Quotes About Belonging

way that was comfortable. Her house had been

but there was some—well, "eagerness" was too strong a word—but some desire to bathe and dress and leave the house, as though another place waited where she belonged.

William is the only person I ever felt safe with. He is the only home I ever had.

believing that in the presence of this person we are safe.

You belong to society, you give to society.

He thought of all the people in the world who felt they'd been saved by a city. He was one of them.

My job is to help you get into the world, but you do not belong to me.

to own things is in fact to own myself. Property makes me a whole and complete human being.

The point of this book is that being Scottish is more than just a matter of nationality or place of origin or clan or even culture. It is also a state of mind, a way of viewing the world and our place in it.

Het is verstandig bang te zijn voor elke groep waartoe je niet behoort.

Cliques are groups, groups are great, great are cliques of people.

Without alienation, there can be no politics.

Every miserable fool who has nothing at all of which he can be proud, adopts as a last resource pride in the nation to which he belongs; he is ready and happy to defend all its faults and follies tooth and nail, thus reimbursing himself for his own inferiority.

Gracias a usted ya no puedo creer en las certidumbres de los que tienen una casa, una familia, unos amigos.

No faltan en otras naciones, don Hermes... Lo que pasa es que éstos duelen más porque son nuestros.

Triste España —comenta, desolado—. Basta alejarse unas leguas de cualquier ciudad para encontrarse entre bárbaros. —No faltan en otras naciones, don Hermes... Lo que pasa es que éstos duelen más porque son nuestros.

This is where I belong. This is what I have always dreamt of.

But the places we come from don't leave us as easily as we leave them.

family is any group of people who know each other well and love each other anyway!

He felt the room's walls solid around him. This house, his wife, his kids: that was what defined him. He sought no purchase on the world beyond these things.

family is all the wealth you have with you.

Fidel, in a speech, had told the people, "We are all Afro-Cubans, from the very lightest to the very darkest.

The tolerated Assyrians were those Assyrians who have accepted their unexpected guests to become the permanent residency of their homeland and yet they are not even the guest of another homeland?

You are loved more than you've ever know