Quotes About Belonging

But I tried to feel I was part of the demonstration; sadly, I didn't feel I was a part of it—I didn't feel I was part of anything. I had a 4-F deferment; I would never have to go to war, or to Canada. By the simple act of removing the first two joints of my right index finger, Owen Meany had enabled me to feel completely detached from my generation.

Non vi sono scuse per la crudeltà, ma - in un orfanotrofio - forse si è obbligati a negare amore; se non riesce a negare amore, a trattenerti dall'amare, creerai un orfanotrofio che nessun orfano lascerà volentieri. Creerai un Homer Wells: cioè un vero orfano, dato che la sua casa sarà sempre a St. Clouds.

No, sir. But even if they are, I'm inclined to go with them." "For God's sake, man—why?" The foreman peered at Cooper as if he were callow, not very bright. "South Carolina is my home. Those men speak up for it. No one else does, Mr. Main.

We must go home to be happy, and our home is not in this world. Here we have nothing to do but our duty.

Reading makes immigrants of us all. It takes us away from home, but, most important, it finds homes for us everywhere.

I alone was a dream, a figment which had never really touched anything. I felt that I was not, never had been and never would be a living part of this overpoweringly solid and deeply meaningful world around me.

Like all old, good schools, Devon did not stand isolated behind walls and gates but emerged naturally from the town which had produced it. So there was no sudden moment of encounter as I approached it; the houses along Gilman Street began to look more defensive, which meant that I was near the school, and then more exhausted, which meant that I was in it.

Sentivo che non ero, non ero mai stato e non sarei mai stato una parte vivente di questo mondo straordinariamente solido e profondamente significativo che mi circonda.

I've never really been wanted.

I used to think it was mere homesickness, then I started getting it at home.

I never felt Irish. I always felt, 'I'm English, this is where I come from, and that's that.' Because you'd be reminded of that when you went to Ireland: 'Ye're not Oirish!' the locals would say. So it was like, 'Bloody hell, shot by both sides here.' I still love that Magazine song – so relevant to me, those lyrics.

School is about two parts ABCs to fifty parts Where Do I Stand in the Great Pecking Order of Humankind.

I'm 100 percent Jewish by blood, but by education I'm nothing. By affiliation I'm nothing.

I am Welsh by birth, English by education, and European by nature.

U2 is an original species... there are colours and feelings and emotional terrain that we occupy that is ours and ours alone.

Delhi is my emotional home. I still dream of owning a home there.

I think a lot of us go through a period where we feel like outsiders, and deal with that by wishing we were insiders. So that was the emotional core of American Born Chinese.

I don't like China. Even today, I still feel I have no emotional relations with this place.

Homes-the very idea of homeownership-evoke a strong emotional reaction in all of us.

You can take the boy out of England, but you can't take England out of the boy. And ummm, yes, I feel a huge emotional attachment to England.

Where the earth is, we are.

In losing stewardship we lose fellowship; we become outcasts from the great neighborhood of creation.

We sit here, very different each from the other, until the passion arrives to give us our equality, to make us part of the play, to make the play part of us.

She finally said: 'I want to provide you with the opportunity to be free to make a choice of belonging with someone, but never to someone else'.