas, one slipper, and an old blue dressing gown under a stranger's jacket, and he did not belong anywhere but in his own bedroom.

And you?" said Roland. "You're only a boy. You don't belong here. Aren't you frightened?

Mr. Berger found himself consigned to the dusty ranks of the council's spinsters and bachelors, to the army of the closeted, the odd, and the sad, although he was none of these things. Well, perhaps just a little of the latter:

I was a stranger in a familiar land.

I felt about the city as I felt about the house in Scarborough : it was a place where the past was alive in the present, where a man could find a place for himself as long as he understood the fact that he was a link in the chain, for a man cut off from his past was a man adrift in the present.

What it is," Violet said when John, hands behind his back, came up to her, "is many houses, isn't it?" "Many houses," he said, smiling. "Every one for you.

His secret-agentry was over, but he had by this time gone so long in disguise indetectably as a member of his family that by slow stages he had actually become one.

the world bars strangers or makes them present their papers—but the kingdom offers them hospitality and invites them to the wedding feast.

To utter this prayer (the Lord's Prayer) is to renounce our national identity and recognize our true identity as a son or daughter of the God of peace, our beloved Father (and Mother), and a brother or sister of every human being on earth. With this prayer, we breathe in and out our dependence of God and God's Kingdom, and place our entire focus on the God of peace and God's kingdom.

Love is why I came here in the first place.

No man is an island, entire of itself every man is a piece of the continent.

No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main.

To be no part of any body, is to be nothing.

phrase no man is an island means that no one is truly self-sufficient, everyone must rely on the company and comfort of others in order to thrive.

Every dog deserves a place to live. Every dog deserves a place in your heart. Every dog deserves a place to walk. Every dog deserves a place to run. John Duncan.

Life for rent means that my life isn't really my own, I only rented it for a while, but if I don't manage to buy it, to own it, then nothing of what I think is mine is really mine.

I've always kinda been a little outcast myself, a little oddball, doin' my thing, my own way. And it's been hard for me to, to be accepted, certainly in the early years of my life.

I think the American people lose a large part of the joy of life because they do not live for generations in the same place.

New York will be my home for the rest of my life as far as I'm concerned.

If we reduce social life to the smallest possible unit we will find that there is no social life in the company of one.

Why couldn't she be part of that family? rent a room in someone else's life.

It's a strange life, isn't it? ...A Rom with no tribe. No matter how hard you look, you can never find a home. Because to us, home is not a building or a tent or a vardo... home is a family.

Inside me I'm Ghanaian, and I'm proud to be African. But of course I'm Italian. I was born in Italy. I've never been to Africa in my life, but I will go one day.

Look at your world and your life, and look at what is personal to you. If you're living in an apartment, you need to stick with a narrative that's personal to you.