Quotes About Belonging

Over the summer I thought that I would seek out non-Americans as friends, just for diversity's sake. Now I find that I want to be around Americans – people who I know are thinking about our country as much as I am.

"I look at you and I'm home."

"When I look at you, I can feel it. I look at you, and I'm home."

Isn't it a characteristic of the age we live in that it has made everyone in a way a migrant and a member of a minority?

I've always felt somewhat out of place with other kids my own age", said River. "I was constantly reminded by people's reaction to our names and our diet that we seemed weird to them.

A person remains immature, whatever his age, as long as he thinks of himself as an exception to the human race.

Everyone sort of feels alienated at that point, so it's hard to say whether I felt like that because everyone does or because I was so focused on acting [since the age of 8].

It is a great shock at the age of five or six to find that in a world of Gary Coopers you are the Indian.

To an old man any place that's warm is homeland.

This middle age thing is a little weird. Some friends and mentors are gone, and there's a very forward-looking new generation coming up behind me. So it's very much finding my own place.

From about the age of 5, I was aware that I didn't fit. I was the black, atheist kid in the all-white, Catholic school run by nuns. I was an anomaly.

I had a chair at every hearth, When no one turned to see, With 'Look at that old fellow there, 'And who may he be?

I was bullied pretty badly especially in middle school. High school was not as bad as middle school, but I was not a macho kid at all. And the kids saw me as different from a very, very early age.

I never fit in with my peer group. I never hung out with kids my age - I always wanted to hang out with my mom and her girlfriends.

When I got near teen age, I was so happy with my friends and the African-American culture that I couldn't imagine not being part of it.

We have all known the long loneliness, and we have found that the answer is community.

Without a family, man, alone in the world, trembles with the cold.

Perhaps only people who are capable of real togetherness have that look of being alone in the universe. The others have a certain stickiness, they stick to the mass.

If you're feeling abandoned by the world, interact with anyone you can.

We are born seekers, calling strange names into the darkness from our earliest days because we know we are not meant to be alone, and because we know that we await someone whom we cannot always see.

You can't walk alone. Many have given the illusion, but none have really walked alone. Man is not made that way. Each man is bedded in his people, their history, their culture, and their values.

Always the aim for me is making people feel like they are not alone. That's just the greatest feeling.

The deepest need of the human being is to overcome our separateness, to leave the prison of our loneliness.

The tragedy is not that we are alone, but that we cannot be. At times I would give anything in the world to no longer be connected by anything to this universe of men.