I think the themes of belonging and parentage and love are obviously universal. Votes: 4
Christopher EcclestonYou can't build a society purely on interests, you need a sense of belonging Votes: 4
Valery Giscard d'EstaingWe are driven by five genetic needs: survival, love and belonging, power, freedom, and fun. Votes: 3
William GlasserHypocrisy is the essence of snobbery, but all snobbery is about the problem of belonging. Votes: 1
Alexander TherouxYou're imperfect, and you're wired for struggle, but you are worthy of love and belonging. Votes: 1
Brene BrownPrejudice comes from insecurity and its spiritually infantile need of belonging. Votes: 0
Bryant McGillCreating traditions in the blended family promote unity and a sense of belonging. Votes: 0
Diane GreeneIt's not an accidental entanglement; it's an intentional knot. Love belongs with belonging. Votes: 0
Brene BrownOur sense of belonging can never be greater than our level of self acceptance. Votes: 0
Brené BrownIf I owned Gideon, he possessed me. I couldn't imagine belonging to anyone else. Votes: 0
Sylvia DayIn spite of all temptations of belonging to many nations, I've remained an Indian. Votes: 0
Vikram SethI'm always very proud of belonging to three minorities: gay, Jewish, white South African. Votes: 0
Antony SherThose who bless and serve life find a place of belonging and strength, a refuge. Votes: 0
Rachel Naomi RemenI think the sense of belonging does give you a certain amount of mental satisfaction. Votes: 0
Khushwant SinghHe took pride in belonging to the world's most exclusive club: the United States Senate. Votes: 0
Margaret TrumanWe are driven by five genetic needs: survival, love and belonging, power, freedom, and fun Votes: 0
William GlasserFamiliarity is the thing-the sense of belonging. It grants exemption from all evil, all shabbiness. Votes: 0
E. B. WhiteThose who have a strong sense of love and belonging have the courage to be imperfect. Votes: 0
Brené BrownYou are imperfect, you are wired for struggle, but you are worthy of love and belonging. Votes: 0
Bren茅 BrownYou are imperfect, you are wired for struggle, but you are worthy of love and belonging. Votes: 0
Brené BrownAmong the gifts of serving others, then, is that we ourselves find our place of belonging. Votes: 0
Reggie McNealI have no sense of nationalism, only a cosmic consciousness of belonging to the human family. Votes: 0
Rosika SchwimmerI had never had a deep sense of belonging anywhere. I always felt I was an outsider. Votes: 0
Chirlane McCrayShe had borne so long this cruelty of belonging to him and not being claimed by him. Votes: 0
D. H. LawrenceThe greatest reverses of fortune are the most easily borne from a sort of dignity belonging to them. Votes: 0
William HazlittShe would do anything, anything to belong to his son after a lifetime of belonging to no one at all. Votes: 0
Lauren DeStefanoTo be holy is to be home, to be able to rest in the house of belonging that we call the soul. Votes: 0
John O'DonohueI've always liked being relatively obscure. I feel that's where I belong, that's where my work belongs. Votes: 2 Don DeLillo
The truth is: Belonging starts with self-acceptance. Your level of belonging, in fact, can never be greater than your level of self-acceptance, because believing that you're enough is what gives you the courage to be authentic, vulnerable and imperfect. Votes: 2 Brene Brown
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. Votes: 1 Hiam Abbass
Everyone desires relationships and community. Most people want to belong to a cohesive, like-minded group. It staves off loneliness. It promotes identity. These are natural and very human instincts. Votes: 1 Joshua Ferris
Television has brought back murder into the home - where it belongs. Votes: 2 Alfred Hitchcock
It was actually a women's writing group I belonged to in graduate school that gave me the courage to move from poetry to fiction. Votes: 1 Mary Gordon
Never in my life did I steal a penny that didn't belong to me. Votes: 2 Sean Quinn
I've always craved to belong to somewhere, but I never have and never will. Votes: 1 Siobhan Fahey
The herd instinct is the new chic! It's like belonging to a club!... Votes: 3 Eugenia Sheppard
Our appreciation of folk art will strengthen our identities, our pride in belonging to a community. People trained in the creative use of their hands soon acquire skills, excellent craftsmanship which will be the most important measure of how well we can industrialize. Votes: 3 F. Sionil Jose
Jack doesn't belong anymore to just a family. He belongs to the country. Votes: 2 Joseph P. Kennedy
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. Votes: 3 Willard Scott
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. Votes: 5 Linus Torvalds
Nationalism has two fatal charms for its devotees: It presupposes local self-sufficiency, which is a pleasant and desirable condition, and it suggests, very subtly, a certain personal superiority by reason of one's belonging to a place which is definable and familiar, as against a place that is strange, remote. Votes: 3 E. B. White
In fourth grade I had a high school reading level, but I didn't want to go to school and I didn't feel I belonged there. Votes: 1 Freddie Prinze
What is a disloyal act? A person is disloyal if he treats you as a stranger when, in fact, he belongs to you as a friend or partner. Each of us is bound to some special others by the invisible fibers of loyalty. Votes: 2 Lewis B. Smedes
God is not willing to do everything, and thus take away our free will and that share of glory which belongs to us. Votes: 3 Niccolo Machiavelli
I'm happy to belong to this group of top champions having excelled here. Votes: 2 Hermann Maier
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: 1 Dwight L. Moody
Praying in Jesus' name makes the distinction that all glory and honor belong to Christ, who is one with God the Father. Votes: 1 Monica Johnson
She would do anything, anything to belong to his son after a lifetime of belonging to no one at all. Votes: 3 Lauren DeStefano
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 Frankie Valli
I belong to the Richmond Concert Society, who put on very good concerts. Votes: 1 Claire Tomalin
You can never lose anything that really belongs to you, and you can't keep that which belongs to someone else. Votes: 1 Edgar Cayce
He took pride in belonging to the world's most exclusive club: the United States Senate. Votes: 4 Margaret Truman
Only in the winter, in the country, can you have longer quiet stretches when you can savor belonging to yourself. Votes: 3 Ruth Stout
Why do we even bother? Why do we make ourselves so open to such easy damage? Is it all loneliness? Is it all fear? Or is it just to experience those narcotic moments of belonging with someone else? Votes: 3 David Levithan
No, I don't belong to a retirement community. Votes: 2 Sally Kellerman
History should belong to all of us, and it needs to include people from different cultural backgrounds. Otherwise, it risks becoming irrelevant to children, who could then become disenchanted with education. Votes: 1 Malorie Blackman
I belong to the generation of workers who, born in the villages and hamlets of rural Poland, had the opportunity to acquire education and find employment in industry, becoming in the course conscious of their rights and importance in society. Votes: 1 Lech Walesa
I never felt I belonged. I was always an outsider. Votes: 4 Ethel Waters
I'm a drifter and an outsider. There's not one single environment I can totally belong to. Votes: 7 Ang Lee
I have had issues with depression all my life, and it's probably true to say there was a tendency towards it even when I was very young, during my schooldays. There was often - and this is quite common with comics - a sense of not feeling as if I belonged anywhere. Votes: 1 Jack Dee