Quotes About Belonging

I'm alienated from this world because its weird and I don't want to be a part of it. I want to be part of the people that are more imaginative and crazy.

You may baptize as long as you want, but the Jew remains a Jew, the Chinese a Chinese and the Negro a Negro.

I'm not losing you again. You're with me. I want you there beside me. Always.

That's how women are with me " said Paul. "They want me like mad but they don't want to belong to me.

The land wants you here. I want you here," you called. "Don't you care about that at all?

If I can't run my neighborhood you won't want me in your neighborhood.

You can come from China, Russia, any place, and you can be a New Yorker. You can say what you want to say here, really express yourself.

My relationships are based on personal reciprocity. Being a Dodger was a matter of heart, but in the end I felt they didn't want me.

What you want is for music to love you back. That's why you pay your dues. You want to feel like you belong and are part of this symbiosis, metamorphosis, whatever you want to call it.

For me, why would a Jew want to go anywhere in history ever? I'm only going to have to run.

I love you Philadelphia. I want to thank you for accepting me, and letting me be me and make this my home forever.

I get by on wishful thinking that when you come home you'll want to stay.

Try becoming a person people want to be with rather than conforming yourself to the false identity of what you conceive their ideal to be.

I prefer to stay in my country. But this doesn't mean if someone does want to leave Iran, I think they've done something wrong - the desire to leave is completely understandable.

I suppose home is, for me, more of a state of mind. It's really more of about being where I want to be with people I care about.

There have been periods where the folks who were already here suddenly say, 'Well, I don't want those folks,' even though the only people who have the right to say that are some Native Americans.

It meant that she belonged some place. She was a Brooklyn girl with a Brooklyn name and a Brooklyn accent. She didn't want to change into a bit of this and a bit of that.

[Our employees] do it not because we pay them more, but because they want to be part of something.

To have family behind you who love you more than words can say gives you so much confidence, because it allows you to go off and be who you want to be.

Well, sometimes when you say you want to be like everybody else, you're really saying that you're not.

Even a feeble-minded man wants to be like other men." --Charlie Gordan

I'm from my hood, and everybody knows me in my neighborhood, and that's cool, I can do what I want over there, but in other people's neighborhoods, I can't.

It doesn't interest me if there is one God or many gods. I want to know if you belong or feel abandoned. If you know despair or can see it in others.

America is this incredible mosaic of immigrants, so people really want to be anchored in some kind of culture as well as the one they are living in.