Quotes About Belonging

whenever Gerald galloped around the bend in the road and saw his own roof rising through green branches, his heart swelled with pride as though each sight of it were the first sight.

Right here, answered Rhett and, picking the child up, drew him to his knee. You are boy enough for me, son.

She belonged to Ashley, forever and ever.

But every one belongs to every one else

True advocacy is born from culture, not technology or marketing.

I think the new technologies have become pervasive in our society, such as cellphones and the internet, and they've insidiously affected our personal sense of space and belonging.

It'd felt good to be part of an "us, " with the same thoughts, the same feelings, the same miseries.

Every time I slip into the ocean, it's like going home.

When I heard the Pixies for the first time, I connected with that band so heavily I should have been in that band - or at least in a Pixies cover band.

It is always the same with mountains. Once you have lived with them for any length of time, you belong to them. There is no escape.

In Russia I felt for the first time like a full human being. No color prejudice like in Mississippi, no color prejudice like in Washington. It was the first time I felt like a human being.

I divide my time between Columbia, Maryland, and Lagos, Nigeria.

I'm alive today, therefore I'm just as much a part of our time as everybody else. The times will just have to enlarge themselves to make room for me, won't they, and for everybody else.

I want to spend my time with people who don't look to be respected. But such good people won't want to spend their time with me.

You're always a child of your time, and you cannot step out of that.

I remember feeling for the first time going somewhere where I was part of a community where I didn't feel like an outcast. I felt like I belonged. Everyone had a guitar strapped to their back.

I was brought up in many different cultures, moving around all the time, and I find my identity in my songs. I project the identity I want to have throughout the songs that I write.

It can be scary to be everywhere else for a long time. I always feel that I'm safe at home, near my family.

I won't go into a big spiel about reincarnation, but the first time I was in the Gucci store in Chicago was the closest I've ever felt to home.

One never reaches home, but wherever friendly paths intersect the whole world looks like home for a time.

My people are Americans. My time is today.

Homesickness is nothing. Fifty percent of the people in the world are homesick all the time.

When I look out at the people and they look at me and they're smiling, then I know that I'm loved. That is the time when I have no worries, no problems.

Canada is our country. It belongs to us and we belong to it. Let us join together, in our time, and make history once again.