Quotes About Belonging

I feel culturally Jewish because of the way that I have lived my adult life.

I'm content where I am. I know I am going to be a Cowboy for life.

I wish you would be more true to your demographic profile. Life is confusing enough.

I was raised in Argentina until I was 11 and now I go back there a lot, at least twice a year. It's a country where I feel very comfortable and it represents an important period in my life.

I make a lot of music with other desis - that's hugely important to me, but it can't be the sum total of who I am and what I do. It's not accurate; it doesn't reflect my life experience.

So it is that the life force may take possession of a man-- so that in the end he may be possessed by something greater, no longer at all belonging to himself.

Home is the sacred refuge of our life.

I feel like I've been a Yankee my whole life.

We moved up to Oregon when I was eight, and I think the radical absence of Jewish life here might have strangely made me feel more Jewish. It's a contextual thing I guess.

Your understanding of a place changes the longer you stay; you discover more, and your own life gets woven into the fabric of the community.

A man without a home can't be lost.

Akron, Ohio, is my home. It will always be remembered. Akron, Ohio, is my life.

The least a person can ask out of life is to be needed by someone.

Cleveland is the place I grew up and lived much of my adult life, so it will always be a part of my soul.

Canada is a big part of my life.

they don't share." In the alien realm "nobody's in their own world and "everybody knows everything. There are no secrets." I asked him about himself. "I'm one of them," he said, but in his human identity he imposes limits on his ability to love and share because of "my own ignorance.

I needed to stop forcing myself to fit into something I could never be a part of.

And my experience in the music scene had shown me that there were places for places in the world where misfits were welcome.

They enrolled me in a group for troubled kids. We would meet each week in an old farmhouse owned by the university and talk about our problems getting along. . . . . They didn't teach me to get along, but I did learn that there were plenty of other kids who couldn't get along any better than me. That in itself was encouraging. I realized that I was not the bottom of the barrel. Or if I was, the bottom was roomy because there were a lot of us down there.

So fuck you, Los Angeles, fuck your palm trees, and your highassed women, and your fancy streets, for I am going home, back to Colorado, back to the best damned town in the USA - Boulder, Colorado.

She made it plain that she liked Scotland much better than England. No comment.*

Goldsboro, North Carolina.

All free men, wherever they may live, are citizens of Berlin. And therefore, as a free man, I take pride in the words Ich bin ein Berliner

Hal shrugged. "It's not our bridge.