Quotes About Belonging

I'd hope to reach any kid who feels apart from the group - those who seem to be outsiders, who feel different. Kids who want to reach their parents often don't know how to do so.

I came into the world a Jew, and although I did not live my life entirely as a Jew, I think it is fitting that I should leave as a Jew. I don't want to ... turn my back on a great and noble heritage.

Better than sweet tea on a veranda. I want to live at Belmont!

Why can't I have normal friends?' Stonny demanded. 'Ones without tiger stripes and cat eyes? Ones without a hundred thousand souls riding their backs? Here comes a rider from that other lagging company – maybe he's normal! Hood knows, he's dressed like a farmer and looks inbred enough to manage only simple sentences. A perfect man! Hey! You! No, what are you hesitating for? Come to us, then! Please!

Life belonged to other people, and his only claim to it was his power to take it from them. Nor would he recognize hope if it came to him. Too much a stranger, too long a ghost.

Would it be enough? He did not know, but it had to be, for without friends there was nothing, no-one.

No soul deserved to stand alone

Your family was much more of a closed system. Your parents maintained few ties, if any, with the larger community. You did not bring friends over, nor did your parents share their home with their friends or neighbors. A sense of isolation pervaded your home. You felt no belonging or connection to anything larger than your own family.

Do they hate the idea of her, because she's different from them, and that in this difference there might be some sort of inferiority or superiority that is hers or theirs, that in the end threatens the potential happiness of everyone?

God dances with the outcast.

The Royal family to me are not England, and they are not the flag.

If you travel to Germany, it's still absolutely Germany. If you travel to Sweden, it still has a Swedish identity.

My school colors were clear. We used to say, 'I'm not naked, I'm in the band.

You were part of something, and miraculously, you survived that part.

For his own reasons, Othman objected to those who sought to govern the movements of others of his kind. His movements, after all, would always be considered suspect. His heart went out to the Murkasters. He felt he knew exactly what had happened to them, and it was not a flight into exile.

We are part of the sea, aren't we? How long have we lived here, breathed in its scent, eaten the produce soaked in its salt? Think how we used to play in it as children.

Tayven knew a lot about Foy, but seemed ignorant of Misk, Jia, and Thrope. Rav didn't like the way they made him feel. They belonged to him, yet he felt that he belonged to them.

Among the tubes, aloneness is a thing to be avoided. We thrive in each other's company.

I should have been with them, yes, part of them. I was meant to be part of them, but now I was there in my salon with the Lord of Light.

This is my home. You've made it so.

He has touched you, enfolded you. You are his.

It is time now, Lily Murkaster, for you to come home.

She felt as if she'd finally come home, to people that had always been her people. Women working magic together, a tradition as old as the earth Herself.

She was with them now, enfolded by their magic.