Quotes About Belonging

I remember arriving to my tryout and being extremely nervous, but the second I stepped in the ring, I knew this was where I was supposed to be.

When I stepped in America outside of the plane, I said, 'I came home.'

As soon as I stepped foot in Minnesota, I've been shown nothing except love.

Channel 4's 'Feel Good' is like the friends you make when you move to the big city and take your first, tentative steps into adulting, the flat-share-mates. Comedian Mae Martin is fantastic and the writing is perfect.

There's always been a quiet conversation and joke that if you're not hard, if you're not from impoverished neighborhoods, if you're not certain constructs of a black stereotype, then you not black.

I'm American; I was born and raised in America, and I don't want to fake who I am to fit a stereotype.

We do not call ourselves 'Native American,' because our blood and people were here long before this land was called the Americas. We are older than America can ever be and do not know the borders.

Ask an American soldier to identify himself, and he probably will say he is "in the Army." By contrast, a Marine— especially if he is one of the better ones— is likely to say, "I'm a Marine." The small linguistic difference is significant: The first is a matter of membership or occupation; the second speaks to identity.

The Franks may have lived near them, but I could no more choose to join them at their well-appointed table (to return to David Brooks's cafeteria metaphor) than I could flap my arms and fly to the moon.

To him it felt as if his house had seased to be his home and instead had become a place that merely contained some of his belongings.

To be baptized is a sign that everything we are – work and play, personality and character, commitments and passions, family and ethnicity – is gathered up and given shape and definition by our identity as one of God's own children.

That's my point: if you own thirty or more books, or you are reading any book at this moment, you may protest all you want, but you were born on the wrong continent.

That government is the strongest of which every man feels himself a part.

The false self is based on two foundational pillars: one is the energy invested in the emotional programs for happiness and the other is the tendency to over-identify with the particular group from which we come or to which we belong.

Nothing belongs to us. Everything is something that is rented out. Our very heads are filled with rented ideas passed on from one generation to the next.

My grandfather felt at home with his lunatics.

To become formally integrated into a society, one must offer it a blood sacrifice.

The farther you progress toward a vision of our species without limiting conditions on your consciousness, the farther you drift away from what makes you a person among persons in the human community.

But maybe they'd learned, and they'd act just mainstream enough that the other white people would accept their occasional violence

Some people are born where they belong, and some have to find their way there," said Alma Rivers. "There's no difference after that.

Some people are born where they belong, and some have to find their way there

Viewed in the light of what occurred later, it was a fool's paradise, but I could not have known that then. Fool's paradise in those weeks was still Heart's Desire, and it seemed nothing could possible happen to spoil the idyll of our new existence. Above all, and very real, was a profound sense of belonging not only to my family but tot he villagers, to the countryside, and , though I did not till it, to the land.

Seek home for rest, for home is best.

But why had he always felt so strongly the magnetic pull of home, why had he thought so much about it and remembered it with such blazing accuracy, if it did not matter, and if this little town, and the immortal hills around it, was not the only home he had on earth? He did not know. All that he knew was that the years flow by like water, and that one day men come home again.