Quotes About Belonging

Dwayne is right: blood does call to blood. I was always waiting for hers to beckon to mine, but I never considered that it would be my blood that would call upon hers.

home isn't where you land; home is where you launch. You can't pick your home any more than you can choose your family.

kin is the circle you create, hands held tight.

I was aware that she didn't belong to me. I didn't mean that, on paper at least, she was another's man's wife. If you knew her, you would know that she never belonged to him either. I'm not sure if she even realized it herself, but she's the kind of woman that will never belong to anyone.

home isn't where you land; home is where you launch. You can't pick your home any more than you can pick your family. In poker, you get five cards. Two are yours to keep: family and native land.

I hope you will not interpret this as rejection, because that is not my intention. You are a part of our family and every one of us holds you in highest regard.

I don't believe that blood makes a family; kin is the circle you create, hands held tight. There is something to shared genetics, but the question is, what exactly is that something? It matters that I didn't grow up with my father. It's kind of like having one leg that's half inch shorter than the other. You can walk, but there will be a dip.

Before we were living that Huxtable life. But now where are we? I know where you are and I know where I am, but where are WE?

But home isn't where you land; home is where you launch. You can't pick your home any more than you can choose your family. In poker, you get five cards. Three of them you can swap out, but two are yours to keep: family and native land. I'm not talking bad about Eloe.

But home isn't where you land; home is where you launch.

there should be a word for this, the way it feels to steal something that's already yours.

she is country, too. But let her tell it, she's a "southern woman,

I wanted to live in a house with walls painted in various shades of blue and green, instead of the eggshell hue that screamed renter.

There are two kinds of people in the world, those who leave home, and those who don't.

But home isn't where you land; home is where you launch. You can't pick your home any more than you can choose your family.

Casa tua non è il posto dove atterri ; è quello da cui decolli . Non è possibile scegliersi una casa, come non lo è scegliersi una famiglia. Nel poker ti toccano cinque carte. Tre le puoi scambiare, ma due te le devi tenere: la famiglia e la terra in cui sei nato.

home isn't where you land; home is where you launch. You can't pick your home any more than you can choose your family. In poker, you get five cards. Three of them you can swap out, but two are yours to keep: family and native land.

There are two kinds of people in the world, those who leave home, and those who don't. I'm a proud member of the first category.

Over there is like here, neither better or worse. But I am from here, just as the date palm standing in the courtyard of our house has grown in our house and not in anyone else's.

This is the message of Christmas: We are never alone.

No man is more abhorred than a man who is different from his neighbors. They feel violated and threatened if one dares to be as they are not.

It was a time of great loneliness. He had a group of friends, and suddenly I had no one and did not understand why. I felt excluded. Some days, the majority was in high school and did not know who to talk to. And that is something really terrible when you're twelve years old.

I'm only me when I'm with you.

Your hands are tough but there mine belong in.