Quotes About Belonging

You are what you love not who loves you" - Fall Out Boy

Somewhere to the eastward a wolf howled; lightly, questioningly. I knew the voice, for I had heard it many times before. It was George, sounding the wasteland for an echo from the missing members of his family. But for me it was a voice which spoke of the lost world which once was ours before we chose the alien role; a world which I had glimpsed and almost entered...only to be excluded, at the end, by my own self.

When asked by an anthropologist what the Indians called America before the white man came, an Indian said simply, Ours.

Besides, I could never spit in my parents' faces and suddenly declare myself a Jew, like my 'real' parents. It would upset them tremendously.

She said it was because I wasn't Jewish, but I knew the truth. She was laughing behind my back at me. I know she was. She made me unable to function. They all did. They all laughed at me.

Ma qui bisogna finirla con questo andirivieni continuo! Bisogna decidersi a stare in un posto qualunque, ma stabilmente, a casa propria, coi figli, come tutti gli altri cristiani...

Partire? Per andare dove? [...] Questi non sono tempi da lasciare il proprio paese!»

Pero yo ya no soy yo, ni mi casa es ya mi casa.

Pero yo ya no soy yo Ni mi casa es ya mi casa. But now I am no longer I, nor is my house any longer my house.

Yo he vivido cerca de otras personas y me he guardado recuerdos que no me pertenecen.

It's all about family [jake]. It was always about family. It will always be that way if I have anything to say about it.

homens sao da terra, e nao do mar

Sensación de ser dos en uno sin que nadie posea a nadie.

Y luego esa falta de montañas que para un vasco, quieras que no, es mortal.

Porque así como la libertad está siempre limitada por la libertad de los demás, así, también, la nacionalidad propia está definida y restringida por las otras nacionalidades. Yo vuelvo a ser lo que había olvidado que soy cuando el otro afirma ante mí su otredad

Pero por qué me preocupa a mí Colombia si ya no es mía, es ajena?

The revenues of Cuban state-run companies are used exclusively for the benefit of the people, to whom they belong.

The Limerick Leader reported that 'To-day there's many an O'Grady from Clare, who regard Muhammad Ali as one of their own.

We never sought exotic forms of discomfort; they were part of a package deal that came with our homeland.

Is that boy from your country?" she asked me. "Why, yes," I wanted to tell her. "In my country, which I own, this is National Lose Your Child at Disneyland Day." "No," I told her. "He's not from my country.

I was a VIP, a Very Iranian Person, and things just take longer for us.

It was only when I stopped pretending to be someone else that I found my real friends.

To all the kids who don't belong, for whatever reason. This one's for you.

I knew I was Little Tree, and I was happy that they loved me and wanted me. And so I slept, and I did not cry.