Quotes About Belonging

El único pecado que no se perdona en España es el de no tomar bando y resistirse a unirse a un rebaño u otro

think flags are nothing but painted rags that represent rancid emotions. Just seeing someone wrapped up in one of them, spewing out hymns, badges and speeches, gives me the runs. I've always thought that anyone who needs to join a herd so badly must be a bit of a sheep himself.

That's your problem. You try to be like everyone else. Everyone is unique here. They won't like you unless you be your own person.

Gay male and lesbian culture is obsessed with purity of identity as the only basis for figuring out who you can trust or dance with. -Pat Califia

His voice, you might say, became the place where he lived, the way other people live in their furniture or gestures

Hay partes del cuerpo que uno lleva consigo mismo durante toda la vida, pero que nunca posee realmente.

Whoever said you had to share DNA with a person for them to be family had rocks for brains [...]

Honey, we're not just friends. We are family whether we share DNA or not.

Nothing was ever definite, but in that moment, Jill's soul had found a permanent home.

They were all kin, not by blood, but by heartstrings.

ours, I have to keep track of what goes in which of the gift bags lined up across the spare bedroom floor. But one thing for sure in this family: we all agree that home is where your boots are, just like Callie and Finn find out when

A house isn't a real home without some past, present, and future in it.

The girl shook her head. "I feel I'm not wanted. The letter wasn't cordial. Oh dear, what shall I do?" Nancy gave Laura a hug. "You'll be at school and during vacations you can visit friends. And you have a new friend named Nancy Drew!

Fish gotta swim, bird gotta fly, werewolf gotta have a pack?" I said wryly.

They are the we of me.

It happened that green and crazy summer when Frankie was twelve years old. This was the summer when for a long time she had not been a member. She belonged to no club and was a member of nothing in the world. Frankie had become an unjoined person and hung around in doorways, and she was afraid.

After the first establishment of identity there comes the imperative need to lose this new-found sense of separateness and to belong to something larger and more powerful than the weak, lonely self. The sense of moral isolation is intolerable to us.

Lo terrible, en mi caso, es que durante mucho tiempo no he sido más que un Yo. Todo el mundo forma parte de un Nosotros, salvo yo. Si uno no forma parte de un Nosotros, se siente verdaderamente demasiado solo».

She stood in the corner of the bride's room, wanting to say: I love the two of you so much and you are the we of me. Please take me with you from the wedding, for we belong to be together.

This was the summer when for a long time she had not been a member. She belonged to no club and was a member of nothing in the world. Frankie had become an unjoined person who hung around in doorways, and she was afraid.

I recognise the place, I feel at home here, but I don't belong. I am of, and not of, this place.

When I was a girl I didn't know/I was a girl. I thought I was/more of a pigment, a choral tone,/some kind of weather that disrupts everyone's life in the living room.

A ghost from her past, part of a world to which she no longer belonged but had never stopped missing.

Depending upon the nature of the cultural information received, the Métis person might decide to identify as First Nations exclusively. Some people may choose to identify as both First Nations and Métis; it is the federal government that requires people to choose one of the two. (p. 45)