Quotes About Belonging

My mother's side of the family is from the Bahamas, and I spent time there on and off when I was growing up. It's the place where I feel at peace.

A home from which you can be ejected at any time is no true home.

We live in a time where there's an alienation factor. There's a certain disconnection. We don't have any real sense of community anymore.

I'm Jewish. That's all. So I am in exile all the time. Wherever we go, we are in exile. Even in Israel, we are in exile.

I just try and surround myself, for the biggest proportion of time that I can, with people who make me feel normal, because constantly feeling abnormal is quite difficult.

Being here feels like I'm out of prison. This is the right place, the right time, the right team.

The first time you find yourself having a conversation about moss stitch with a group of people who aren't desperately trying to escape you ... it's like coming home.

It's so funny how my name has always been such a big deal. When I was growing up, my family was always moving. I had to meet new people all the time. And they'd laugh.

Being a part of the theater community has been important to me from the time I was a child, through my parents.

Yes, but I - you know, it's been such a long time, I'm sure that I've got cousins and uncles that I've never met before, you know, that I've left behind.

In the 70s I was in exile; every time I went back I wondered if they'd take my passport away.

But I'm a citizen of Texas and try to spend most of my time there.

You have to know what club you are playing for, or you just play for yourself. Every time I put on a Liverpool shirt, I know it is more than just a football game.

At this time let us be exceedingly mindful that bearing one another's burdens and sharing one another's suffering is integral to being members of Christ's body.

A guest of one's time and not a member of the household.

I know my own deficiencies, one of which is that I had lived away from America for such a long time. It's called expatriate

Although Omaha is my birthplace and the place I grew up, I don't see myself spending extended amounts of time there. I feel almost more comfortable and more at peace in New York.

I feel like I have one foot in New York, one foot in London and one foot in India. But it's important to me to invest time with family.

I know Im British. I havent spent much time in the U.K., but my parents are British, my family heritage is British, so if I wasnt British, what would I be? I am British.

Being an American is something I wanted to be for a very long time, probably since I saw the moon landing when I was a child.

I always felt like I was born in the wrong time period. I felt like I should've been born in the mid-to-late '40s.

I've spent lots of time in London, I studied in London, I like London. It's just not my home.

For a long time I wanted to be special and to stick out amongst the crowd. Something I yearn for now is to be one of many.

I never really fit in growing up. I got made fun of a lot of the time in high school. People never liked me, and I was always the new kid.