Quotes About Belonging

Laughter filled the line, the sound big and warm and primal. "We are family now, Bowen Knight!

He also wanted her to grow up in a united world, not a divided one. Naya should never have to choose between the two sides of her heritage.

Vaughn had never been this content. It was as if a missing part of him had come home, a part of that he'd been functionning without but, now that he's found it, the loss of which he'd never survive. Faith was inside him, held in the core of his animal heart, protected by every ounce of strength he had.

Naasir wasn't dark inside . . . but he was alone. The only one of his kind in the entire world. He had friends, had family, but he had no one who was like him. Mating wouldn't change that, but it would give him a person who belonged to him just as much as he belonged to her. And maybe one day, they'd have a cub and there would be another like him in the world.

A Raggy Dog, a Shaggy Dog In

We do not know a planet that is home. We are always home. It is our job to see and map and learn languages and stories and carry them from place to place.

I told Mama and Savannah about Ruben's proposal. That got us to talking about marriage and we laughed and cried some, and missed Papa, and it felt good to belong to each other. I don't feel as lonely today as I have in months. At least I know there are other women around me.

Home at last, and my little ranch house looks mighty plain, but it is home to me and I am glad to see it.

Sometimes I feel like a tree on a hill, at the place where all the wind blows and the hail hits the hardest. All the people I love are down the side aways, sheltered under a great rock, and I am out of the fold, standing alone in the sun and the snow. I feel like I am not part of the rest somehow, although they welcome me and are kind. I see my family as they sit together and it is like they have a certain way between them that is beyond me. I wonder if other folks ever feel included yet alone.

I think people have an instinct for a family. You look until you find a mother, a father, a sister, a brother. They don't have to be blood relatives. They just have to love you. And when you find them, you don't have to look anymore.

it was true i'd never consciously thought about being gay... even when i was little, i'd often felt as if i didn't quite fit in with most of the people around me... why when i imagined living with someone someday, permanently i mean, that person was always female.

En alguna parte tiene que haber algún sitio donde se esté bien. Tiene que haberlo.

Y supe que querría hacer eso eternamente: estar de pie en cocinas mientras observaba a Annie alimentar gatos. En cocinas que fueran nuestras, con gatos que fueran nuestros

I'm yours, Savoie. I always have been. Take me, claim me. Know again in your heart and mind that we're one in all things.

We find hope in the ancestry of Jesus that no matter what we've done or where we come from, we too can be included in Jesus' family. Jesus does not look for people who are perfect and have never failed or made mistakes to be in his family. Instead, he is drawn toward people who recognize their failures and see their need for him.

Takes more than beer in your blood to take the English out of you.

Ce sentiment de n'appartenir à aucun groupe politique, professionnel ou culturel, de n'être liée à aucune communauté idéologique, religieuse ou intellectuelle où il soit possible de se reconnaître en d'autres, des semblables qui puissent entendre et faire entendre un jugement équitable, suivant des règles acceptées par tous, c'est cela qui me manque et me manquera toujours telle que je suis.

Parce que très certainement nous avons toujours connu ce sentiment auquel nous avons donné le nom d'exil. Le sentiment d'être dedans/dehors, d'appartenir sans appartenir.

People in exile are rich -- rich with the accumulated sum of their contradictory identities.

A person who decides, voluntarily, as an adult, unconstrained by outside circumstances, to leave her native land and adopt a hitherto unfamiliar language and culture, has to face the fact that for the rest of her life she will be involved in theatre, imitation, make-believe.

No, I stayed home. And yet, in one way or another -- by way of telephone conversations, letters, photographs, or simply memories -- all of these worlds were part of my day today.

When you think about it, there's a whole novel behind the voice of a Haitian in Montreal, a German in Paris, a Laotian in Chicago...

The tall tales we unthinkingly absorb when young somehow remain within; the result is a narrowly conceived sense of national belonging productive of the most uncompromising of satisfying myths: "American exceptionalism." We are unique and different, and the absence of class is one of our hallmarks.

According to scholars, religions can be boiled down to the three Bs, "behaving," "believing," and "belonging," but I, like many American Jews, don't do so good on these. Several generations ago Jews "behaved" more like Jews, or at least they would perform or refrain from certain behaviors because they were Jews.