Quotes About Belonging

I feel no bond with South Africa, which is curious, since South Africa is where I was born.

When I am in that lane, and I hear, 'Caster Semenya from South Africa,' I always know I am doing it for my people. They love and support me, and I will always do them proud; I will always put them first. Without them, I am nothing.

I'm just really honoured to play for South Africa. Just to be part of this team is a special feeling.

The longer I lived overseas, the more I appreciated being from South Africa.

South Africa is now my country.

South Carolina is a great place to be from.

I've been down to the University of South Carolina, University of Maryland, Clemson, spent some time on different college campuses and I see that small-town family environment.

I believe I'll see the reunification of North and South Korea in my lifetime and that defectors should play a role in rebuilding the country. In the long run, I want to return to North Korea, because that's where I belong.

I came to South Korea with a feeling of deep kinship, but people here perceive me only as a talbukja, someone of a different nationality.

I grew up on the South Side of Chicago, north Beverly. It was cool, everybody's cool on the block.

I'm a Southeast Ohio kid.

That first year I was in Ring of Honor, maybe it wasn't even a year, I was wearing the trucker hat thing and wearing John Deere stuff because I felt like part of what made me different from a lot of guys was that I was kind of a good ol' boy and a southern type of guy.

I'm too Southern.

Even with the fact that I grew up in North Carolina, 'Jim Rash' just screams 'Southern boy.'

I grew up in a Southern Baptist-style church with a choir, a band, and music, but I've been asking myself my whole life, 'Why is my own church, my own community, rejecting me because of my sexuality?'

I am a very particular and peculiar ethnicity. Southern European, Italians - they never fit in models.

I'm very proud of my Southern accent, it's part of me.

I'm a California girl, and I'd love to restore a sense of place to Southern California.

I've always been drawn back to the South, whether it's Southern California or in Florida, where I grew up, and I wanted to write a song about that.

Writing about where I was from and the people I knew was not something that would have occurred to me early on, because like so many Southerners of that period - the Sixties - I rejected those things when I went north.

Southerners are also like ethnic groups in that they have a sense of group identity.

I'm glad I'm Southern. I'm the Southerner who's very Southern in that she left to move to New York.

All the Southerners think we're Yanks, and all the Yanks think we're Southerners, and all the Midwesterners think we're East. Everybody's always wrong about Louisville. That's kind of why I love it so much.

When people ask me where my roots are, I look down at my feet, and I see the roots of my soul grasping the earth. They are here... in the Southwest... I still live in New Mexico.