Quotes About Belonging

Its been nearly 1.5 years since the last PLUS 8 record, but it seemed fitting that this record in particular, made by a skinny white kid from Canada, became part of the labels collection and history.

Young people are at risk of being disinherited from their community if that community lacks the courage and confidence to teach its history.

We've gone through the names—Negro, African American, African, Black. For me that's an indication of a people still trying to find their identity. Who determines what is black?

A name is precious; it carries inside it a language, a history, a set of traditions, a particular way of looking at the world. Losing it meant losing my ties to all those things too.

I am not so different in my history of abandonment from anyone else after all. We have all been split away from the earth, each other, ourselves.

There's not much place for the loyalists - especially the loyalists who left - in standard American history.

To be Jewish is to be specifically identified with a history. And if you're not aware of that when you're a child, the whole tradition is lost.

I realized that part of that anger was because I didn't know who I was and where I came from. I didn't know my history.

What kind of people do we wish to become, and how do we know an American when we see one? Is it possible to pursue a common purpose without a common history or a standard text?

Everybody should be able to choose according to his own values and history, within a European civilization that we all belong to.

I do consider myself part of black history.

The fact that our heart yearns for something Earth can't supply is proof that Heaven must be our home.

Home is not where you were born; home is where all your attempts to escape cease.

Church is not an organization you join; it is a family where you belong, a home where you are loved and a hospital where you find healing.

I have learned and dismantled all the words in order to draw from them a single word: Home.

The wise man belongs to all countries, for the home of a great soul is the whole world.

Country roads, take me home, to the place I belong

I missed my home - like the physicality of my home, I missed my friends and my family mostly and just hanging out and being in your home country - culturally it feels right and that is what I miss.

Where is home? Home is where the heart can laugh without shyness. Home is where the heart's tears can dry at their own pace.

Home is not where you live but where they understand you.

A house is not a home until it has a dog.

I could never leave my home.... It inspires me a lot.

Home is the nicest word there is.

The weakness of so many modern Christians is that they feel too much at home in the world