Quotes About Belonging

In Chicago, people would take me for what I was.

Yo lo recordaba todo. (...) Quizá el olvido, como una bondadosa nieve, los entumeciera y los cubriera. Pero eran parte de mí. Eran m paisaje.

and they all wanted to adopt me in some way, and, for the price of their care and influence, have me resemble them.

Unless you can be yourself, you won't stay with anyone for long.

different as the animal with the touch of human hands about him when he returns to the herd

Face it, kid: unless you can be yourself, you won't stay with anyone for long.

ache and ache to return to my proper place, which is curled up right there, sheltered and cherished

anyone get in, with the crowd right

My mind may be American but my heart is British.

Do not let me hear Of the wisdom of old men, but rather of their folly, Their fear of fear and frenzy, their fear of possession, Of belonging to another, or to others, or to God. The only wisdom we can hope to acquire Is the wisdom of humility: humility is endless.

Bin gar keine Russin, stamm' aus Litauen, echt deutsch. I am not Russian at all; I come from Lithuania, I am a real German. (Eliot's translation)

We returned to our palaces, these Kingdoms, but no longer at ease here in the old dispensation, with an alien people clutching their gods. I should be glad of another death.

What life have you if you have not life together? There is no life that is not in community, And no community not lived in praise of GOD.

Bin gar keine Russin, stamm' aus Litauen, echt deutsch

We returned to our places, these Kingdoms, But no longer at ease here, in the old dispensation, With an alien people clutching their gods. I should be glad of another death.

Bin gar keine Russin, stamm' aus Litauen, echt deutsch.

Do not let me hear Of the wisdom of old men, but rather of their folly, Their fear of fear and frenzy, their fear of possession, Of belonging to another, or to others, or to God.

It is only by unremitting effort that we can persist in being individuals in a society, instead of merely members of a disciplined crowd. Yet we remain members of the crowd, even when we succeed in being individuals.

We were just kids using each other not to feel out of place.

There's sense, he told himself. You build something and then you stay there. That's the way it's meant to be. Not this running here, running there, never see your blood-family or your home roofs for a year at a time.

Barrick could only stand and watch them go, alone with the tribe of incomprehensible strangers who lived now in his blood and his thoughts.

Returning to a city that one has known and loved fills you with a delicious sense of warmth.

Alan, you seem to think we won't like you unless you do things just like everyone else. Have you ever thought we might like you because you're different?

Daine: Master Stefan?...D'you ever want to run with the herd? To just--be a horse? Do what the herd does Stefan: Course I do,..Don't everybody? Daine: What keeps you from doing it? Stefan: He rubbed his strawlike hair. I'm a man. I can't be runnin' with the herd, now can I?