Belong Quotes

I just love writing. It's magical, it's somewhere else to go, it's somewhere much more dreadful, somewhere much more exciting. Somewhere I feel I belong, possibly more than in the so-called real world.

Just having the pain of being alive without anything else, whether it's good or bad. There's a lot of serious songs on the record, you know. That song is just about feeling like a fish out of water, feeling like you don't belong on the planet sometimes.

I have a very long relationship with America. My mother grew up there and I felt to some extent that I partly belong there. I was schooled there briefly for about a year.

UNC symbolizes something special. When you get chills you know you belong here.

Sight and touch, being thus increased in capacity, might belong to some species far superior to man; or rather the human species would be far different had all the senses been thus improved.

And the success of the union movement, historically, has always been to benefit all working men and women - not just people who belong to the union.

I think luck falls on not just the brave but also the ones who believe they belong there.

The pure air and dazzling snow belong to things beyond the reach of all personal feeling, almost beyond the reach of life. Yet such things are a part of our life, neither the least noble nor the most terrible.

I have been inspired by Martin Luther King and how he inspired a movement. I have learned that a cause must be organic; if it is to have an impact it must belong to those who join the movement and not those who lead it.

The Democrats in the Senate adopted a resolution, an amendment, saying that there should be no Guantanamo detainees brought into this country. So, more and more, we're finding the American people on one side, the ACLU and the troglodytes from the New York Times on the other, where they belong.

You forget that the fruits belong to all and that the land belongs to no one.

The institutions of the European Union, and the states that belong to this union, each and every one, are paying the price of our failures, hesitations and contradictions. We should each ask ourselves how personally responsible we are.

I started imagining this whole different world. It was a society of musicians, a family I hoped I could belong to one day.

I hate all politics. I don't like either political party. One should not belong to them - one should be an individual, standing in the middle. Anyone that belongs to a party stops thinking.

The good things of prosperity are to be wished; but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.

Either we are all free, or we fail; democracy must belong to all of us.

In America there's no rights for the artist, so whatever films I've made kind of belong to the studio.

I feel connected to that idea of wanting to belong to something, to have a sense of purpose as a man on the planet.

If you start to find that kind of luxury as a normal thing, you don't belong in the real world.

I don't think I'll ever escape the fact that I don't belong anywhere in particular. I've often dreamed about going back to Nigeria, but that's a very romantic notion. It's a hideous country to go to in reality.

I do belong on stage.

I feel that I belong to the 19th century. Some composers' music is very topical. It almost says, 'This is about what I read in newspapers yesterday.' Not mine.

I want my kids to be curious, to be interested in a lot of things, to be confident, and to feel they belong in any number of situations.

Humans are amphibians - half spirit and half animal. As spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time.

It just seems like the whole, overall animation world is trying to go where maybe animation doesn't belong.

I belong to quite a lot of learned societies. We collect firearms and discuss them at dinners and clubs and things.

I told them I belong to the same organizations and clubs Mrs. Roosevelt belongs to, but with a few brave exceptions, I was still unable to do films or television for the next seven years.

My experiences at Princeton have made me far more aware of my 'blackness' than ever before. I have found that at Princeton, no matter how liberal and open-minded some of my white professors and classmates try to be toward me, I sometimes feel like a visitor on campus; as if I really don't belong.

Of all the properties which belong to honorable men, not one is so highly prized as that of character.

When I die, my only wish is that Cambodia remain Cambodia and belong to the West. It is over for communism, and I want to stress that.