Quotes About Belonging

Home is a symbol of the self. Caring for a home is caring for one's self.

Everyone has a home but me.

Whether we work to live, as most of us do, or live to work, as some of us are lucky enough to do, work doesn't have to be a four-letter word. It can and should be a source of belonging, growth, and pleasure.

People want to come home to the church of their childhood without having to leave their adult selves behind.

Soon we discovered the intensity of interest in the simple idea that each person's shared humanity and individual uniqueness far outweighed any label by group of birth, whether sex, race, class, sexuality, ethnicity, religious heritage, or anything else.

And it came to me, and I knew what I had to have before my soul would rest. I wanted to belong-to belong to my mother. And in return-I wanted my mother to belong to me.

I looked forward to making friends at school, but I had come late and friendships had already been formed. I couldn't find my way into their world. They seemed to have a secret code I couldn't decipher.

Esos pocos árboles que no son míos me impiden la plena posesión del mundo.

Above all, this country is our own. Nobody has to get up in the morning and worry what his neighbors think of him. Being a Jew is no problem here.

Fighting who you are just to fit in, is a battle you can never win. Shine On. BE your SELF.

The way we connect and interact with each other defines who we are.

America is me. It gave me the only life I know—so I must share in its survival. Look at me. Listen to me.

A house was not a home without animals.

But the place which you have selected for your camp, though never so rough and grim, begins at once to have its attractions, and becomes a very centre of civilization to you: "Home is home, be it never so homely."

No heaven will not ever Heaven be Unless my cats are there to welcome me.

Christmas is a time when you get homesick — even when you're home.

The reward for conformity was that everyone liked you except yourself.

Home is where the dog is.

All the people like us are We. And every one else is They. And They live over the sea. While We live over the way. But — would you believe it? — They look upon We As only a sort of They!...

Poor Folks have neither any Kindred nor any Friends.

All the water in the sea won't wash out our kindred.

The lack of emotional security of our American young people is due, I believe, to their isolation from the larger family unit. No two people — no mere father and mother — as I have often said, are enough to provide emotional security for a child. He needs to feel himself one in a world of kinfolk, persons of variety in age and temperament, and yet allied to himself by an indissoluble bond which he cannot break if he could, for nature has welded him into it before he was born.

But it was home. And though home is a name, a word, it is a strong one; stronger than magician ever spoke, or spirit answered to, in strongest conjuration.

Home is where the wi-fi connects automatically.