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Quotes About Belonging

All people want on this earth is to connect with others. Other than eating and sleeping. Human beings need to connect with other human beings. Otherwise, they lose their mind.
~ Sally Field
I wish that every baby everywhere could land in a family that wanted that baby as much as we want ours.
~ Sharon Creech
Every character is asking: Whats my place? Why am I here? I dont want the answer to be Just because. You find your own purpose. Each finds the reason to be here and how to contribute.
~ Sharon Creech
In school if you're different that's uncool. But I try to maintain confidence in who I am...because...you know...I don't really want to change it.
~ Taylor Swift
You never read Spider-Man? Accepting your true identity means understanding that you are a stranger to this world. A freak, ostracized by the very people you want to help.
~ Ted Dekker
Some versions of patriotism come close to the tribal, which we all want to surpass, and some don't.
~ Todd Gitlin
Senators, like everyone else, want to feel a part of this decision-making process. They want to feel included.
~ Tom Daschle
The country has already become multicultural. Given immigration trends, it will only grow more diverse, and these new Americans want to share in their country's identity.
~ Tom Gjelten
She was drowning-in friendliness, in community-and she was starting to think she didn't want to get pulled out.
~ Tricia Goyer
All of you desire to belong entirely to God, and God also wants all of you to belong to Him
~ Vincent de Paul
The life of the city never lets you go, nor do you ever want it to.
~ Wallace Stevens
Nobody wants to be called common people, especially common people.
~ Will Rogers
It's human nature to want to be with other people.
~ Zoe Lister-Jones
Obama reminds me of the black kid at a white school that don't nobody want to play with.
~ Ice Cube
I come from a middle class background. I have travelled a lot by trains and have lived in the world. It is a world I cannot get away from; I would not even want to.
~ Imtiaz Ali
Are you insane? Of course I want to leave the Dursleys! Have you got a house? When can I move in?
~ J. K. Rowling
To be part of a community feels really good - to be among people who have similar feelings and want to share thoughts. It's a nice feeling.
~ Jack Johnson
I have found that I am not a space where people want to live, at least not without decorating first.
~ Jeanette Winterson
I spent my whole adolescence, when you just want to be accepted, looking much younger than everyone else.
~ Jenna Fischer
Now that Scotty has entered the realm of myth, everyone wants to own him. And maybe they should. Doesn't a myth belong to everyone?
~ Jennifer Egan
I would be very happy to go to America. America is where I was raised and that's exactly what I want.
~ John McAfee
Everybody wants to be American, it seems; I travel enough to know.
~ Jon Anderson
Everyone desires relationships and community. Most people want to belong to a cohesive, like-minded group. It staves off loneliness. It promotes identity. These are natural and very human instincts.
~ Joshua Ferris
I do situate myself in this problem of being a Jew who doesn't want to be represented by the state of Israel, a state that claims to represent all Jewish people and make me into a potential citizen.
~ Judith Butler