Quotes About Belonging

A convert, if he converts through the Orthodox, he has the Jewish gene. If he doesn't convert through the Orthodox, he doesn't have the Jewish gene. As simple as that.

Often times I don't watch the Oscars because I say this isn't for me.

One does not inhabit a country; one inhabits a language. That is our country, our fatherland - and no other.

Your connections with other people are important, our connection to the earth.

Misfits aren't misfits among other misfits.

We all need each other.

There's a civic nationalism in Britain and dozens of other countries.

Although I don't have anything against people from other countries, the higher the influx into England the more the British identity disappears.

With the issue of immigration, it's very difficult because, although I don't have anything against people from other countries, the higher the influx into England, the more the British identity disappears.

I lived in an all-black neighborhood, followed by an all-white one, and other kids in the always called me Mexican in both neighborhoods.

Other kids did drugs; I did crafts. I never knew where I fit in.

Honestly, I had no idea I was different from other kids until I started kindergarten. To my family, I was just Lizzie.

I knew I was different when I was about six years of age but I just knew that I wasn't like everybody else. I mean I wasn't like the other kids. I didn't know what that was. But I guess it was when I was in seventh or eighth grade, I'm like, 'Hey, something's wrong here.'

The problem is foster youth don't really have this network that other kids have.

Even from the age of about 6 years old, I was kind of made to feel different by other kids - you know, I was a quite pretty kid, and I got called 'girl' a lot, and 'woman' and all of that. And school is really not a place to be different.

At school, I could talk about what other kids were talking about. Maybe I wouldn't seem so strange if I connected with them on the level they were used to.

I always wonder what my life would be like if I had parents like the other kids who went to my high school.

People would call me Bruce Lee or Jackie Chan or whatever popular martial artist there was at that time. I also remember the other kids at the lunch table freaking out when I brought in Korean food.

So people ought to be free to leave here, but there ought to be opportunity for them to come home.

If the sad truth be known, writers, being the misfits we are, probably ought not to belong to families in the first place. We simply are too self-interested, though we may excuse the flaw by calling it 'focused.'

My motivation is, in part, a bit of angst that comes from feeling like I don't belong, that our generation doesn't belong.

We are Korean, so obviously they call our music K-pop. But we never thought of our music as K-pop. Our music is just our music.

When I was growing up, I despised Irishness. I felt our music, our television and our books were just poor imitations of what came out of Britain and America. I was all set to abandon it entirely.

A lot of people write and tell us what The B-52s meant to them - straight, straight-A students, those who were a little awkward, weren't always the ones who fit in. People have told us that just having us and our music was beyond important and really made me feel that what we were doing was worth something big.