Quotes About Belonging

They'll not blame me. They'll not object to me. They'll not mind what I do, if it's wrong. I'm only Mr. Dick.

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.

You are part of my existence, part of myself.

It is a most miserable thing to feel ashamed of home.

I'm wrong in these clothes. I'm wrong out of the forge, the kitchen, or off th' meshes.

Oh, the river!…I know it's like me…I know that I belong to it. I know that it's the natural company of such as I am! It comes from country places, where there once was no harm in it—and it creeps through the dismal streets, defiled and miserable—and it goes away, like my life, to a great sea, that is always troubled—and I feel that I must go with it!

No man but feels more of a man in the world if he have but a bit of ground that he can call his own. However small it is on the surface, it is four thousand miles deep; and that is a very handsome property.

To be truly seen and heard, to be truly known, is a deep human need. Our hunger for it is so omnipresent, so much a part of our experience of life, that we no more know what it is we are missing than a fish knows it is wet.

I think we're property. I should say we belong to something: That once upon a time, this earth was No-man's Land, that other worlds explored and colonized here, and fought among themselves for possession, but that now it's owned by something: That something owns this earth -- all others warned off.

no maths can entail love— lovers belong to infinity

I have my own little world, but it's okay — they know me here.

A little girl, when asked where her home was, replied, "Where Mother is."

The mountains and the stones and the birds and the animals are my family too —

"You must love this place very much," said Miss Fenn... "So many homes are like twenty others. But this is unique, and you seem to know every cranny of it. I dare say you could never love another home so well." "Oh, I carry it with me," said Deronda... "To most men their early home is no more than a memory of their early years... The image is never marred. There's no disappointment in memory, and one's exaggerations are always on the good side."

I am what is mine. Personality is the original personal property.

Having someone wonder where you are when you don't come home at night is a very old human need.

Bare is shoulder without brother, bare hearth without sister.

Ich fürchte, grad unter Menschen möchtest du ein Mensch zu sein verlernen.

In the 1950s I rarely went to a community meeting without Jimmy and would usually just listen or ask questions. Now, having worked in the city and socialized with Jimmy's friends and Correspondence readers for years, I felt I had something to contribute. I was beginning to feel comfortable with the we pronoun, so comfortable that in FBI records of that period I am described as Afro-Chinese.

Meiguoren! Meiguoren!

produce an entire album, which became The Place I Love.

Yet of course nationalism is always "imagined"; identity is what you think you are.

I belong to the tribe of the grasshopper, not that of the ant.

Actually, now I no longer think of myself as American. Rather, I now think of myself as an American who is living globally. A global citizen. A citizen of the world. It makes me feel as if my perspective has broadened. It is much more expansive and inclusive.