Belonging Quotes

I am involved in a freedom ride protesting the loss of the minority rights belonging to the few remaining earthbound stars. All we demanded was our right to twinkle.
Marilyn Monroe

Freedom, Stars, Few

Positive feelings come from being honest about yourself and accepting your personality, and physical characteristics, warts and all; and, from belonging to a family that accepts you without question.
Willard Scott

Family, Positive, Yourself

We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with love and respect.
Aldo Leopold

Love, Respect, May

Hypocrisy is the essence of snobbery, but all snobbery is about the problem of belonging.
Alexander Theroux

Problem, Hypocrisy, Essence

We are driven by five genetic needs: survival, love and belonging, power, freedom, and fun.
William Glasser

Love, Power, Freedom

No house should ever be on a hill or on anything. It should be of the hill. Belonging to it. Hill and house should live together each the happier for the other.
Frank Lloyd Wright

Live, Together, House

The feeling of not belonging, of not being entirely worthy, of being sometimes hostage to your own sensibilities. Those things speak to me very personally.
Anthony Minghella

Feeling, Sometimes, Speak

See the things you want as already yours. Think of them as yours, as belonging to you, as already in your possession.
Robert Collier

Yours, Possession

By building relations we create a source of love and personal pride and belonging that makes living in a chaotic world easier.
Susan Lieberman

Love, Living, Pride

It is that, but really, it's about how we don't recognise the little things in life, or appreciate the little things in life like belonging. A sense of belonging is a big thing today.
James Caan

Life, Today, Big

I'm trying to make a case for those people who don't have a sense of belonging that they should have, that there is something really worthwhile in having a sense of belonging, and recasting and looking at our modern history.
Billy Bragg

History, Trying, Sense

In thinking about religion and society in the 21st century, we should broaden the conversation about faith from doctrinal debates to the larger question of how it might inspire us to strengthen the bonds of belonging that redeem us from our solitude, helping us to construct together a gracious and generous social order.
Jonathan Sacks

Faith, Religion, Society

People enjoy the interaction on the Internet, and the feeling of belonging to a group that does something interesting: that's how some software projects are born.
Linus Torvalds

Feeling, Enjoy, Group

Crafts make us feel rooted, give us a sense of belonging and connect us with our history. Our ancestors used to create these crafts out of necessity, and now we do them for fun, to make money and to express ourselves.
Phyllis George

Money, History, Fun

I realized that my truest passion was for helping people change through faith in a higher power. That meant, for me, belonging to the church. Using my abilities to bring Christian doctrine to a postmodern world.
James McGreevey

Change, Faith, Power

I had friends at school, but I was never part of a gang and I dreamed of that sense of belonging to a group. You know, where people would call me 'Em' and shout across the bar, 'Em, what are you drinking?' after the show.
Emily Mortimer

School, Friends, After

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

Future, Object, Recognised

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.
Dolley Madison

House, Late, Valuable

As a politician who cherishes religious conviction in his personal sphere, but regards politics as a domain belonging outside religion, I believe that this view is seriously flawed.
Recep Tayyip Erdogan

Religion, Politics, Personal

I think the themes of belonging and parentage and love are obviously universal.
Christopher Eccleston

Love, Universal, Themes

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.
Richard Powers

Live, Self, Racism

My identity was a big issue when I was a teenager, and I had a lot of questions, like: 'Who am I?' 'Who do I belong to?' But when I was still quite young, I decided that belonging is a tough process in life, and I'd better say I belonged to myself and the world rather than belonging to one nationality or another.
Hiam Abbass

Life, Tough, Young

Whenever, then, the usual and ordinary rate of the profits of agricultural stock, and all the outgoings belonging to the cultivation of land, are together equal to the value of the whole produce, there can be no rent.
David Ricardo

Together, Whole, Value

I envy the happiness of others... I envy the sense of belonging... I seem always to be remaking myself.
Richard Eyre

Happiness, Envy, Others

Captain Fisher, the commander, with a party of young ladies from the city and gentlemen belonging to his ship, came one day to pay me a visit in the midst of a deluge of rain.
Joshua Slocum

Rain, Young, Pay

Before I took the veil, I was ornamented for the ceremony, and was clothed in a rich dress belonging to the Convent, which was used on such occasions; and placed not far from the altar in the chapel, in the view of a number of spectators who had assembled, perhaps about forty.
Maria Monk

Before, Rich, Far

I'm always very proud of belonging to three minorities: gay, Jewish, white South African.
Antony Sher

Gay, Proud, Three

The object of man's worship, whatever it be, will naturally be his standard of perfection. He clothes it with every attribute, belonging, in his view, to a perfect character; and this character he himself endeavors to attain.
Simon Greenleaf

Character, Perfect, Whatever

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.
Jim Parsons

Job, Means, Whether

Outside speech, the association that is made in the memory between words having something in common creates different groups, series, families, within which very diverse relations obtain but belonging to a single category: these are associative relations.
Ferdinand de Saussure

Single, Words, Different

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