Quotes About Belonging

Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty." ? Mother Teresa

No matter how hard they tried, they could never take all their memories with them: the best memories would remain here, between these thin walls.

Ronald Takaki, an ethnic studies professor at the University of California at Berkeley, once called the Chinese and other Asian Americans "strangers from a different shore." I propose to take this a step further. At various times in history, the Chinese Americans have been treated like strangers on both shores—a people regarded by two nations as too Chinese to be American, and too American to be Chinese.

They really wanted to remain always in their own house and their own garden. There are such people.

He was glad she had come; she was for him, as he for her, 'another place'.

He felt himself falling into a state, very common when he was younger, of being totally cut off from the society he was in.

The whole extraordinary business was over. And I was back where I belonged, where my childhood had condemned me to be, alone, out in the cold without a coat.

That's how vile I am! I live Ireland, I breathe Ireland, and Christ how I loathe it, I wish I were a bloody Scot, that's how bloody awful it is being Irish! I think I hate Ireland more than I hate the theatre, and that's saying something!

Are we not somehow compelled by love? I shall not let one day pass without giving you the assurance of mine. Surely there is a future for us together. I am yours yours yours.

Here I am, after all, welcome home, I'm yours. To which Henry replied: When I wanted you you were not mine, when I needed you you rejected me. Why should I cherish you now?

Where's your house?' 'Kempsford Gardens, by West Brompton tube station.

Dora watched him for a while, nervously, and then returned to scanning the whole group. Seeing them all together like that she felt excluded and aggressive, and Noel's exhortations came back to her. They had a secure complacent look about them: the spiritual ruling class; and she wished suddenly that she might grow as large and fierce as a gorilla and shake the flimsy doors off their hinges, drowning the repulsive music in a savage carnivorous yell.

Come in, defeat, come in and make yourself at home.

I think we belong to each other.

I felt such a stranger there, like a poor lodger. One must be with one's own people.

Often, one compensates by playing an instrument, or going hiking, or joining some club. In other words, one creates a new type of society, when not working, in which one can feel more at home.

Él podía ser un extranjero, pero un hombre siempre es un hombre.

În tinereÈ›e p?r?sise Europa, plecând din Amsterdam; se schimbase ceva prin asta, nu r?m?sese acelaÈ™i om? ?i dac? mai târziu oamenii p?r?siser? un P?mânt bolnav, îndreptându-se spre alte lumi de pe firmament, nu r?m?seser? tot oameni? Nu era a sa toat? Galaxia? Nu erau cu toÈ›ii urmaÈ™ii lui È™i-ai fraÈ›ilor s?i?

Although I had turned away from the Jewish path i still carried the diaspora on me

los humanos somos criaturas gregarias, que no estamos programados para la soledad, sino para dar y recibir.

Patria es donde están nuestros muertos

He armado la idea de mi país como un rompecabezas, seleccionando aquellas piezas que se ajustan a mi diseño e ignorando las demás.

Mi vida ha sido una serie de navegaciones, he ido de un lado a otro en esta tierra. He sido extranjero sin saber que tenia raices profundas...

I called him Grandfather, because according to him you do not have to be of the same blood or same tribe to be a member of the same family, but in truth I should have called him Maman. He was the only mother I ever knew.