Quotes About Belonging

When I speak to people from Britain, that's when I feel like a fake, speaking with an American accent.

Personally speaking, growing up as a gay man before it was as socially acceptable as it is now, I knew what it was to feel different, to feel alienated and to feel not like everyone else. But the very same thing that made me monstrous to some people also empowered me and made me who I was.

I speak English. I grew up speaking Bengali. This is the normal, the known, the obvious composition of who I am. Then there's Italian, this strange, other component of me that I've just created. It was a creative process just to learn the language, never mind to start expressing myself in it.

The landscape you grow up in speaks to you in a way that nowhere else does.

Because my parents are Indian, everybody speaks Hindi to me, and I have no idea what they are saying.

I guess we're all kinda searching for a connection with something that's relevant to our past and speaks to who we are, and maybe helps us make a connection to what we are, and where we come from.

You want to be part of something like that, that's something bigger than yourself, that's something you leave a legacy of being part of something special.

It has been very special to be a San Diego Charger.

Chicago is my hometown and will always have a special place in my heart.

For me, Minneapolis will always have a special place in my heart.

I am a Mumbaikar. It has a special place in my heart.

I've still got the same friends that I grew up with, I still go to the same places that I used to go to when I was younger, and it's just a very special place to me. I'm still very proud to call Iowa home.

I've only ever moved on when I've not been wanted. Experience has told me, when your time's up, you have to go. Don't get me wrong, I've enjoyed my time at all the clubs I've been at, and they've all got a special place in my heart.

I'm very happy here at 'SNL.' I've never been in a hurry to leave because it's such a special place. It's never the same when you leave and come back.

Minneapolis has always been a very special place for me.

Marist is a special place.

America has always been a special place for me, since my youth.

People at Fox are very close, and always feel like they're part of something. We may not agree on every issue, but it is a very special place.

Indiana is always home to me. It holds a special place in my heart.

I will tell you another thing, we Argentines criticise Messi because we are specialists in criticising what is ours.

The relation of the individual person to the species he belongs to is the most intimate of all relations.

I used to feel I was more French than anything, but I don't feel that way anymore. I really don't feel like I belong to a specific country, and it is so difficult for people to understand that.

The immigrant experience in 'Ilustrado' was only a small part of what I intended to be a broader look at the Filipino experience, even if that broader look was itself merely a specific perspective.

I felt like an outsider, so listening to a bunch of outsiders' music like Bjork and Patti Smith made me feel better. But at the same time, I didn't have anyone singing specifically 100% about things I could relate to.