Quotes About Belonging

Family is what works.

Uniquely, he understood what his days with BeeJee &ersenn had been teaching him: he, alone, was the alien.

So many names in this … "place.

The geek of the Earth are a tribe and they are mighty.

the communities into which people are born are wellsprings of the political claims that they recognize, and, in some formulations, even of their identities as individuals. Collective norms and practices constitute individuals as the beings that they are; they are, in Taylor's phrase, the "sources of the self." By this he means to convey not merely that collective norms and practices are historically prior to any given individual; they also supply her life with meaning and value.

Why are you trying so hard to fit in when you were born to stand out?

traveling - it gives you home in thousand strange places, then leaves you a stranger in your own land.

The silver and black may have another home, but the Raiders will always belong to the people of Los Angeles.

South Central is just who I am. Even though I have a nice house, nice family, the rest of my generation is still in South Central L.A. My cousins, my brothers, my sisters, they don't wanna move out.

I wasn't a gangbanger. I never joined a set. Never jumped in. I realized quickly that you don't have to join the gang; you just need to be cool with the leaders of

Saying of the Prophet THE PEOPLE It is the people who are God's family. (Muhammad the Prophet)

Fettered feet in the presence of friends is better than living in a garden with strangers.

The significance of the dwelling is in the dweller.

Pies encadenados en presencia de amigos es mejor que vivir en un jardín con extraños.

Las formas han cambiado a través de los siglos obedeciendo al mundo externo al cual toda forma pertenece.

If we see our relationship to this planet in a wide perspective, one thing is clear: we belong to this planet, not the other way around.

If we see our relationship to this planet in a wide and long perspective, one thing is very clear: we belong to this planet, not the other way around, and the only way we can protect ourselves and thrive is by learning how to live with the whole in harmony.

Being Irish is very much apart of who I am I take it everywhere with me

I have a very long relationship with America. My mother grew up there and I felt to some extent that I partly belong there. I was schooled there briefly for about a year.

You bet I'm a patriot!' I exclaimed. 'It's because I'm a patriot, that I can't bear our country.

Because jazz music is a thing that, as few things do, makes you feel really at home in the world here, as if it's an okay notion to be born a human animal, or so.

Humans are not by nature solitary. They need to connect with other human beings to share dreams and fears, to lean on each other, to enhance each other.

At the same time, traditions and rituals remain essential to the military mystique. They instill a sense of belonging and importance in the lives of young soldiers.

The outsider is not sure who he is. He has found an "I", but it is not his true "I".' His main business is to find his way back to himself.