Quotes About Belonging

I had a bilateral lisp, and I was overweight. I was the kid who played with the flowers on the ground in the outfield during baseball. I was that kid.

I am overwhelmed and I am glad I can make my parents proud by becoming a Canadian citizen. It has been a long journey becoming a Canadian citizen.

As a young man, even if I was going to see a play or a film by myself, I didn't feel like I was alone. There was something that was unfolding up there that brought me into it. And I recognised that. For those two hours, it made me feel like I belonged to something really good.

Being an only child, I didn't have any other family but my mom and dad really, since the rest of my family lived quite far away from London.

Their delight in posing as aliens, as transients, made a boast out of what should properly have been a cause of shame. 'To them, a homeland is a foreign country, and a foreign country a homeland

De eerste is Gerard Walschap, verre vriend en trouwe fan. Schrijver van stavast, geen groot talent voor toneelteksten, des te meer voor krachtig vertellen en stevige polemiek. 'Dag mensen, dat 't welga.' Dat staat in bijna minuscule letters op zijn graf van natuurtegels. Al bij het ingaan van het eerste oorlogsjaar had hij me gewaarschuwd, onder vier ogen en in bedekte termen. 'Doe gelijk iedere Belg al eeuwen doet. Buig mee zonder te buigen.

But now there are no natives – or we're the natives.

You belong among the wildflowers You belong in a boat out at sea You belong with your love on your arm You belong somewhere you feel free

A place where they could be people they never dreamed they'd be.

My dad's half-Lebanese, my mom is full Lebanese. I'm three-quarters Lebanese. Irish-Lebanese.

Felt good, though, just being what I was.

At our table in the corner by the window, huddled around a flame in a red glass, all of us, body to body to body to body. The touch that proves you're not alone, that someone else is there.

Tattoos are just one more way to identify the body.

To ogromna przyjemno?? by? po stronie mniejszo?ci.

Look. What use is there pretending to be what you are not? You and me and your little brother, we're the only three Indians in a school filled with two thousand white middle-class kids. We can't let them walk all over us.

American means white, and Africanist people struggle to make the term applicable to themselves with ethnicity and hyphen after hyphen after hyphen.

In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate.

Fair enough. We all have our own place. Or should do.

We can't put our faith in anyone but our own people.

That wouldn't include my people. They don't count us, Henry.

A simple way to take the measure of a country is to look at how many want in . . . and how many want out.

Keed, ya ever feel like you were in the circus?" But before Grant could answer, he was startled by Babe's next words. "I do. All the time. It's the circus, and I'm one of the freaks.

I think home can be more than a single place. I think it is wherever you find those that you love. A family." -Eva

Your home is where your family is... Where someone waits for you and thinks about you.