Quotes About Belonging

without having to consider to what class they belonged. They all belonged to human race which without his thinking about it, all appeared dear to Olenin and they all treated him in a friendly manner way.

How could you not see that I'm a woman? Yes, a woman, who might belong to anyone - yes, even to you,

But instead of all that, here he was—the rich husband of an unfaithful wife, a retired gentleman-in-waiting, who liked to eat, drink, and, unbuttoning himself, to denounce the government a little, a member of the Moscow English Club, and a universally beloved member of Moscow society.

Like a cat, she had attached herself not to the people but to the home.

It is never long before identity is reduced to loyalty.

every heart, every heart to love will come but like a refugee.

The nationalists, at heart, were socialists. The socialists, at heart, were nationalists.

With all else that's been taken from us, we ask that you leave us our name, our self-respect, our sense of belonging to the great human family of which we are all part.

At the table, where food and stories are passed from one person to another and one generation to another, is where each of us learns who we are, where we come from, what we can be, to whom we belong, and to what we are called.

For Jesus the home is not what defines the table; the table is what defines the home.

If you are alone you belong entirely to yourself. If you are accompanied by even one companion you belong only half to yourself or even less in proportion to the thoughtlessness of his conduct and if you have more than one companion you will fall more deeply into the same plight.

Come tutti i siciliani "buoni", come tutti i siciliani migliori, Majorana non era portato a far gruppo, a stabilire solidarietà e a stabilirvisi (sono i siciliani peggiori quelli che hanno il genio del gruppo, della cosca).

No sheep may leave the flock," he said to anyone who would listen, "unless he comes back again.

Cloud war das wolligste Schaf der Herde, und sie füllte sich überall wohl. Wollig und wohlig hingen zusammen.

Mi estómago era el lugar donde se asentaba la sociedad, pero también el punto por donde me unía con todos los elementos de la tierra.

Houses are really bodies. We connect ourselves with walls, roofs, and objects just as we hang on to our livers, skeletons, flesh and bloodstream.

Aber du willst nur mein sein unter Bedingungen, während ich dir bedingungslos gehöre.

Does it diminish your joy that I have belonged to another

Book of Life says, "Where your heart is, there your treasure is also."3

Other things may change us, but we start and end with family. Anthony Brandt

How did the infant sent away from his family grow up to redefine the whole concept of family and tribe into something far larger: the umma, the people or the community of Islam?

Treated by his own people as one of them yet not one of them, he couldn't help but be aware of the contradictions inherent in a society that was supposed to be his, but seemed to have no place for him.

Every day I saw others like me in this city—enough of us to populate our own town. But we only acknowledged each other with a furtive glance, fearful of calling attention to ourselves. Being alone in public was painful enough; two could find themselves smack in the center of an unbearable sideshow. We didn't seem to have any of our own places to gather in community, to immerse ourselves in our own ways and our own languages.

That's when I began passing as a man. Strange to be exiled from your own sex to borders that will never be home.