Quotes About Belonging

L.A. just doesn't seem real to me. Chicago does. My real friends are there. It's home.

I'm drawn to people who find themselves on the outside of things. I'm moved by that in real life.

It's always special to return to Real Madrid because I've always considered it as being home. It's where I grew up, learned my trade, and the club has played a big part in who I am today.

Real Madrid aspires to win everything, and I feel part of the family at this club.

I'll always be proud to say I played at Chelsea, at Valencia, in the youth system at Real Madrid, in the youth system at Real Oviedo, and for United.

I have always had a good relationship with Real Madrid fans, and I feel dear to them.

Real Madrid was my home for a long time and I've not forgotten it. I grew up there, I met a lot of people and I made my debut. There's part of me that will always be there, I can't deny it. To play for the first team was a dream.

I'm from New Orleans, and I have a French last name - although I have no real relationship with my last name because it's not my name. I don't know my name.

The most real thing of all, the only thing any of us wants, is to matter to somebody. To feel and share love, even on a friendship level or as deep as a romantic one. Who doesn't want that?

It didn't matter what we did or where we did it as long as we were together. We knew we'd found what most people either pursue in years of futile search or dismiss as a fantasy at the outset: the missing half of ourselves. The real thing.

I feel Scottish when with English people, and when I'm with Scottish people, I realise I'm English.

When you come from a place and an identity, you can feel constricted and have to get away. But then you realise how much a part of you it is.

You don't realise how cool your culture is until you get out of that phase of trying to fit in.

As you get older, you realise that your identity becomes more important - the environment in which you have grown is actually part of who you are just as much as your family or your school.

Never feeling really at home in any one country is always challenging. You realise that you have to lean on yourself and to own it.

As I got older, I realised that people saw me as other things - sometimes Korean, sometimes Japanese, sometimes just Asian. When my family moved to a more affluent white neighbourhood, I started to see myself as 'other', this amorphous category. I didn't even know what 'not other' was, but I knew I wasn't it; I wasn't what was normal.

I've realised how important having family is.

I always felt that I wasn't as American as Americans and then I realised when I got back to the Philippines that I was not Filipino.

There are many reasons I feel at home in the U.K., but if I were asked to pinpoint the moment I knew I'd arrived, it might well be when I realised the British shared my love of fritters.

I didn't know how to socialise with other people. I went to Harefield and it was strange at first but then I realised I was only here for one thing and that was the football. That was one of the many things that kept me grounded and kept me going.

When I moved to Dunfermline, it was the first time I realised how different I looked to everyone else who grew up around me. That is where I learned about ignorance and hate. I think, for them, they had probably never seen a black person in their life.

I am realising this now more as I grow up: that I never really felt connected to locations. In some sense, I always kind of felt a little lost in that I never had any hometown pride. While I experience a lot different places and experiences, I always felt a little detached.

I'm 23 years old. I might just be my mother's child, but in all reality, I'm everybody's child. Nobody raised me; I was raised in this society.

I came here from Romania when I was 12 years old. I had an accent. High school was tough a little bit for a few years. I wanted to fit in. I wanted to be liked. I wanted to be good-looking. I wanted to be popular. I spent a lot of time thinking, 'What are these people going to think of me?'