Quotes About Belonging

Our people think: I , Wangari, a Kenyan by birth - how can I be a vagrant in my own country as if I were a foreigner.

in spite of all her misgivings, she glowed and thought to herself. 'This is my place. This is where I belong.

A story about family, first loves, second chances, and the moments in life that leads you back home

I've been thinking about you constantly since I left, wondering why the journey I'm on seemed to have led through you. I know my journey's not over yet, and that life is a winding path, but I can only hope it somehow circles back to the place I belong. That's how I think of it now. I belong with you.

That's my sweetheart in there. Wherever she is, that's where my home is.

Trust me on this: no one is better off alone.

Spending time with you just feels...right,somehow. Easy, like the way it's supposed to be. Like it is with my parents. They're just comfortable together, and I remember growing up thinking that one day I wanted to have that, too.

That's my sweetheart in there. I'm not living her. This is my home now. Your mother is my home.

and there had been times when he wished he'd been born into a different family.

You've gotta feel at home when you're on the mound.

When I completed writing 'Soul Mountain,' I more or less closed the accounts with China for myself. I was 50 years old when I left, so China is already within me.

Being raised in Iowa, I know what a cornfield does for me, and I wanted to have that same kind of feeling for the Ramapo Mountains.

I am proud to be a daughter of the mountains.

I think we all feel like misfits when we open our mouth sometimes, you know?

If you move to Canada, after a few years you call yourself Canadian. In Germany, it's difficult to belong.

I want to clear this once and for all. I was born in Hong Kong. I grew up in Japan and China. London is not home for me. I was there only for three years before I moved to India, but that's probably why I am connected with it. London is definitely not the place I consider my home. It's India that I consider home.

When I first moved from Shanghai when I was five, I just thought of myself as Chinese.

I never used to get homesick when I first moved to L.A.

I moved a lot when I was in California, so I know a lot of people everywhere.

My parents moved to San Francisco from India when I was a year old.

Both my parents moved here from Argentina before I was born, so they were in a foreign country.

People ask me all the time, 'Why did I move home?' As well as I can articulate it, that's why. I moved home because I love the community that I come from.

I didn't feel like I had a home until I moved to El Paso.

In high school, I was kind of a loner because I had moved to a new school.