Quotes About Belonging

My family is from Morocco, and I was born and raised in Canada, but I'm an Indian at heart, for sure.

To get the hippie out of certain characters is probably the most difficult thing for me. I was not a hippie by choice but by birth.

My whole thing was being wanted and being accepted by a ball club. That was the most important thing to me.

I think first thing and the most important thing, for me, is that Boston becomes my musical home, my musical family.

The most important thing is how you are made to feel in your home.

I'm part Jewish and part Christian, but I'm mostly Jewish.

Both my mother-in-law and Rajiv made it easy for me. I feel very Indian and am not conscious of being an Italian in India.

All I ever want is to return to either Bangladesh, my motherland, or India, my adopted home.

India is my motherland.

My children are English, and both of their mothers were English.

There are those who simply want to live their lives, and feel they cannot live the way they want to in Iran. Others are ideologically motivated: They will stay no matter what and try to change things.

I sound like a racist, a benighted man or a xenophobe, but I'm motivated by love for my country and the knowledge that I don't have another country.

There's this really awesome theory of human motivation - that human beings all want three things. One is to be competent, one is to belong, and one is be free, as in to have choice: to not be told what to do but to choose what to do.

I think the best thing I can say about it - and I think the best thing you can say about anything, really - is that 'The Motorcycle Diaries' made me feel like my home was bigger; it made me feel at home anywhere in Latin America.

Once you're a Motown artist, you're always a Motown artist.

Which of us is not forever a stranger and alone?

The sight of these closed golden houses with their warmth of life awoke in him a bitter, poignant, strangely mixed emotion of exile and return, of loneliness and security, of being forever shut out from the palpable and passionate integument of life and fellowship, and of being so close to it that he could touch it with his hand, enter it by a door, possess it with a word--a word that, somehow, he could never speak, a door that, somehow, he would never open.

I had not yet learned that one cannot really be superior without humility and tolerance and human understanding. I did not yet know that in order to belong to a rare and higher breed one must first develop the true power and talent of selfless immolation.

Fate is the magnetic pull of our souls toward the people, places, and things we belong with.

Uno debe estar donde está su corazón.

Me? I belong to Jesus Christ. Like it or not. They wet you and get you. Anyway. No other bastard will have me.

As harsh as it may sound to some of us, Toni Morrison had it right when she suggested, "In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate.

Don't think about it too hard. If your heart longs to be here…then your heart is here. If your heart is here…that is reason enough.

All the shouting is suddenly harmonic. You're making yourself heard at last but the words aren't yours, the rhythm isn't yours. You've become one with the group.