Belonging Quotes

I firmly believe that any good journalist must essentially be temperamentally an outsider. I don't think full sense of belonging and security is conducive to creativity.

New York is essentially national in interest, position, pursuits. No one thinks of the place as belonging to a particular state, but to the United States.

I have ever regarded the freedom of religious opinions and worship as equally belonging to every sect.

Remember always, everyone has a place of perfect belonging, and if they leave that place without permission, sometimes they must be returned.

I think the new technologies have become pervasive in our society, such as cellphones and the internet, and they've insidiously affected our personal sense of space and belonging.

To have a job you can count on as an actor is so rare, whether that means belonging to a regional theater company or being on TV.

A man may be capable, as Jack Ketch's wife said of his servant, of a plain piece of work, a bare hanging; but to makea malefactordiesweetly was only belonging toher husband.

Attending church is one thing, belonging is another.

She would do anything, anything to belong to his son after a lifetime of belonging to no one at all.

My hope is that my personal testimony can help in some way to not only advance the dialogue and approve Referendum 74, but also to help shape a culture of belonging in which ALL people are equal.

If we attach more importance to what other people believe than to what we know to be true - if we value belonging over being - we will not attain authenticity.

I always see America as really belonging to the Native Americans. Even though I'm American, I still feel like a visitor in my own country.

The climate is a common good, belonging to all and meant for all.

One would think that plants belonging to the same genus would always produce identical or at least similar oils. But this is by no means so.

We will live with racism for ever. But senses of self, senses of belonging, senses of us and of others? Those are up for grabs.

A woman in a single state may be happy and may be miserable; but most happy, most miserable, these are epithets belonging to a wife.

God is not related to creatures as though belonging to a different "genus," but as transcending every "genus," and as the principle of all "genera.

In spite of all temptations of belonging to many nations, I've remained an Indian.

What's so great about making television is that it's a collaborative beast. It's created by a great many hands belonging to a great many people.

In the referendum - which was still decided to take place by the Crimea's old parliament - the majority of citizens voted for belonging to Russia. This is democracy, the people's will.

So it is that the life force may take possession of a man-- so that in the end he may be possessed by something greater, no longer at all belonging to himself.

The greatest reverses of fortune are the most easily borne from a sort of dignity belonging to them.

Men are now proud of belonging to a conquering nation, and without a murmur they lay down their persons and their wealth, if by so doing they may fend off subjection.

Our home is a belonging place.

I didn't just see a child in my dreams—I felt it in my heart.

Thus bound together, they sheltered the child from the cold, dark night, enveloping him in warmth.

Helping someone feel they belong is a magic all its own.

Every man, woman, and child on this earth is a wandering pilgrim in his or her own way—each searching for a belonging place. That sense of belonging is found only as we care for one another.

You're imperfect, and you're wired for struggle, but you are worthy of love and belonging.

Sometimes something that you've been asking forIt's just something that you could not see before. For it was something that made you belong, And that was there the whole time all along.

The only thing worse than not knowing where she belonged...was knowing where she didn't.

Before, I wanted to say: "I found love!" But now, I want to say: "I found a person. And he belongs to me and I belong to him.

Most of us lead far more meaningful lives than we know. Often finding meaning is not about doing things differently

The fundamental emotional need of every child is being-with.

Life is energy and, as such, it belongs to all, reaches all, and blesses all.

To belong somewhere. That was something much more important than belonging to someone. Now, he used to think to himself that maybe he took too serious that 'mission' of belonging somewhere.

If I exist, then surely there must be someone else out there like me.

And I decided it really was true after all. You only really need two people to believe in the same thing, to feel as though you just might belong.

I know what it's like not to have friends. People need friends. Life's not much fun without them.

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

Art is my cure to all this madness, sadness and loss of belonging in the world & through it I'll walk myself home.

Especially at a time when one's life was new, roots helped.

I've never been somewhere I belonged, but there are places where I think I could be happy. Like San Francisco. Well, do art museums count? Because I feel like I belong in them.

The river of my village doesn’t make you think about anything.When you’re at its bank you’re only at its bank.

When insecurity starts to rub off on you, you begin to lose a sense of belonging.

How shall I ever learn who I am when there is so much of me that belongs to someone else?

Healthy boys grow into healthy men.

According to most studies on the subject, boys who grow up without fathers grow up at a disadvantage.

Teaching a boy to be a man is the primary job of a father.

There’s a wound most troubled boys share, which, at its core, comes from the feeling that they don’t have their father’s unconditional love.