Belonging Quotes

"I almost feel like I grew up and was raised in America now, because I'm so comfortable here."

"I remember when I was growing up. My great wish was to understand who I was and how I fit in the world."

"We belong to talking, not what talking is about... Stop talking - and you are out. Silence equals exclusion."

"There's something about home that you just can't find anywhere else in the world."

"I used to go to games events and feel like I was going home."

"Living with the notion that you might never have a permanent spot in the world is really quite a powerful metaphor."

"The ache for home lives in all of us."

"Call it a clan, call it a network, call it a tribe, call it a family: Whatever you call it, whoever you are, you need one."

Jane Howard

"Wherever you go becomes a part of you somehow."

Anita Desai

"There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign."

Robert Louis Stevenson

"Whereas the tourist generally hurries back home at the end of a few weeks or months, the traveler belongs no more to one place than to the next."

Paul Bowles

"I long, as does every human being, to be at home wherever I find myself."

"My heart, the bird of the wilderness, has found its sky in your eyes."

"No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main."

John Donne

"Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another, 'What! You too? I thought I was the only one.'"

"If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other."

Mother Teresa

"The really wonderful thing that happened to me when I was in space was this feeling of belonging to the entire universe."

Mae Jemison

"I want to free them of their fears and make them feel that they can make their own space in the world."

Lady Gaga

"Society is no comfort to one not sociable."

"No one loves his country for its size or eminence, but because it is his own."

Seneca

“To every New Yorker in Kensington and Midwood and Hunts Point, know this: This city is your city, and this democracy is yours too.”

“The ache for home lives in all of us, the safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned.”

“I knew I belonged to the public and to the world, not because I was talented or even beautiful, but because I had never belonged to anything or anyone else.”

“In all our contacts it is probably the sense of being really needed and wanted which gives us the greatest satisfaction and creates the most lasting bond.”

“Home is where you feel at home and are treated well.”