Quotes About Belonging

My father's house was on East 55th Street on 1st and 2nd Avenues. I'm fifth-generation Marino in the East 50s - I live on 57th Street. I can't be more East 50s.

I'm like an old dog, I hate to be run off from home.

My dogs are family dogs.

Only the guys who never made it and will never make it in the U.S. need to put up the front that they don't care about America.

President Donald Trump seems to have made me an alien.

On some level, I think everyone felt like a dork in high school.

Exiles see double, feel double, are double. When exiles see one place, they're also seeing - or looking for - another behind it.

Dover is part of England. It simply can't be part of anywhere else.

I dreamed my whole life of New York being my home.

I adore the fact that when I'm driving home from work, as soon as I hit my neighbourhood, I see people I know.

In America one drop of black ancestry makes you black.

I never dropped my surname.

I am at home in Dublin, more than in any other city.

When you're the only Asian in the room, the last thing you want to do is to point out you're Asian. And be the Asian dude.

Due to my lack of family, I've almost built a family around me of friends that are, for me that is, they mean more to me than my own family.

I'm not sure my own family liked me at Duke.

My mam is Dutch but I'm green.

Economics should not drive you out of the community.

I'm so proud to be in Edmonton.

Growing up, my parents were very much about the Egyptian culture. They never really wanted to assimilate in American culture.

Even though I wasn't born or raised in El Paso, it'll always be a part of me until the day that I die.

I'm kind of like Will Ferrell in the movie 'Elf.'

For years I would sit on the side when my friends swam in the water. There is no feeling worse than that, to be afraid of what people will say about you, or to be embarrassed by who you are and what you are.

I truly have New York embedded in my blood.