Quotes About Belonging

I'll call nobodies and make them somebodies; I'll call the unloved and make them beloved. In the place where they yelled out, 'You're nobody!' they're calling you 'God's living children.

It was a great mistake, my being born a man, I would have been much more successful as a seagull or a fish. As it is, I will always be a stranger who never feels at home, who does not really want and is not really wanted, who can never belong, who must be a little in love with death!

I have passed through several classes in my adult life, including the precariat. But I don't believe that to be true. I have always remained, more or less, in the class into which I was born.

The romance of treason never occurred to us for the brutally simple reason that you can't betray a country you don't have," James Baldwin writes. You can't be a traitor if you've never been a citizen.

Being a guest in someone else's home and slowly beginning to suspect that you have done something wrong, something of which you were not previously aware, is how it feels to have a dawning understanding of what it means to be white in this world.

If this is the 'Green Hell' of the Amazon, then hell is where I belong," said Maia.

It is often by our bullshit that we reveal our allegiance. Our words convey a sense of belonging to a particular club. And because it is a subtle form of communication, it is harder to fake that an explicit statement of loyalty.

I used to be a mddle-of-the-road kid, but now with my freaky looks I'm definately an outsider. Hooray.

Her first name was India-she was never able to get used to it.

Epictetus, a first-century Stoic philosopher, who said, "Never, when asked one's country, answer, 'I am Athenian or Corinthian,' but 'I am a citizen of the world.

The Laws of Ownership," she said and this time her face went positively red. "I never understood before but maybe… maybe that's what this… this feeling is all about." I nodded slowly. "Corbin said you would belong to me and I would belong to you. I guess I never really got it, either." I got it now, though. Got the fact that I wanted her with me always. I wondered if she felt the same way. Or if she ever would.

Accents are not for comic relief anymore; they root the character to the place they're from.

We are a country where people of all backgrounds, all nations of origin, all languages, all religions, all races, can make a home. America was built by immigrants.

I don't belong to any religions, I really belong to God.

America is a collection of people from different races, religions, and backgrounds - that is part of what makes us great. But a common language is what brings all of those people together to form a community.

Religions prosper in large part because of the communities that they create.

I consider myself more of a cultural Jew; I'm not religious in any way.

We're not religious, but we've always done Passover and Hanukkah.

I was always in new schools and had British parents, which was not the norm, and I think there was also... I'm not particularly religious, but I was born Jewish, and I always felt like the outsider because I wasn't Christian or Catholic.

My national identity is first American. My religious identity is first Muslim.

A powerful way to sidestep America's reluctance to become postracial would be for more black Americans to become postnational.

Be yourself, you are who you are and be proud of it. And rely on your friends and family.

You want to be wanted, and you want people to rely on you.

I hate being on my own, I rely on my friends and my family and my job to keep me occupied and to make me feel comforted and wanted and needed and all that stuff.