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Quotes About Belong

I'm a real genre jumper, but all good music belongs to the same family. I love Dave Sitek, a producer I've been working with a lot since I moved to L.A. He will change the game.
~ Erik Hassle
The agents of Evil were so much more conspicuous in their activities that it seemed the whole world must surely belong to them.
~ Robert Davis
again, but he missed his flight out. I don't have to ask him why he missed his plane. I know why. He's scared to go home. He doesn't feel like he belongs there anymore. He belongs here. He has a job here. What's he going to do at home, without a leg?
~ Robert Dugoni
The monster does not need the hero. it is the hero who needs him for his very existence. When the hero confronts the monster, he has yet neither power nor knowledge, the monster is his secret father who will invest him with a power and knowledge that can belong to one man only, and that only the monster can give.
~ Roberto Calasso
Myth and utopia: the origins have belonged, the future will belong to the subjects in whom there is something feminine.
~ Roland Barthes
The pursuit of knowledge for its own sake, an almost fanatical love of justice and the desire for personal independence -- these are the features of the Jewish tradition which make me thank my stars that I belong to it.
~ Albert Einstein
Perhaps one day she would find a place where she would stay. That would be good. To know that the place you were in was your own place—where you should be.
~ Alexander McCall Smith
We belonged nowhere here; we belonged nowhere else.
~ Alexandra Fuller
And the world is where we belong, all of it.
~ Alexandra Ripley
It was awful to have no one belonging to you, and to belong to no one.
~ Dorothy Whipple
Stay because you want to be here. Stay because we would miss you. And stay because you can belong in more than one place, and one of your places is with us.
~ Cynthia Lord
Baltimore is warm but pleasant... I belong here, where everything is civilized and gay and rotted and polite.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
That is my morality or my metaphysics or me myself: a passer-by in everything, even my own soul. I belong to nothing, I desire nothing, I am nothing except an abstract centre of impersonal sensations, a sentient mirror fallen from the wall but still turned to reflect the diversity of the world.
~ Fernando Pessoa
It was in a certain sense home – the place, that is, where one doesn't feel.
~ Fernando Pessoa
Who included me among the ranks of the human race?
~ Joseph Brodsky
I feel most at home in the United States, not because it is intrinsically a more interesting country, but because no one really belongs there any more than I do. We are all there together in its wholly excellent vacuum.
~ Wyndham Lewis
Since the beginning of the internet era, it has been pretty widely accepted that when you join an online service, whatever data you put into it belongs to you.
~ Daniel Lyons
At Yves Saint Laurent, I felt like the son-in-law - like I was part of the family, but not quite. When I was fired, I felt like the widow.
~ Alber Elbaz
One of my rules about writing exercises is you never are allowed to put them in your book because it's just too tempting. You try to shoehorn things that don't belong.
~ Gillian Flynn
In 1988, King Hussein of Jordan said that it doesn't take any connection any more to those territories, and he would like to split from those territories. So according to the international law, it doesn't belong to anyone.
~ Silvan Shalom
People belong wherever they feel good. It can be a lot of different places. For a lot of different reasons.
~ Robyn Carr
After all, beneath the surface of it, isn't that what we're all looking for? We may say we're looking for love, following dreams, chasing the dollar, but aren't we just looking for a place where we belong? A place where our thoughts, feelings, and fears are understood?
~ Lisa Unger
Veterinarian, said Armpit. That's right, said Mr. Pendanski. He could work in a zoo, said Zigzag. He belongs in the zoo, said Squid.
~ Louis Sachar
As slaves to your obsessions, we know what it feels like to be impressed and bound. But at the same time we understand that thoughts like these are just idle tropes, fantasies we spin to while away the hours. Fantasies, being something that we books excel at. The real stories—the ones that happen—belong to you.
~ Ruth Ozeki