Belonging Quotes

At this late hour a wagon has been procured, and I have had it filled with plate and the most valuable portable articles, belonging to the house.

The power of perpetuating our property in our families is one of the most valuable and interesting circumstances belonging to it, and that which tends the most to the perpetuation of society itself.

To a man utterly without a sense of belonging, mere life is all that matters. It is the only reality in an eternity of nothingness, and he clings to it with shameless despair.

Made me feel ashamed of belonging to these overpowering, technical superior countries fighting against what seemed to me quite defenseless people.

I think the sense of belonging does give you a certain amount of mental satisfaction.

It is almost impossible to convince people who are under the influence of ideological bigotry that whose whom they regard as belonging to the enemy species are human.

I think I had a shyness about me, I think I discovered acting as a way to break out of that and as a way of belonging, a sense of being special.

The simple faith in progress is not a conviction belonging to strength, but one belonging to acquiescence and hence to weakness.

Those who bless and serve life find a place of belonging and strength, a refuge.

An expectation is a future object, recognised as belonging to me.

If I owned Gideon, he possessed me. I couldn’t imagine belonging to anyone else.

The fact that I haven't been married might qualify me as belonging in the nutty category to a lot of women.

I feel sorry for anyone who is in a place where he feels strange and stupid.

I been with strangers all day and they treated me like family. I come in here to family and you treat me like a stranger.

You can say that literature is about topics like love, death, and all that, but I think there is only one topic that applies to all literature and that is belonging.

PREHISTORIC, adj. Belonging to an early period and a museum. Antedating the art and practice of perpetuating falsehood.

If we want to fully experience love and belonging, we must believe that we are worthy of love and belonging.

Business is about belonging which means inclusion is the new black.

When I meet a new person, I am on the lookout for signs of what he or she is loyal to. It is a preliminary clue to the sense of belonging, and hence of his or her humanity.

The sense of belonging is one of the great gifts men get in battle.

Tolerance is the only thing that will enable persons belonging to different religions to live as good neighbours and friends.

Normal! He thought. Normal! I don't want things to be normal. Normal is always being left out, never belonging.

Vulnerability is the core of shame and fear and our struggle for worthiness, but it appears that it's also the birthplace of joy, of creativity, of belonging, of love.

The herd instinct is the new chic! It's like belonging to a club!

There is a reason the word belonging has a synonym for want at its center; it is the human condition.

The confidence that God is mindful of the individual is of tremendous value in dealing with the disease of fear, for it gives us a sense of worth, of belonging, and of at homeness in the universe.

Stop going to church everywhere and start belonging to church somewhere.

I've never written a song about DNA or anything that I work on. But I just think that DIY aspect, and the creativity and the belonging and acceptance is what drew me in.

Our Christian identity is belonging to a people: the Church. Without the Church we are not Christians.

Zazen is better than a home. Zazen is a home that you can't ever lose.

Home's where you go when you run out of homes.

You could just tell when a person belonged somewhere. That is something you can't fake, no matter how hard you try

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.

Pack is for comfort when you hurt, I thought, putting my head back down. And for the first time in a long time, maybe the first time ever, I appreciated being a part of one.

The power confided in me will be used to hold, occupy and possess the property and places belonging to the government, and to collect the duties and imposts.

I never had secure, belonging feelings with this society [in China].

Each of us is born into our own mysteries but the mystery of another might just take us in and embrace us. And then what a sense of homecoming, of belonging!

Belonging to humanity is a great thing for us, and I think the schools can do it. So I think we can look after the quality of education on the school even as we expand the availability of schooling.

QUOTIENT, n. A number showing how many times a sum of money belonging to one person is contained in the pocket of another - usually about as many times as it can be got there.

mine, adj. Belonging to me if I can hold or seize it.

In any attempt to bridge the domains of experience belonging to the spiritual and physical sides of nature, time occupies the key position.

The [film] business is run by men, and they're basically interested in their own species, and they're not so interested in women belonging to the human race.

She had borne so long the cruelty of belonging to him and not being claimed by him.

We're straying from the path of salvation because we remember that we once belonged to the world and were content in that belonging.

I'm felt I was writing about love and desire and community and belonging and grief and a whole host of other issues. But race is never far from the surface.

When I was a young artist, I liked and was interested in belonging to the mainstream comics group. I didnt introduce myself as an author, but only as a designer.

There's something about New York. You can get a nice feeling of belonging as a writer here. It's probably the best city on Earth like that. I miss the wisecracking of New York.

The euro will raise the citizens' awareness of their belonging to one Europe more than any other integration step to date.

Maybe the definition of home is the place where you are never forgiven. So you may always belong there, bound by guilt. And maybe the cost of belonging is worth it.

The great #‎ conversion called for by Jesus is to move from belonging to the world to belonging to God.