Quotes About Belonging

For me, London is and always will be home.

Prosperity knits a man to the world. He thinks he's 'finding his place in it,' while really it is finding its place in him.

I gotta say, it feel good coming back home to the projects. Where I belong.

In the front yard lives the oldest thing around, a white oak That I used to say is my love for the world, That I now would just call love as it is. Belonging to nobody, no metaphor, the very.

Homesickness springs from the isolation of the soul from its surroundings.

Isn't it nice that people who prefer Los Angeles to San Francisco live there?

Most of the ancestors that I can trace were born here in the United States of America. And then it goes back to slavery. And I'm sure my ancestors go all the way back to Africa, but I feel more of an affinity for America than I do for Africa. I'm a black man in America.

One never reaches home,' she said. 'But where paths that have an affinity for each other intersect, the whole world looks like home, for a time.

One never reaches home, but wherever friendly paths intersect the whole world looks like home for a time.

If only the right person would have to leave, everyone else would be able to stay in the country.

Some say that over time homesickness loses its specific content, that it starts to smolder and only then becomes all-consuming, because it's no longer focused on a concrete home.

Nothing had anything to do with me. I was locked up inside myself and evicted from myself. I didn't belong to them and I was missing me.

Todo lo que tengo lo llevo conmigo. O: todo lo mío lo llevo conmigo. He llevado todo lo que tenía. No era mío. Era o algo destinado a otras finalidades o de otra persona. […] Llevo un equipaje de silencio. Me he rodeado de un silencio tan hondo y duradero que nunca acierto a abrirme con las palabras. Cuando hablo, solamente me cierro de otra manera.

They have good streets here, but everything's so spread out. I am not used to asphalt, it makes my feet hurt, and my brain. I get as tired here in a day as I do back home in a year. That's not home, other people live there now, I wrote to Mother. Home is where you are now... And Mother wrote back to me: How would you know where home is? The place where Toni the clockmaker tends the graves, that's home.

Voor de controleurs van de heimat en de garandeerders van het wij-gevoel geldt maar één ding : het moet zijn zoals het altijd is geweest, opdat het zo blijft.

Better to be at home in room and garden with ugly people than belong to strangers.

When you become a great man, you meet kinsfolk you never knew you had.

appurtenances

She had to go," said Rose. "It was because of her angel," said Indigo. "And because of Granddad," added Caddy. "And because of her nose stud." "And because her name isn't on the color chart." "She's lonely," said Rose. "That's why.

In my family, we were Americans, we were Republicans and we were Methodists.

I don't want...to run away by myself... because no matter what...I'd rather be together with everyone...

Someone who could shed tears for their friends... could never be rejected from Fairy Tail!

I had always regarded Manhattan the way an orphan might think of the mother who had laid him on the doorstep of a mosque: it meant nothing to me but also everything.

Nothing is more acceptable than what we are born into.