Quotes About Belonging

What have we to offer, really, other than who we are and what God has been pouring into our lives? It was not by accident that you were born; it was not by chance that you have the desires you do. The Victorious Trinity has planned on your being here now, "for such a time as this" (Esther 4:14). We need you.

One of the deepest of all human longings is the longing to belong, to be a part of things, to be invited in. We want to be part of the fellowship. Where did that come from?

I was born an American, I live like an American, I will die an American.

Oscar Handlin has said, "Once I thought to write a history of the immigrants in America. Then I discovered that the immigrants were American history. In the same sense we cannot really speak of a particular immigrant contribution to America, because All Americans have been immigrants or the decedents of immigrants, even the Indians as mentioned before, migrated to the American continent. We can only speak of people whose roots in America are older or newer.

A mixture, before the English, of irritation and bafflement, of having this same language, same past, so many same things, and yet not belonging to them any more. Being worse than rootless... speciesless.

You accept that you are English. You don't pretend that you'd rather be French or Italian or something else.

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Golf Club description:] Once it had enough members to sustain itself, it began the obligatory practice of excluding others.

Because of their sacrifice, she had been given the gift of citizenship, a permanent status she had done nothing to earn. They had worked like dogs in a country they were proud of, with the dream of one day belonging. How, exactly, would their removal benefit this great nation of immigrants? It made no sense and seemed unjustly cruel.

We be both of one blood, of one country and in one island.

My prevailing interest has been in the world as a whole, and in the place of a person in a larger setting than one defined by national boundaries.

I told them good night and returned to my room, less lonely and warmed by the brief contact with others like me who felt the need to be reassured that an eye could show something besides suspicion or hate

We don't enjoy giving directions in New Hampshire-we tend to think if you don't know where you're going, you don't belong where you are.

In every life," Dolores had said, "I think there's always a moment when you must decide where you belong.

Small towns may revile you, but they have to keep you-they can't turn you away.

Further along" is fairly specific compared to other New Hampshire forms of directions; we don't enjoy giving directions in New Hampshire—we tend to think that if you don't know where you're going, you don't belong where you are.

What Brother Pepe saw in Edward Bonshaw was a man who looked like he belonged—like a man who had never felt at home, but who'd suddenly found his place in the scheme of things.

We tend to think that if you don't know where you're goin, you don't belong where you are.

You'd better leave your chromosomes at the door.

we don't enjoy giving directions in New Hampshire—we tend to think that if you don't know where you're going, you don't belong where you are. In Canada, we give directions more freely—to anywhere, to anyone who asks.

a school-vacation skier is never the equal to a north-country native.

When you start sleeping somewhere you know will be the last place you'll get to make your home, that's when the future has a certain finality, too.

My becoming a Canadian citizen was part of the plot.

we tend to think that if you don't know where you're going, you don't belong where you are.