Quotes About Belonging

I was a huge nerd in high school. Sure, I socialized - but I was definitely a nerd.

In high school, you re either a bully, a jock or a nerd, and I somehow tried to jump between camps by using humor. It's amazing how you can blend in with that.

I think that nerds, if you want to call them that, have only gotten more hip and assimilated into the culture.

I was an athlete, but I was also a nerd. And so I didn't really fit in with the jocks because I was a nerd, and I didn't fit in with the nerds because I was a jock.

There's a lot of closeted nerds out there.

We were the choir nerds.

I was a failed grunge kid who was too nerdy to totally get down with rock.

To this day, I get very nervous coming back into my own country.

I love my home comforts and I need to nest to feel grounded.

L.A. is only where you live, because otherwise it's just a sprawling mass of everything, and I think if you live in L.A., you get a little network of places you go, and people you see, and when you leave town, you do miss those places and your friends.

Nevada has literally become my second home.

I am proud to be Pinoy and I never forget where I came from.

I'm drawn to New England because that's where my roots are, and I miss it. I come from many generations of New Englanders, and so, in my writing, I've been drawn back there to the landscape and the light and the type of personality that's revealed.

New Jersey was like home for me the first time I was there.

I had never really felt settled in Brooklyn. I think it had to do with growing up in New Jersey and being someone who her whole life wanted to live in the city, and the city meant Manhattan.

I feel very much rooted in being Egyptian, and I also feel very rooted in being a guy from New Jersey.

I can't see myself every leaving. I love New Jersey.

I'm half-Chinese and half-Caucasian. My grandparents came here from China. My father was born in New Jersey.

I landed in New Jersey, where I could barely speak English, and I had to figure out what a short brown kid was going to do in this big white world.

I'm just this Dominican kid from New Jersey.

I was born in New Jersey and lived there until I was about 10, so Jersey is in my roots.

I feel very connected to New Jersey.

I'm from New Jersey. But I went to school in Los Angeles and all across the country. So, I can totally connect with missing home.

The Clash will always be from London, and we will always be from New Jersey. But New Jersey doesn't create us.