Quotes About Belonging

I like getting up when everyone else does and going home when everyone else does.

When I come home, I say I'm coming home to Dublin. When I'm in Dublin, I say I'm going home to New York. I'm sort of a man of two countries.

I used to go to games events and feel like I was going home.

Home is where my parents are going to be. If my parents move to China, I am going to go to China and say, 'I'm going home.'

No matter who you are, you're gonna feel alienated by somebody.

I feel like I've made some good memories in San Antonio. I feel like I'm in a really good family in San Antonio. They understand me. I understand them.

One of my closest friends was a half-black, half-Jewish girl. Another good friend had a shaved head... but I was also friends with jocks. I was a 'floater,' I guess you could say.

Greta Gerwig always seemed like a name that was mine. My mother did a good job.

I've had a good life, and was born to and among people I've admired and loved.

I think anyplace people can be themselves is a good thing.

Group think and groups in general allow you to more fully give yourself to something other than yourself and your betterment - to feel a sense of belonging. Now is this a good thing? I don't know, but it's something that is longed for, at least by me.

Being on 'Good Times' was the first time I was around a group of people that wasn't my family.

England, through good times or bad, was the only place I wanted to be.

We belong far less to where we've come from than where we want to go.

no one is a stranger, this whole world is your home

The word longing comes from the same root as the word long in the sense of length in either time or space and also the word belong, so that in its full richness to long suggests to yearn for a long time for something that is a long way off and something that we feel we belong to and that belongs to us. The longing for home is so universal a form of longing that there is even a special word for it, which is of course homesickness

The Kingdom of God is where we belong. It is home, and whether we realize it or not, I think we are all of us homesick for it. -Originally published in The Clown in the Belfry and later in Secrets in the Dark

The grace of God means something like: Here is your life. You might never have been, but you are because the party wouldn't have been complete without you. Here is the world. Beautiful and terrible things will happen. Don't be afraid. I am with you. Nothing can ever separate us. It's for you I created the universe. I love you.

We're all, by and large, comparatively speaking, rich people and have perhaps more than one home. And yet the question is, are we really at home anywhere? Are we really at home in any of our homes? Because it seems to me that to be at home somewhere means to be at peace somewhere and I have a feeling at some deep level there can really be no peace for any of us, no real home for any of us, until there is some measure of real peace for everybody until everybody has a home.

I was in the midst of an ocean of my fellow-men, and yet a perfect stranger to every one.

Leaving the Great House, my presence became known to the colored people, some of whom were children of those I had known when a boy. They all seemed delighted to see me, and were pleased when I called over the names of many of the old servants

Christmas is not an external event at all, but a piece of one's home that one carries in one's heart.

Few are the giants of the soul who actually feel that the human race is their family circle.

The most important thing for everyone in Gringolandia is to have ambition and become 'somebody,' and frankly, I don't have the least ambition to become anybody.