Quotes About Belonging

I was raised to believe that New England is the best place on the planet.

I come from a part of the world - raised in a part of the world where you're born a Democrat, baptized a Democrat.

I grew up in the church. I was raised in the church.

Hey, I was raised in the church.

I have so much appreciation for how those two cultures have created who I am. I'm a full-blooded Brazilian, with an entire extended family of Brazilians, but I was born and raised in the U.S.

I was bred as an outcast, part Negro and part Seminole, in my early years raised as an Indian.

I was never raised as the daughter with vitiligo or the granddaughter with vitiligo or the cousin with vitiligo. I was just Chantelle.

I was born in Hawaii, but I was raised in Iowa.

I'm a Brazilian - full blood, parents born and raised, and I lived there for a little bit - but I didn't grow up there.

I was born in Birmingham and raised in Birmingham.

I love L.A., but Pittsburgh just is home. This is what I know. This is where I was born and raised. This is what molded me to make me who I am.

I believe in Judaism, I was raised a Jew, I'm happy to be one - or proud to be one.

I was raised Catholic primarily by my mom's side of the family. But at 18, I found out there was an adoption in the family, and that I was of Russian Jewish descent on my mom's side. After that, I started to look more into the philosophies and culture of Judaism.

I was raised in Brooklyn, and I lived there for 59 years.

I'm raising my family in The Church, and I'm proud of that.

To rally every black sheep is my goal.

I ran away from small-town Canada to London; I ran away from my family because I didn't think I could be the person I was.

My whole family were from the East End, but they moved away when I was a child. They still cannot get their heads around the fact that I ran back to London as soon as I could, when I was 21.

At school, I always wanted to belong to a gang, and no one would have me. So I'd have make my own gang, but with everybody else's leftovers.

When I was young, running with a gang was a cool thing to do; that's how you get popular; that's how you get the girls.

A rock-and-roll group needed a name that fit criteria in three areas: It had to be great for a bowling team; it had to be great for a gang; and it had to be great for a rock-and-roll group. So we called ourselves Dion and the Belmonts.

I was brought up in south London and I started out in the world of graffiti when I was about 14 because I wanted to be part of that hooded tracksuit gang thing.

I think 98% of gang members in Los Angeles would agree that being a gang is just like being part of a community.

I didn't have my dad there and I had another mate who didn't have his father, and you kind of form your own little family and that's what gangs are, that's why you have so many gangs now because there are so many kids without fathers that they seek their own male bonding.