Quotes About Belonging

Sometimes I get the bug to live in London for a year, or something like that, and maybe I will. But New Jersey's home.

My Beijing jersey means more to me than any of them.

Every time we wear this India jersey, it is very special for us.

When I got drafted, I just wanted a jersey. Once they gave me the jerseys, like, I was just hoping that they kept me on the team.

I like Tel Aviv; I live in Tel Aviv, but our right of return is Jerusalem. We did not return after 2,000 years for Tel Aviv but for Jerusalem.

Sometimes I think that if we have to go back, then it certainly won't be to Jerusalem. Not to the Jerusalem beset with racism that we left at the height of the last Gaza war.

Jewishness is a very big part of my identity. I am a proud Jew, I would say, who doesn't practice very actively.

I've begun to think like a Jew, to feel like a Jew.

You can take a Jew out of a shtetl, but you cannot take a shtetl out of a Jew.

I am not a Hollywood Jew and I won't ever be one.

Truth be told, for a 21st Century American Jew there is something hollow in the Seder's liberation story and the commandment to feel as if you were there.

I would like every Jew to be as comfortable in his skin as I am in mine.

I'm a Jew. I think every Jew is dark in certain ways.

It's tough being a Jew.

I'm a Caucasian American Jew. These are all things that make up who I am.

I am a Jew, and I'm convinced that Israel is the homeland.

I'm a Jew. I think of myself as a Jew first and Englishman second.

I'm a cultural Jew, I was raised with it, so I'm still into it, like gefilte fish with kugel.

Increasingly I feel like a Jew, an immigrant, a Russian - anything but a normal, mainstream American.

I am very proud to be a Jew.

I'm half Jewish, half Scottish. It's hard for me to buy anything.

I am Irish as a person, but I feel Jewish as an actor.

I consider myself a Jewish writer - even if my characters frequently are not Jewish - in the same way, I guess, that I consider myself a Jewish man, even though I don't often attend shul.

I identify myself as what I am. I'm half Jewish, like Proust. I have no other way to put it.