Quotes About Belonging

Steven Spielberg's mother, who said to E.T., I don't care where you're from, you're here and you're gonna get bar mitzvahed! Never got a dinner!

Being married to a daughter of India is a natural complement of my being in this country for 30 years. My roots are very much in this country, even though I remain a Westerner.

You were my home, Mother. I had no home but you

I am still confused because I still don't know who my father is. And so who is my mother? The feeling is still there.

My mother is Irish, my father is black and Venezuelan, and me - I'm tan, I guess.

My mother is the source of my unease in the world and thus the only person who can make me feel at home in the world.

I don't see a white woman. I see a black woman, even though my mother is white. Knowing that has made my life easier, I think.

The English was really my mother, it was never me. Being the daughter of my father, I always felt very French.

At the moment, my mother is the only one left in Glasgow, although it's certainly my home.

I was very much in my own world, never the popular kid. But I had a great family, a great brother and mother.

Sean Óg ó Hailpín.... his father's from Fermanagh, his mother's from Fiji, neither a hurling stronghold.

On my mother's side I'm Polish-Jewish, and on my father's side I'm Scottish puffin.

My mother helped me identify myself the way the world would identify me. Bloodlines didn't matter as much as how I would be perceived.

I have never felt any connection with my family. There is—I must say simply—something in me that is not in my family. That was not visible in my father or mother. I do not know its origin.

I live in Paris but I feel I am a daughter of Europe.

My father has passed away. He was African-American. My mother is white. So I was adopted by a couple that was of a similar dynamic as my biological parents.

I always felt like an outsider growing up. In school, I felt like I never fit in. But it didn't help when my mother, instead of buying me glue for school projects, would tell me to just use rice.

By his father he is English, by his mother he is Americanto my mind the blend which makes the perfect man.

Talking about your home town is like talking about your own mother.

A triptych in which the presiding deities are Mother, England and Me.

The thing I miss most from home, is having a home.

You know who you belong to, Jack?""Yeah.""Yourself."He's wrong, actually, I belong to Ma.

My mother was American, and my father was from the Caribbean, and there was a big open door into the world of humanity and music.

My life is black and white and mixed. My mother's a Rastafarian, my dad was a short white guy - it's not an affectation. It's also the lives of millions of people throughout the world.