Quotes About Belonging

The thing that made it so hard to get that call from Jill Ellis in 2015, letting me know I wouldn't be at the World Cup, was that I felt like I'd lost what I love most about putting on the U.S. kit: representation.

The first important thing is representing the country. That feeling will always be there, be it World Cup or any other tournament.

When I was younger Canada took me in. Being able to represent my country in a World Cup would be an amazing experience.

Being mixed in the South, that's a struggle that everybody deals with differently. Some people go careening to one side or the other, and some people try to walk a tightrope between the two. I grew up spending equal time with both sides of my family.

I'm proud of who I am, where I came from, what I was born into, and I would represent that till I die.

I had no blood relatives till I made some.

I wanted to acknowledge my U.S. heritage and to belong to it more closely. Having said that, I am certainly British by formation and education and readily think of London as home. I had never lived in the U.S. till 2007.

I stand before you as a writer without any ground of being out of which to write: really blown about from country to country, culture to culture till I feel - till I am - nothing. As it happens, I like it that way.

During the initial two years in Mumbai, it was lonely and awkward for me, till I made some friends in South Mumbai.

After your time passes at Ferrari, you may drive for another team, but you're always a Ferrari driver.

With my kids, they're told 75 times a day that they're loved. One thing I know is they feel loved and secure and happy and needed and necessary and a part of something.

I was never the pretty girl at school. I'm tiny and mixed-race. I grew up in a white area. I was always the loner.

All Scandinavians feel a tiny bit self conscious, of which I'm one.

Don't let the American twang fool you. I still say, 'I'm going home,' when I come to England, and I love a good old cup of PG Tips with a Jaffa Cake.

I never tire of repeating that I feel at home at Schalke.

When I moved to London at age 16, tired of the shuffle around other people's houses and ready to live on my own, I met my English brother and sister, who instantly claimed me as family.

We have to support each other's tired nerves, I know that sounds so Pollyanna, but really... Mommy groups can be amazing, but haven't you ever gone to one and felt like you are back in high school, totally on the outside of the 'cool kids' club? I totally have!

After a while, you get tired of being the official Scot and defending everything Scottish.

We are Christians by the same title as we are natives of Perigord or Germany.

No matter where I go or what title I may achieve, I will always be the son of exiles.

I was in Donetsk for eight years. I was happy there. I won six titles. I knew everyone, and I was a big part of the club.

To be honest, I don't particularly see myself as an Icelandic artist. I'm a European artist.

I know who my dad is, I've met him a few times, but I don't even call him dad. I know it sounds horrible, but I don't even see him as part of my family, to be honest. If you want the truth, it doesn't bother me because I don't know any different. I just know that me and my mum, that was my family.

I certainly wouldn't define myself as a northerner. I'm not even really sure what that means. I've lived in London for 50 years. I wasn't born here, but I have spent most of my life here. So I don't make much of it, to be honest. I'm just myself.