Quotes About Belonging

Although I'm not from London originally: I moved down here when I was 16, so it's played a part in my life. It's where I've lived for all that time.

It's a really, really hard life when you don't have a document that actually gives you a name and a face.

I lived in London for eight years and I like to say that I am two parts American and one part British because I lived there for a third of my life

Nobody understood what it was like to be black and Jewish... being different from everyone else just made me a lot stronger.

It seems like a necessary balance to life, being part of the community.

I seemed to be leading a very incongruous life from the point of view of the definition of the community I was in.

I feel very uneasy with a lot of aspects of the Russian life and the Russian people.

You can live in the same city your entire life and still be completely a foreigner when you step out, in your old age, onto the street.

I was 30 when 9/11 happened and I had lived exactly 15 years of life in America, so I was half American. I was a full-fledged New Yorker.

I consider myself British and have very happy memories of the UK. I spent the first 14 years of my life in England and never wanted to leave. When I was in Australia I went back to England a lot.

Self-esteem is a powerful force within each of us... Self-esteem is the experience that we are appropriate to life and to the requirements of life.

We must buy jewelry; it identifies us with our tribe, just as body piercing identifies those of a different tribe.

From that house there has come so much life that it ought never to die or fall into ruin... For me that house was a gateway to America.

It's like coming back to the womb. I'm coming back to my mum and it's wonderful to see her. It's the best space in the world. If it wasn't for this place I don't know what I'd have done with my life.

The fact is that you don't want to be away forever, but you want to lead a normal life.

I myself have already spent a third of my life in Germany, first in Cologne and then, since 1994, in Berlin.

A neighbor is something that belongs to the stable world of home life, the thing that lives next door to you.

My life was split by two worlds, but he kept me whole.

I feel this is a family here, so kinda regardless of whatever happens in your life, you always can come home to the Grand Ole Opry, thank God.

Everyone in life knows what it's like to be picked on and to feel like an outsider.

I had the privilege of living most of my life in a small town.

If you don't live a normal life, how do you relate to people?

You're still the one I run to, the one that I belong to, you're still the one I want for life.

You can't run away from your identity. Even if I went to another band, I'd still be Lips from the band Anvil. I've spent my entire life trying to be that, that's what I am. There's nowhere to run.