Quotes About Belong

True belonging doesn't require you to change who you are; it requires you to be who you are.

I didn't realize it then, but looking back, those permission slips to myself were actually an attempt to belong to myself and to no one else.

We may not always have a sense of belonging on the recess playground or at a big, fancy conference, but in that moment we knew that we belonged where it mattered the most—at home.

That's a horrible dream! Major Sanderson cried. It's filled with pain and mutilation and death. I'm sure you had it just to spite me. You know, I'm not even sure you belong in the Army, with a disgusting dream like that.

They had exchanged vows and tokens, sealed their rich compact, solemnized, so far as breathed words and murmured sounds and lighted eyes and clasped hands could do it, their agreement to belong only, and to belong tremendously, to each other.

The intellectual is called on the carpet... Don't you conceal something? You talk a language which is suspect. You don't talk like the rest of us, like the man in the street, but rather like a foreigner who does not belong here. We have to cut you down to size, expose your tricks, purge you.

As a young man, even if I was going to see a play or a film by myself, I didn't feel like I was alone. There was something that was unfolding up there that brought me into it. And I recognised that. For those two hours, it made me feel like I belonged to something really good.

My mother was the kind of person who was very much part of her tribe and very much a satellite of her tribe. She was the girl who left her family at the age of 17 and went to Washington. My mother was orphaned at three and then was brought up by my aunt Goldie. So, yes she belonged, but there was a part of her that didn't.

When I die, my only wish is that Cambodia remain Cambodia and belong to the West. It is over for communism, and I want to stress that.

Even if we all want you here, you don't belong until you decide you do.

One of the dangers in trying to solve riddles is a temptation to force answers where they don't belong because things would look neat and pretty that way.

He said it was better to belong where you don't belong than not to belong where you used to belong, remembering when you used to belong there.

I didn't have just one place where I could say, 'That's my home.'

Labels are actually not to make us understand things better: they are actually to ostracise and discriminate that what does not belong to the majority.

I'd understood how salt water ran through some veins and not in others, like a blood type that identified those who belonged here.

I guess it's not the place I want to escape. It's my place in this place.

Marriage is a public declaration of a man and a woman that they have formed a secret alliance, with the intention to belong to, and share with each other, a mystical estate; mystical exactly in the sense that the real experience cannot be communicated to others, nor explained even to oneself on rational grounds.

All Your Base Are Belong to Us: How Fifty Years of Video Games Conquered Pop Culture, by Harold Goldberg;

You've lived in the city for a long time and need to feel that you have a hometown.

You'll eventually have to realize that you can't spiritualize anything that is not spirit, which means you can't really spiritualize anything in the universe of form. The truly spiritual is only outside of it. That is where you really belong, and will eventually return.

The poets are supposed to liberate the words – not chain them in phrases. Who told the poets they were supposed to think? Poets are meant to sing and to make words sing. Writers don't own their words. Since when do words belong to anybody? 'Your very own words,' indeed! And who are you?

Everyone wants to belong, or be a part of something bigger than themselves, but it's important to follow your heart and be true to yourself in the process.

It meant that she belonged some place. She was a Brooklyn girl with a Brooklyn name and a Brooklyn accent. She didn't want to change into a bit of this and a bit of that.

Azazel has been at High Crag for two days, yet you still have not brought him here to me, where he belongs.