Quotes About Belonging

consumed by the metastasizing cancer called assimilation and susceptible to the hypochondria of exile.

He who has no house of his own is everywhere at home.

Home is where you live your life and build your memories.

Loneliness is worse but the worst kind of loneliness is when you are in a crowd of people.

The land where the stones know you is worth more than the land where the people know you.

The people who live everywhere are the same as those who live nowhere.

The person with no friends is not alone, he is very alone.

The place where you are happy is better than the place you were born.

If you are different from the rest of the flock, they bite you

Agora, uma das causas pelas quais eu estou agora deslocado – e por que durante tantos anos estive deslocado – é simplesmente porque tenho ideias diferentes das desses senhores que dão cargos àqueles que pensam como eles.

Rappard said to me, "A human being is not a lump of peat, since a human being cannot bear being flung into a loft to be forgotten there." And he pointed out that he considered it a great misfortune for me not to be able to live at home. Do please give that some thought.

As to this region here, I know the country and the people too well and love them too much to be positively leaving them for good. I shall try to rent a room where I can put my things, and shall be safe then, in case I want to leave Antwerp for a time or if I get homesick for the country.

When asked by an anthropologist what the Indians called America before the white man came, an Indian said simply, "Ours."

Tribalism is the strongest force at work in the world today.

What Planet Are You From?

Thirty days I've been a passenger at the school. I want to live here, I want to polish my shoes in the shoe room.

Delhi means everything to me. This city has given me everything, and I love it.

As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world.

As a woman I have no country. As a woman I want no country. As a woman, my country is the whole world.

Entre la montre Kitty et le bracelet clouté, elle n'avait pas encore choisi son camp.

I am here a stranger to all feasts but those of blood.

All I had to do was get old enough and New York would be mine.

My parents were French and Irish and our family even has Spanish blood-and I do so love the United States and consider myself part American.

Appreciation is a wonderful thing: It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.