Quotes About Belonging

Living in different cultures helped me work out who I was going to be, separate from where I came from.

My vision of America is an America where everyone has a place, if you're willing to work hard, you do your part, you contribute to the community.

I think I really produce my best work in Iran.

I don't think that because I am Hispanic I should therefore do Hispanic work.

Every house we have lived in, every building to which our hands have lent their work, belongs to us by virtue of love or of regret.

All throughout my work, even in the United States, I have worked with the greater Cambodian community.

Personally, its a comfort and happiness to know that my work is taken seriously and is not marginalised and put in a box of ethnic immigrant writing in America.

I've always liked being relatively obscure. I feel that's where I belong, that's where my work belongs.

It was never tough [ being the new guy]. It's just the warmest group of people [The Office stuff] you could ever hope to work with.

I'm constantly seen as a 'foreigner,' and I need my passport to prove my identity, to keep moving and to carry on my work.

I don't belong to any country clubs. I don't have this big circle of friends. Where I make my friends is where I work.

Most importantly, we want to create a company where every employee can bring their whole selves to work.

I don't see myself as some kind of lone figure standing out there and doing my work in solitary splendour, but as part of the human condition and part of the continuum of writers.

As a Canadian, I feel like we all have a stake in the business here. And no matter how far you stray - and I've been down in L.A. for a long time - no matter how far you stray you have a stake in the state of the business... It really does matter and I'm always rooting for the entire country.

Quality of life actually begins at home - it's in your street, around your community.

I've always had that maternal thing: that connection with street kids and people who are misfits.

My books are about ordinary people, like you, me, people on the street, people who really have an expectation of reasonable happiness in life, want their life to have a sense of security and predictability, who want to belong to something bigger than them, who want love and affection in their life, who want a good future for the children.

The home is the center of life - a refuge from the grind of work, pressure of school, menace of the streets, a place to be ourselves.

Philadelphia's awesome. It's one of my top home-away-from-homes. When I walk around on the streets there, people recognize me. They think I'm from Philadelphia, because I was there so much and because I'm so associated with Philadelphia through ECW.

Home was never a safe place for me. I felt safer on the streets.

I was always the one left behind. Out in the streets, when they saw me they'd say, That's just one of the Bee Gees.

I had taken on the color of the climate around me and had driven back all the emotion that rose from the Brooklyn streets so that I could belong to the exclusive club of Congress.

In other countries, it's a common thing to have outcast children running around the streets in packs, and I don't think we're so far away from it here.

As football gets more globalised, it's probably more important than ever to have one or two players in your team who have grown up in the same streets or been to the same schools as the hard-core fans.