Quotes About Belonging

As an immigrant justice advocate, I, of course, want legal status for everyone trying to make it in this country.

An outside party don't ever stay outside.

Diversity can't be a fashionable thing: it should be here to stay.

I tell people I'm from all over Brooklyn because I never stayed in one part of Brooklyn.

In my first few years of being in New York, I had a major identity crisis because I'd never stayed in one place for so long.

Eventually, I gave up my sublet in Berlin and stayed in England for a long time - for about 20 years.

I've always had a connection here in the city from the first day I arrived. I stayed in the city. I made San Francisco my home. I was seen in the offseason at a lot of different functions, and people liked that.

Families used to come from somewhere, and that's where they stayed.

I lived on a farm with cows, and I lived in the city with rats. My family stayed in Colorado for a while, then went from Los Angeles to Arizona. People would ask me where I'm from, and I would have to say, 'I don't have a clear answer for you.'

I don't live in L.A. I actually live in Atlanta, Georgia. After I graduated from Spelman, I just stayed and never left. And I love it.

Those who came to France came to find France, not to turn it into their country of origin. If that's what they wanted, they should've stayed in their country.

We would have loved to have stayed in the U.K. but we're creatures of California and we missed the ocean and most of all the sun.

For me, Munich is more than just a second home. I can imagine staying forever.

I like staying in the hood.

What happens with any announcer when he comes into an area, if he stays four or five years and does a fairly decent job, people accept him and he becomes part of the family.

Everyone that plays for Liverpool always stays in the Liverpool family.

Many Lexington natives believe they live in a special place, one impossible to leave. I'm not so sure about that - or it's more accurate to say I think a more general truth exists beneath it: the place you first call home stays with you always, whether you remain or go.

When you're guest-starring, it's very nice, but you're there very briefly, and it's right there in the name: You're a guest. It's very hard to get a real sense of belonging. With recurring and regular roles, at least you have a sense that this is a home and a steady place.

Looking out over the port of Dover, with the endless steam of boats coming in and out, every British citizen is reminded that belonging here has never been about blood or genes. It's simply about being at home on this discrete island and being aware of the privileges and responsibilities that brings.

Being in a fandom is something you don't understand unless you're in one. I think it stems off of everyone wants more of something.

My stepfather and his large family - The Crafts - are from Chicago, so Chicago has always been home for me.

My mother remarried when I was young, and my stepfather adopted me.

It wasn't until I picked up Neil Gaiman, Diana Wynne Jones and Stephen King that I found there were people who were like me.

The first time that I stepped onto a stage, it was life-changing. For once, I felt comfortable and in a place where I belonged. It changed my life forever.