Quotes About Belonging

It's no wonder the Tory Party opposed identity cards, since so many of them struggle to find an identity at all.

The Negro has been here in America since 1619, a total of 344 years. He is not going anywhere else; this country is his home. He wants to do his part to help make his city, state, and nation a better place for everyone, regardless of color and race.

I grew up in South Mumbai and I am a total homebody, so I was not seen around. I guess that's the reason many believed that I wasn't Indian or can't speak Hindi.

I'm a nerd. Total geek. I never went to homecoming or prom or anything.

Israelis are the total Jews.

I literally felt like a freak, which is another aspect of the role of Sally that I relate to: total outsider.

I'm a drifter and an outsider. There's not one single environment I can totally belong to.

It is impossible to fuse totally with a culture for which you feel a measure of antagonism.

how he hated the word "homeland"; it sounded just one step shy of "fatherland"—

There's nothing better than belonging to a great group of friends and nothing worse than feeling like an outcast. Friends are important but should never become your center.

So often, in our quest to be more popular and to be part of the "in-group," we lose sight of things that are far more important…

Sports teams, people who follow sports teams, religion, churches, work - any company, I find that people just generally have a need to belong to something larger than themselves.

It was a terrible time, because Lindsey and I just couldn't understand how we could sing a beautiful song to you and nobody liked it and it was so pretty it made me cry. It was like: we don't belong here. Nobody understands us.

becoming American is less a function of birth or blood and more a function of embracing a set of ideas."14

Like Riina, my people have been cast out and ostracized from the place in which we feel we belong. It almost killed us, but as have many others in such situations, we found our own way to survive.

Memory, I must suppose, if it is neglected becomes like a box room, or a lumber room in an old house, the contents jumbled about, maybe not only from neglect but also from too much haphazard searching in them, and things to boot thrown in that don't belong there.

Because a lone person takes great comfort from her people, in the watches of the night, even the memory of them.

La razón más sencilla y, con sólo profundizar un poco, la más intrínseca en la mayoría de los casos fue el miedo. Golpear para no pertenecer al grupo de los golpeados.

human beings need three basic things in order to be content: they need to feel competent at what they do; they need to feel authentic in their lives; and they need to feel connected to others. These values are considered "intrinsic" to human happiness and far outweigh "extrinsic" values such as beauty, money and status.

When you throw trash on the ground, you apparently don't see yourself as truly belonging to the world that you're walking in.

Kao ukleti Holandezi lutamo u daljinama i usput nabasavamo na tragove svog svijeta, na nemogu?im mjestima, tamo gdje to najmanje o?ekujemo. I kamo god do?em, ja neprestano stižem ku?i.

And in fact, I am a foreigner everywhere in the world: as soon as I leave my home, I step into a void.

Whenever I'm in the company of strangers and speak in a way that reveals my Slav accent, the question follows: "Where are you from?" I always reply politely. It's very important to me that I say exactly where I'm from, and explain where that place is in case the person I'm talking to has never hears of my country ("in Europe, near Italy"). I suppose that's the need in me to feel accepted for what I am.

Men love their country, not because it is great, but because it is their own.