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Quotes About Belong

if the rest of the world could see you today their laughter would bring the sun to its knees and even the flowers would leap from the ground like bulldogs and chase you away to where you belong wherever that is, and who cares where it is as long as it's somewhere away from here.
~ Charles Bukowski
I despise the morning... I am a creature of darkness, whose elements is night and shadow.I belong in the dark with the other sinful creatures.
~ Charlotte Featherstone
Yes, she thought, revenge belongs to God. But justice? That will be mine.
~ Chris Bohjalian
I don't really belong to that world and I don't think anyone's going to miss me. I'm much happier just to write myself out of the script entirely.
~ Phil Collins
We are justified in enforcing good morals, for they belong to all mankind; but we are not justified in enforcing good manners, for good manners always mean our own manners.
~ Gilbert K. Chesterton
I think first thing and the most important thing, for me, is that Boston becomes my musical home, my musical family.
~ Andris Nelsons
I don't belong to a motorcycle club, but I know a lot of guys who do. I ride with some guys who do.
~ Malcolm-Jamal Warner
It is this rattling I believe that affects the second point: our uneasiness with our own feelings of foreignness, our own rapidly fraying sense of belonging. To what do we pay greatest allegiance? Family, language group, culture, country, gender? Religion, race? And if none of these matter, are we urbane, cosmopolitan, or simply lonely? In other words, how do we decide where we belong? What convinces us that we do? Or put another way, what is the matter with foreignness?
~ Toni Morrison
To what do we pay greatest allegiance? Family, language group, culture, country, gender? Religion, race? And if none of these matter, are we urbane, cosmopolitan, or simply lonely? In other words, how do we decide where we belong? What convinces us that we do? Or put another way, what is the matter with foreignness?
~ Toni Morrison
Our uneasiness with our own feelings of foreignness, our own rapidly fraying sense of belonging. To what do we pay greatest allegiance? Family, language group, culture, country, gender? Religion, race? And if none of these matter, are we urbane, cosmopolitan, or simply lonely? In other words, how do we decide where we belong? What convinces us that we do? Or put another way, what is the matter with foreignness?
~ Toni Morrison
This was the summer when for a long time she had not been a member. She belonged to no club and was a member of nothing in the world. Frankie had become an unjoined person who hung around in the doorways, and she was afraid.
~ Carson McCullers
But getting the sinner where justice deemed he belonged was the trick. It required a system. And the system demanded its rules, techniques, manpower, organizations, and loopholes. And the occasional seminar to educate and inform.
~ J.D. Robb
I just umpire. That's what I've done. That's all I can do. I'm one of the fortunate ones on God's earth. I found what God meant for me to do. People ask if I like working home plate best. I just want to be between the white lines. That's where I belong, and I wouldn't have it any other way.
~ Doug Harvey
There is no worse flaw in man's character than that of wanting to belong.
~ David Adams Richards
The place was empty 'cause of the Hanging. I didn't want to stay and—" "And what?" "Get more ahead of the others than I was already." "If you are ahead, the correct thing is to get used to it—not to make yourself into an imbecile. Come, you belong in school.
~ Neal Stephenson
Clare Kendry cared nothing for the race. She only belonged
~ Nella Larsen
Belonging nowhere, no one can tell who he really is. Who one really is depends on what world he belongs to. The secret multitudes who belong to no world, no way of life, no particular time and place, are the truly displaced persons: displaced from their true selves. They are not the disinherited: they are those who have disinherited their own selves.
~ Nelson Algren
I didn't feel like I had a home until I moved to El Paso.
~ Khalid
Properly speaking, he no longer held opinions; he had sympathies. To which party did he belong? To the party of humanity.
~ Victor Hugo
You either belong here,, wild and untamed yourself, or you don't.
~ Kristin Hannah
with the staring lack of empathy that belongs to murderers and small children.
~ Laini Taylor
You belong to this Comanche.
~ Catherine Anderson
This darkness doesn't belong to the night. It belongs to me.
~ Catherine Ryan Hyde
Zarathustra: Do you have words? Do your words belong to you? Giannina: No, my answer is no. I have no property in the dictionary. Words are anonymous like the disenfranchised masses that haven't been weighed - or named - or framed. My words belong to those who don't belong.
~ Giannina Braschi