Quotes About Belonging

I think it's absolutely essential that the people that work for a company need to feel that they're part of something bigger - that it's not just a job.

When you just come into a show that's already established, you feel that they're family, and they have a way of doing things and running things.

I play for my country and I am an established international.

I wrote my first book without being to Ethiopia since I was two years old.

I couldn't be more American if I tried. I was born in Ethiopia, but I was raised and educated as an American.

I love any event in the United States because I treat it like it's my home, my house. And I'm going to protect it.

I am not an Englishman, I was never an Englishman, and I don't ever want to be one. I am a Scotsman! I was a Scotsman and I will always be one.

It's a great club, Everton. You don't just go there to work; you have to be part of the family.

I'm not trying to be like everybody else. I want to be Clemson, and Clemson's not for everybody.

For years, I thought I simply didn't dream. I felt left out. Everybody else had a thing I didn't have.

Boundaries, rulers, and names of nations can change, but the Earth is always our home and our source of life. Earth is the only indelible identity we can have. This is why I am suggesting that we expand our identities beyond the limits of nationality and culture to encompass the only identity that is definite and real by identifying ourselves, first and foremost, as Earth Citizens.

And most importantly, the next time someone asks you "Who are you?" you must answer in this simple way, with sincerity and conviction: "I am an Earth Citizen

if you are connected and one with yourself, even something as massive as the Earth feels as if it belongs to you, something you want to love and care for.

Tomamos lo que nos conviene: lo que el Creador ha puesto en este mundo no es propiedad de nadie, los frutos de la tierra pertenecen a todos los hombres y, si no nos gusta un lugar, nos marchamos a otro.

XXIV. Wurzeln zu schlagen ist nicht immer ein probates Mittel gegen Einsamkeit.

I had to second-guess everything. The classmates who had elected me president—did they really think I was the best in the class, or was I just a novelty object they wanted to play with?

I have to learn to talk like the guys down the Hill. The "cats" down the Hill, that is. I have to be hip.

Me, I'd rather be out in that world than stuck in those closed-up ivy halls that weren't meant to fit me.

TRADITIONS REASSURE US THAT WE BELONG TOGETHER

You're well enough looked after now' says Farouq. 'We are your friends. Don't we care about you? All this bitterness, it's in your own mind. To be accepted as a human being, you must behave like one. The more human you act, the more human you'll be.' He spoils the effect of this decent speech by adding with a smirk, 'Four-foot cunt.

I've found out that I don't belong anywhere anymore, I don't long to be anywhere, but I used to think I had a heart and I belonged in Austria. But one day it all comes to an end, you lose both heart and soul, and now there is something bleeding to death inside of me but I don't know what it is.

She wondered all the same how much they really had to say to one another, given that they had only this city in common and a similar way of talking, the same intonation, perhaps she'd just wanted to believe after that third whiskey on the roof garden at the Hilton that he would give her back something she'd lost, a missing taste, an intonation gone flat, that ghostly feeling of home, though she was no longer at home anywhere.

Appreciation is an excellent thing. It makes what is excellent in others belong to us, as well. – Voltaire

Kissing should be this, an act of intimacy that signals rightness, that prompts an instant internal awareness that says, This is where I belong.