Quotes About Belonging

You don't hide the things that you love and who you are.

I was hiding behind athletics and all my jockitude, so I didn't have to deal with being ostracized as the weird art kid.

I learned that I could definitely play at a really high level and I definitely belong at this level.

In high school, I never felt in with the in-crowd.

I felt like the big geek in high school. And I still feel like a big geek.

I was definitely not one of the cool girls in Suffern High School.

My first three years of high school, I wasn't that cool.

I felt deeply loved, highly respected by my colleagues and everybody in the world of motorsport.

I don't fit into the traditional Republican box that the wingnuts who have hijacked my party think all Republicans should.

I live in Brooklyn; I live in Clinton Hill. I love it there.

I lived in Camden, Primrose Hill and Kentish Town for 10 years.

Growing up in Beverly Hills, everyone was Jewish, and I always secretly wanted to be.

For the longest time, I was Scott Ruffalo's brother. I mean, he was the mayor of Beverly Hills. He was just so beloved there.

I am more comfortable with Tamil than Hindi.

People do not necessarily vote in their self-interest. They vote their identity. They vote their values. They vote for who they identify with. They may identify with their self-interest. That can happen. It is not that people never care about their self-interest. But they vote their identity. And if their identity fits their self-interest, they will vote for that. It is important to understand that point.

The only way to come to know where you are is to begin to make yourself at home.

I wish I had [made that song]. No, I don't That would be to take it from somebody else. But it's mine for all that.' 'What makes it yours?' 'I love it so.' 'Does loving a thing make it yours?' 'I think so, Mother -- at least more than anything else can. . . . Love makes the only myness,' said Diamond.

Love makes all safe.

Home is ever so far away in the palm of your hand, and how to get there it is of no use to tell you. But you will get there; you must get there; you have to get there. Everybody who is not at home, has to go home. You thought you were at home where I found you: if that had been your home, you could not have left it. Nobody can leave home.

Grave doubts as to whether I was in my place in the church, would keep rising and floating about, like rain-clouds within me.

You know nothing about whereness. The only way to come to know where you are is to begin to make yourself at home.

Nationalism is not to be confused with patriotism.

Is it gone for ever? I'm not certain. But I tell you it was a good world to live in. I belong to it. So do you.

Always yell with the crowd, that's what I say. It's the only way to be safe.