Quotes About Belonging

Even though I grew up as a Sephardic Jew in Brooklyn where we ate Syrian food and went to temple, it was still America.

the seat of the greatest patriotic loyalties is in the stomach. Long after giving up all attachment to the land of his birth, the naturalized American citizen holds fast to the food of his parents.

I know the community mostly for its art and culture... and of course its food, I eat at their restaurants." "They make you feel like taking off your shoes... it feels like home.

Abandon your animosities and make your sons Americans!

I had crossed de line of which I had so long been dreaming. I was free; but dere was no one to welcome me to de land of freedom, I was a stranger in a strange land.

Place is security, space is freedom.

In fashion, there are so many gangs, if you identify too much with one, you get caught - I would lose my freedom.

We both have no home to go back to... so we can go anywhere at all.

I was tired of pretending that I was someone else just to get along with people, just for the sake of having friendships.

Every child deserves a chance at a life filled with love, laughter, friends and family.

I'm back with my own kind of people here now, the bums and drinkers and no goods and it is a fine thing.

How different everything is when you are with the right people!

Friendship is the grand fundamental principle of Mormonism

Pray steal me not, I'm Mrs. Dingley's, Whose heart in this four-footed thing lies.

The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.

Friendship is in the end no more than: " . . . a lie which seeks to make us believe that we are not irremediably alone."

A person who has no friends, lives only half way.

Friendship is not a thing I have ever experienced. Not as a child, and not as I am now.

If I don't have friends then I ain't nothing.

To associate with other like-minded people in small purposeful groups is for the great majority of men and women a source of profound psychological satisfaction.

The particular human chain we're a part of is central to our individual identity.

Stories in families are colossally important. Every family has stories: some funny, some proud, some embarrassing, some shameful. Knowing them is proof of belonging to the family.

Being unusual means you're unique, if others don't accept you for the way you are, they never learn to know you and your heart better.

Being who you are. No matter where you live, what color skin or what religion you have, you're unique & special.