Quotes about Belonging to Place

Young people need their own private places which mothers don't belong to, even if they want mother all around the edge of that. Votes: 2

That was my original dream, anyway, to be on stage. I think the stage is an actor's place because actors, it belongs to you. Votes: 2

When people are struggling, that's a painful place to be in, to not know who you are and where you belong and what you desire. Votes: 2

I live on the same block where I grew up. We belong to the same parish where I was baptized. Janesville is that kind of place. Votes: 2

I have always been a singer/songwriter, and I was pushed in places I didn't want to do, like pop or top forty. I don't belong there. Votes: 2

We talk about heaven being so far away. It is within speaking distance to those who belong there. Heaven is a prepared place for a prepared people. Votes: 2

The basic thing with adventure medicine or extreme medicine is that you are going to places where humans don't belong and people will certainly get into trouble. Votes: 2

Brazil is where I belong, the place that feels like home. They love their family, their country and God, and are not afraid to let anybody know it. Votes: 2

When you get to a place where you understand that love and belonging, your worthiness, is a birthright and not something you have to earn, anything is possible. Votes: 2

As Plotinus tells us, we elected the body, the parents, the place, and the circumstances that suited the soul and that, as the myth says, belongs to its necessity. Votes: 2

I do belong to Jersey. There's no doubt about that in my mind. They have been so loyal and so good to me; how could I possibly belong any place else? Votes: 2

A place belongs forever to whoever claims it hardest, remembers it most obsessively, wrenches it from itself, shapes it, renders it, loves it so radically that he remakes it in his own image. Votes: 2

Kolkata is a musical city. What I like about people here is the lack of diplomacy. Some of the best Indian classical musicians belong to this place. Kolkatans do not go by fashion, but by passion. Votes: 2

There are some songs that don't belong to The Animals that I refuse to give in to and not do. I enjoy singing other people's songs, you know. That's why they're written in the first place. Votes: 2

If the sad truth be known, writers, being the misfits we are, probably ought not to belong to families in the first place. We simply are too self-interested, though we may excuse the flaw by calling it 'focused.' Votes: 2

Gang violence in America is not a sudden problem. It has been a part of urban life for years, offering an aggressive definition and identity to those seeking a place to belong in the chaos of large metropolitan areas. Votes: 2

I found my place when I moved to London, where I chose to live, making my own tribe who were all from different backgrounds and places. The class thing is very dominant there, but in the cultural cross-fertilization, I felt a sense of belonging. Votes: 2

Picasso is what is going to happen and what is happening; he is posterity and archaic time, the distant ancestor and our next-door neighbor. Speed permits him to be two places at once, to belong to all the centuries without letting go of the here and now. Votes: 2

There is something uniquely depressing about the fact that the National Portrait Gallery's version of the Barack Obama 'Hope' poster previously belonged to a pair of lobbyists. Depressing because Mr. Obama's Washington was not supposed to be the lobbyists' Washington, the place we learned to despise during the last administration. Votes: 2

I think I've grown up in a mixed environment, and maybe a lot of the time I haven't really belonged anywhere in the way I've dreamt of belonging to, you know, living on the street and playing to all the kids on the street, growing up together. I suppose 'Raw Like Sushi' was a place where all of those things could come together. Votes: 2

Those who bless and serve life find a place of belonging and strength, a refuge. Votes: 0

Among the gifts of serving others, then, is that we ourselves find our place of belonging. Votes: 0

Remember always, everyone has a place of perfect belonging, and if they leave that place without permission, sometimes they must be returned. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Lowell is my home. It is where I drew my first breath. It is where I will always derive a sense of place and a sense of belonging Votes: 0

When you get to a place where you understand that love and belonging, your worthiness, is a birthright and not something you have to earn, anything is possible. Votes: 0

When you get to a place where you understand that love and belonging, your worthiness, is a birthright and not something you have to earn, anything is possible. Votes: 0