A Place Where I Belong Quotes

#1. As an outsider myself, I always mixed myself with different groups ... I've never been afraid to go into a different space and relate to those people, because I don't have a place where I belong and that means I belong everywhere.

Trevor Noah

#2. Being inside her feels like being home, it feels like being in love, it feels like everything sweet and beautiful and nice in the world. Every time I come in her I hope I'm making a home for myself, a place where I belong.

Karina Halle

#3. The problem has not been finding a place where I belong, which is how a children's book might tell it, but of finding ways of insisting on belonging nowhere.

Eula Biss

#4. I wish I knew what it was like, to find a place where I belong.

Three Days Grace

#5. I know my journey's not over yet, and that life is a winding path, but I can only hope it somehow circles back to the place I belong. That's

Nicholas Sparks

#6. What if you're the angel I sought and me the ghost you loved, and we both knew, we belong to different place.

J. Limbu

#7. Nor can I allow you to leave my arms, unless I can be certain you know that this is where you belong. Can you not feel that your place is here - in my arms, in my home, in my life?

Lory Lilian

#8. Where do you go if you don't belong anywhere? If I wanted to run away then why come to the city? Because this is the place to hide. This is the place to be invisible. Anyone can be no one here, and I am someone that wants to be no one.

Steven Wilson

#9. Writers do not write about a place because they belong there, but because they want to.

Tony Earley

#10. So forget this cruel world
Where I belong
I'll just sit and wait
And sing my song.
And if one day you should see me in the crowd
Lend a hand and lift me
To your place in the cloud.

Nick Drake

#11. All I've ever wanted was a place to belong, and someone to belong to.

Donna Alward

#12. When the time comes, everybody's got to end up where they belong. Only me, I didn't have a place to call my own. It's like musical chairs.

Haruki Murakami

#13. She, human and wolf both, craved him like a junkie just as she craved all the things he seemed to promise: safety, love, hope - a place to belong.

Patricia Briggs

#14. Military training is a popular choice for both male and female transsexuals because it gives them not only a place to belong but also a strong sense of group affiliation.

Mildred L. Brown

#15. Cam has been an outsider for his entire life. Even when he lived with the Rom. I think he's always secretly hoped he could someday find a place where he would belong. But until he met you, it didn't occur to him that it might not be a place he was looking for, but a person.

Lisa Kleypas

#16. We may act sophisticated and worldly but I believe we feel safest when we go inside ourselves and find home, a place where we belong and maybe the only place we really do.

Maya Angelou

#17. When we run from God, we run away from everything that makes us alive and free. We run away from our own happiness. We leave our place where we belong - close to his heart.

Sally Lloyd-Jones

#18. My home is such a powerfully imaginative place that the space is almost irrelevant. I think the house I live at on the Hudson is where I belong because it's the only place where I am that I never think about when I'm leaving.

Toni Morrison

#19. We may say we're looking for love, following dreams, chasing the dollar, but aren't we just looking for a place where we belong? A place where our thoughts, feelings, and fears are understood? - Ridley Jones

Lisa Unger

#20. Those who don't belong to any specific place can't, in fact, return anywhere.

Jhumpa Lahiri

#21. Neither one nor the other, not a demon, but not a human either, no place no belong... I thought the only way was to carve out your own place, by force; that's how I survived. And by the time I knew what was happening, I was all alone...

Inuyasha

#22. In London I have been by turns poor and rich, hopeful and despondent, successful and down and out, utterly miserable and ecstatically, dizzily happy. I belong to London as each of us can belong to only one place on this earth. And, in the same way, London belongs to me.

Gertrude Lawrence

#23. 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.

Dwight L. Moody

#24. 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.

Paul Ryan

#25. but my idea of myself and my parents' idea of me no longer belong in the same place.

Margaret Atwood

#26. I don't want to own anything until I know I've found the place where me and things belong together. I'm not quite sure where that is just yet. But I know what it's like.

Truman Capote

#27. In the life of each of us, I said to myself, there is a place remote and islanded, and given to endless regret or secret happiness; we are each the uncompanioned hermit and recluse of an hour or a day; we understand our fellows of the cell to whatever age of history they may belong.

Sarah Orne Jewett

#28. The challenge these days, is to be somewhere, to belong to some particular place, invest oneself in it, draw strength and courage from it, to dwell in a community.

Bell Hooks

#29. We have still not had a death. A person does not belong to a place until there is someone dead under the ground." he said.
"If I have to die for the rest of you to stay here, I will die" replied Ursula with a soft firmness.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#30. I think everything belongs in a certain place, for kids who feel they don't belong anywhere. A museum is an institution like a library where everything has a place, everything belongs.

