Quotes About Belonging

Being Indian is not blood as much as it is culture.

Growing up in the States, there's this part of me that's like, man, I'm Indian. Like, this is where I belong. And as soon as I got to India, and I had to go to the bathroom in some places, I was, like, 'Man - I am American.'

The thing about being an Indian person is that you feel most at home with your own people.

I'm a Cleveland Indian by birth.

I've got Indian looks, but there is nothing in my background.

The response that I have got over the years is the best example that the people of India love me, and I feel as much Indian as anybody.

I have to put down roots where I decide to stay. It wasn't enough for me to be an expatriate Indian in Canada. If I can't feel that I can make social, political and emotional commitments to a place, I have to find another place.

I look more Indian when I'm serious.

There's a big difference between race and culture. Because racially, I'm an Indian man. Culturally, not at all.

I've never yet managed to write a novel which didn't have an Indian central character.

I'm a pucca Indian. Bombay is my home.

I am an Indian to the core.

I feel like I want to be an Indian all my career.

Ich fand meinen Platz in seinem Leben nicht mehr. Hatte ich überhaupt einen, einen anderen als den geträumten?

Es solitario aquel o aquella que no es el número uno para nadie.

The men of the Foreign Legion bring their own worlds with them from their own places; their only common ground is intoxication.

Identity was the first step. Purpose was the second. It had to matter that you worked for T5.

Those who dismiss names as a detail have never been displaced.

Only those ideas which least belong to us can be adequately expressed in words.

he makes he feel like she's back in south London, then she catches herself, it's not as cut and dried as it was before, he could be a relative, if there's one thing she's learned in the past forty-eight hours, anyone can be a relative

I am Atalanta. I belong to this mountain, to the clan of mountain bears." "I am Meleager," he said. "I belong to Atalanta.

But these Glen Ridge kids, they were pure gold, every mother's dream, every father's pride. They were not only Glen Ridge's finest, but in their perfection, they belonged to all of us. They were Our Guys.

Leslie Faber always enjoyed belonging to organizations and institutions. The basketball team, the softball team, the church youth group and the Girl Scouts; they all gave her a sense of significance. The uniforms she wore for the sports teams and the Girl Scouts conferred an official status, an attachment that the rest of her life sometimes seemed to lack.

Although she felt bad about being placed in a program limited to retarded students, the program was more suited to her social skills and sheltered her from the uncaring acts of unkind high school kids.