Quotes About Belonging

I was literally the last Jazz player left who played under Coach Sloan - and I always took that as a lot more than just some piece of trivia. That was something that truly made me feel like a part of the fabric of this franchise. And that fabric is something that has meant a lot to me, ever since.

When you come to America, you get to become an American, and Trump, who has grandparents who came to the U.S., should understand this as much as anybody.

I'm so happy to be Tiffany Trump, happy to be in the family I'm in.

For Donald Trump, Latinos are second-class citizens. We believe we are all Americans. We believe we are strong together. There is a big difference in this sense between the two parties and the candidates.

You only trust those who are absolutely like yourself, those who have signed a pledge of allegiance to this particular identity.

Filmmaking creates a sort of - trust, maybe. It has led me to a group of people I feel good with. We have something in common because of film, when otherwise we might have nothing.

I feel at home in Madrid. I have always felt important, wanted, and trusted by everyone here.

As Asian-Americans, the charge that is often lobbed against us is sort of the least original: the idea that somehow we're perpetual foreigners, that we can't be trusted, and that even my father, who was patriotic to the point that it was kind of a joke among his children, would be accused of being disloyal to America.

How genuine is my capacity for love if there is no one for me to love, to laugh with, to treat tenderly, to be trusted by?

If a young player feels comfortable in a team then they will flourish and be who they want to be. It's less about patronising them and more about trusting them.

I wanted to go somewhere I could be more part of the team and where the coach really trusts me. At Schalke it wasn't really like that.

Every community should have a superhero. And the truth is, for many of us in the Asian community, we didn't grow up with that.

People want to be in their own fashion tribes, so they want to wear the same clothes to be connected to everyone else in that tribe. But they want to be different from other tribes.

My kids want to go back to Detroit everyday, that's their home. They want to be there. But Detroit is going through something that I don't want to be a part of.

Home is memory, home is your history, home is where you work. Some people want to abandon it and become truly local. But the questions are all there.

Sharing lets us feel less isolated and puts us on a path of being connected. At the end of the day, that's what we all want.

I love my football club. I love Essendon, I've always been apart of it and I want to be part of it going forward.

Claim what is yours. You belong any where on this Earth you want to.

Everyone wants to belong, or be a part of something bigger than themselves, but it's important to follow your heart and be true to yourself in the process.

Somebody, somewhere Wants me and needs me And that's very wonderful to know.

At the end of the day, everyone wants to feel loved, appreciated and respected.

One wants to be together with one's family. That's what families are about.

And when you're young you want to fit in. Hell, I still want to fit in with certain humans, but as you get older you get a little more discriminating.

You have to encourage people not to give in to the temptation to be normal, even if it isn't easy - because when you're young, you really want to belong.