Quotes About Belonging

I felt different born into a family with two sisters who are blonde and blue-eyed, with me being the only brunette.

I used to pretend that I was just passing through this family on my way to my real one.

As children we recognized that we belonged to an unusual, even exceptional, family, but the effect was different on each of us.

Motor racing is like one big family, ultimately, and when you come back to it, that's really what it feels like.

My family were from Jamaica.

I got born in the wrong family.

The fans and supporters are also part of the Olympic family.

Nothing counts so much as family, the rest are just strangers. (as Nicholas Earpp in Wyatt Earp, 1994)

The soldier had stamped my passport FAMILY in heavy black capital letters and I checked it now for reassurance and because I liked how fierce the word looked

I wanted only a familiar voice, someone who knew me. Not some earlier, larval version of myself. . .

What is family? They were the people who claimed you. In good, in bad, in parts or in whole, they were the ones who showed up, who stayed there, regardless.

Pack is for comfort when you hurt, I thought, putting my head back down. And for the first time in a long time, maybe the first time ever, I appreciated being a part of one.

Community is like a big family.

In my family, we were Americans, we were Republicans and we were Methodists.

Family is the one thing that is definitely not disposable.

Country radio is much more like a family than any other group of people that I've met.

The cool thing for me about moving to New York was that I got to create a new family.

You are part of our Great British family.

The biggest family in the world is football, because football has more associate - and FIFA, for example - has more associates than UNESCO.

Maybe that's all that family really is, a group of people who all miss the same imaginary place.

Both my parents are Scottish, and although I grew up in Canada after moving over, all of my family are proud to be Scots.

Family is so important. Friends are so important. You need that connection.

All I wanted to do was please my adopted family.

What I found interesting is that it's human nature to have a family.