Quotes About Belonging

I'd stare up at the sky and just dream a lot. Still do. I dreamed that I didn't belong here, that I was going to travel a lot.

I used to wonder how a man of birth and spirit could endure to be wholly insignificant and obscure in a foreign country, when he might live with lustre in his own.

Let me in, immigration man, can I cross the line and pray, I can stay another day? Won't you let me in, immigration man? I won't toe your line today, I can't see it anyway.

There are places one comes home to that one has never been to.

... a man leaves much when he leaves his own country.

Travel around the world is amazing. New people. New-found family, really.

It's amazing: it's so cool being from Brampton, Ontario, and being able to travel the world and being embraced by so many countries.

Just as a tree without roots is dead, a people without history or cultural roots also becomes a dead people.

Everybody who's anybody longs to be a tree.

I think it's possible to be multi-rooted, rather like a banyan tree, without being deracinated.

Trees have roots, Jews have legs.

Is there a home, a home for me? Where the people stay until eternity? Is there a road that winds up, underneath the big green tree? Is there a home, a home for me?

People aren't trees, so it is false when they speak of roots.

But the life that no longer trust another human being and no longer forms ties to the political community is not a human life any longer.

No soul is desolate as long as there is a human being for whom it can feel trust and reverence.

People want to be part of something larger than themselves. They want to be part of something they're really proud of, that they'll fight for, sacrifice for, that they trust.

Trust me on this: no one is better off alone.

Feeling like you're respected among the people who do the same thing you do is incredible and necessary.

That's why I always question this sense. The feeling of home really requires a lot of trust. It requires you to identify with it, which I always find myself very contradictory to.

We honor the heritage of all who come here, no matter where they come from, because we trust in our country's genius for making us all Americans - one nation under God.

You have so much love in you. Trust your firends and family. They're all you have, but they're precious, the most important part of your life.

You can never go home again, but the truth is you can never leave home, so it's all right.

The truth about it is, whether we is rich or poor or something in between, this earth ain't no final restin place. So in a way, we is all homeless - just workin our way toward home.

I believe my religion is the truth, but I am not the truth and the truth doesn't belong to me I'm trying to belong to the truth.