Quotes About Belong

I have sometimes sacrificed freedom in order to belong, but more often I have given up all hope of belonging.

Can love really belong to the demon?

Here I am. Not leaving any more. Home.

Families, real ones, are chairs and tables and the right number of cups, but I had no means of joining one, and no means of dismissing my own.

I am beginning to feel the drunkenness that this agitated, tumultuous life plunges you into. With such a multitude of objects passing before my eyes, I'm getting dizzy. Of all the things that strike me, there is none that holds my heart, yet all of them together disturb my feelings, so that I forget what I am and who I belong to.

But I also hoped that [she] had chosen California because she thought that was her true home, the place where she really belonged, where it was always warm and you could dance in the rain, pick grapes right off the vines, and sleep outside at night under the stars.

I firmly believe that the best way to stimulate our economy and create jobs is to let hard-working Americans keep more of their money - after all, the money belongs to them, not to Washington.

To the gods belong power, and to us the work of our hands.

My motivation is, in part, a bit of angst that comes from feeling like I don't belong, that our generation doesn't belong.

I had never had a deep sense of belonging anywhere. I always felt I was an outsider.

I never felt like an outsider in the industry.

I don't think I'm an outsider at all.

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.

As a culture worker who belongs to an oppressed people my job is to make revolution irresistible.

It is not good to be so much away from one's own people. It is the sort of thing known to make one strange.

Attempts at imitation would put the emphasis where it didn't belong. The goal was to improve the lives of others, not oneself.

the great theater of belonging.

To belong to one was to deny himself the privilege of belonging to all.

Is art really the priesthood that demands the pure in heart who belong to it wholly?

What if criticism is a science as well as an art? Not a pure or exact science, of course, but these phrases belong to a nineteenth-century cosmology which is no longer with us.

But you're like me," he says. "An outsider. Different. A freak. We're both weird, which is why we get along.

There is no worse flaw in man's character than that of wanting to belong.

TCK builds relationships to all of the cultures, while not having full ownership in any. Although elements from each culture are assimilated into the TCK's life experience, the sense of belonging is in relationship to others of similar background.

The worst injury is feeling you don't belong so much to you—