Brian Selznick

#31. My home is not a place. It's not a fixed location on the map; not Paris or New York. It is with Ava. Wherever she is - that is where I belong.

Amy Plum

#32. ...This is the only world where I belong, the only place I fit in, the only thing I'm good at... why couldn't it all just stay perfect?

Chase Dalton

#33. Home is not as much about a place you belong, as people you belong to.

Wm. Paul Young

#34. Home isn't a place; it's a feeling; it's the people who make you feel that you belong.
I know that I belong here, with him, by his side.

J.C. Reed

#35. I finally got t this place were it feel right were i knew i belong were i didn't give crap maybe is not the right place but i feel save

Anita Rodriguez

#36. His female didn't belong in this foul place. And since he belonged with her, then neither did he. He didn't care what he had to do, he'd find a way to get her home.

Kresley Cole

#37. In the end we're all searching for our home, that one place where we belong.

Masiela Lusha

#38. There is no denying I'm once again complete in her presence. This is my place. I belong to her and my place is by her side. And the absoluteness of that statement is profound, and it begs to rewrite my life.

Elizabeth Finn

#39. That porch is a happy-looking place, and my father - burdened, stoop-shouldered, cadaverously thin - doesn't seem to belong on it.

Margaret Peterson Haddix

#40. Stay because you want to be here. Stay because we would miss you. And stay because you can belong in more than one place, and one of your places is with us.

Cynthia Lord

#41. [I]t doesn't matter whom you love or where you move from or to, you always take yourself with you. If you don't know who you are, or if you've forgotten or misplaced her, then you'll always feel as if you don't belong. Anywhere. (xiii)

Sarah Ban Breathnach

#42. I don't belong here. It doesn't matter, because even if I don't belong in this place, she's here and I want to be where she is.

Simone Elkeles

#43. I am not from east or west not up from the ground or out of the ocean my place is placeless a trace of the traceless I belong to the beloved

Rumi

#44. There's a place for everything and everyone, you know. That is the mistake they make above. They think that only certain people have a place. Only certain kinds of people belong. The rest is waste. But even waste must have a place. Otherwise it will clog and clot, and rot and fester.

Lauren Oliver

#45. 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?

Frankie Valli

#46. Being engaged in some way for the good of the community, whatever that community, is a factor in a meaningful life. We long to belong, and belonging and caring anchors our sense of place in the universe.

Patricia Churchland

#47. This is home, it's the only place I want to be, but at the same time everything familiar feels strange. It's the same as it ever was except without the people who most belong here.

Jael McHenry

#48. Now I know that if you open the right door at the right time, you might finally find a place where you belong.

Seanan McGuire

#49. I don't feel that I belong anywhere. Or rather, if there's a place I belong, I don't feel I'm there.

Tom Stoppard

#50. I'm tired of being ruled by the Skull and Bones. The only place they belong are on punk-rock albums!

Jello Biafra

#51. I'm living in California but I have a place that is mine in Chile and I belong there. I am no longer an exile.

Isabel Allende

#52. You belong at Camp Jupiter. That sounded so ridiculous, Hazel almost laughed. She didn't belong in this place. She didn't even belong in this century.

Rick Riordan

#53. If you want to get serious about influencing the hearts of this generation, you have to think about creating an actual, visible, consistent place where they know they belong.

Reggie Joiner

#54. All people need a place where their roots can grow deep and they always feel like they belong and have a loving refuge. And all people need a place that gives wings to their dreams, nurturing possibilities of who they might become.

Sally Clarkson

#55. We get swallowed up by the illusion that unless we can find a place to belong, we are going to be all alone in the world.

Naoki Higashida

#56. I was 13. And on my own for about 10 months, but those were long months. My stepdad wanted me out of his hair and tried to put me in a home, a hospital kind of place for kids with drug problems, which I absolutely did not belong in. So I left that place and struck out on my own .

Rose McGowan

#57. I admire someone like Beyonce. She has amazing commitment. I needed to accept that I probably did not fit into that forum. Doing that 'The Cherry Thing' record was a big part of finding that place where I belong, where I may shine, but I never doubted it was there.

Neneh Cherry

#58. At least the tree knows where it stands. It had a sense of place. It's fixed. Attached. And I am lost.
I belong to nothing, and no one, but that's all going to change.' - ppg 165

Annabel Pitcher