Quotes About Belonging

I think Jersey stands alone, and because I'm from Jersey, I never make fun of where people are from. I'll make fun of what they look like, but I'll never make fun of where they are from. Jersey is special.

I always felt God had called me to serve within the church because of what the church stands for. This has always been home.

Being part of a crowd and not standing out is way more frightening than being the person that stands out.

I think it's important to remain true to myself, but ultimately the Miami Heat and what it stands for is part of me. It's part of my fabric.

Every man has two countries: his own and France.

A man's ethnic identity has more to do with a personal awareness than with geography.

A man can certainly be a Muppet. Being a Muppet is a state of mind. It's about finding that little part of you that's unique, and not being embarrassed by it, but cherishing it.

A man who lives everywhere lives nowhere.

One is a member of a country, a profession, a civilization, a religion. One is not just a man.

We must conceive of this whole universe as one commonwealth of which both gods and men are members.

No man is an island; but some are peninsulas.

Men love their country, not because it is great, but because it is their own.

The man who lives in a small community lives in a much larger world... The reason is obvious. In a large community we can choose our companions. In a small community our companions are chosen for us.

When a man no longer confuses himself with the definition of himself that others have given him, he is at once universal and unique.

How can a man be said to have a country when he has not right of a square inch of it.

The man who has a house everywhere has a home nowhere

The thinking man always finds himself in a gigantic orphanage in which people are continually proving to him that he has no parents.

The man is United - cut him and he bleeds red

The flag is a symbol of the fact that man is still a herd animal.

You learn how to be an individual quick after 15 schools, man. After the first five or six, you realize you're always gonna be the new kid.

A healthy nation is as unconscious of its nationality as a healthy man of his bones. But if you break a person's nationality it will think of nothing else but getting it set again.

The American city should be a collection of communities where every member has a right to belong. It should be a place where every man feels safe on his streets and in the house of his friends.

No man is an island, but some of us are long peninsulas.

In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man will poke out his eye to fit in.