Belong Nowhere Quotes

#1. To belong nowhere is a blessing and a curse, like any kind of freedom.

Leah Stewart

#2. Rootlessness," I opine, "is the twenty-first century norm."
"You're not wrong and that's why we're in the shit we're in, mate. If you belong nowhere, why give a tinker's toss about anywhere?

David Mitchell

#3. I belong nowhere and to no one.

Waris Dirie

#4. The fact that I
am writing to you
in English
already falsifies what I
wanted to tell you.
My subject:
how to explain to you that I
don't belong to English
though I belong nowhere else

Gustavo Perez Firmat

#5. We belong to each other now, the beast declares as it grabs my limp body and takes me up into the darkness.

Frankie Ash

#6. Brave men don't belong to any one country. I respect bravery wherever I see it.

Harry Truman

#7. I belong to a family where I think we're all fairly treated, boys or girls. Although I have to work doubly hard just to be able to be recognised. That meant long hours, but the hard work paid off.

Teresita Sy-Coson

#8. No racist is domestic; they belong to the wildlife areas!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#9. But I also believe that a lot of gun owners would agree that AK-47s belong in the hands of soldiers, not on the streets of our cities.

Antonin Scalia

#10. A mother deserves a day off to care for a sick child or sick parent without running into hardship - and you know what, a father does, too. It's time to do away with workplace policies that belong in a 'Mad Men' episode.

Barack Obama

#11. I used to work for an SOE. The wealth I created didn't belong to me. In other words, I was only managing money for the country and the people.

Wang Shi

#12. Once you leave, you're no longer of that country, but you are never actually of the country that you go to, and if you go back, you're not anywhere. You never belong to anything.

Jessa Crispin

#13. When I think about you with him, it guts me. I feel like you ripped open my chest and tore out my damn heart. Do you even realize that? I know I should want you to be happy, but I can't wish it for anyone else other than me. I belong to you, and that's never going to change.

Ashleigh Z.

#14. My so-called faith went up in flames Till I believed in all your lies, For the life of me I don't know why. They got you wrong , You're not that strong. I don't belong here!

Alicia Witt

#15. Every time I'm in Canada I feel more Swedish, and every time I'm in Sweden I feel more Canadian. I belong in both places and I love them both equally. It's funny because the Swedes claim me as their Swedish pride and the Canadians call me their Canadian girl. I'll take it all.

Malin Akerman

#16. Even in the world of make-believe there have to be rules. The parts have to be consistent and belong together.

Daniel Keyes

#17. You are mine," he whispered into her. "And the world is ours. There is nowhere beneath this sky that we do not belong together.

Tessa Dare

#18. The pyjamas have cats on them. I am informed that these cats belong to an organisation called Hello Kitty.

Martin Millar

#19. Introductions, that is, belong to the masterpieces and classics of the world, to the great and ancient and accepted things; and I am here introducing a short, small story of my own which appeared in The Evening News about ten months ago.

Arthur Machen

#20. It sounds as if you are trapped in a cycle of thinking about yourself and how you don't belong in the world.

Dan Brown

#21. The police belongs to the people and the people belong to the police.

Todor Zhivkov

#22. It made me start to wonder if there were other people so lonely so close. I thought about "Eleanor Rigby." It's true, where do they all come from? And where do they all belong?

Jonathan Safran Foer

#23. I am at home everywhere, and nowhere. I am never a stranger and I never quite belong.

Georges Simenon

#24. And underneath it all, there remained an ever present anger and hurt, the feeling of belonging nowhere that comes to people who belong everywhere.

Zadie Smith

#25. For the first time in my life, I feel wanted... like I finally belong. There is nowhere on Earth I would rather be than here with you. You do not cage me, Styx. You make me soar.

Tillie Cole

#26. Because even though you don't want anyone to own you, it doesn't mean that there is nowhere you belong.

Lene Kaaberbol

#27. Conservation is getting nowhere because it is incompatible with our Abrahamic concept of land. 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

#28. 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

#29. I belong everywhere and nowhere, and I alone can save two worlds.

Jonathan Friesen

#30. Farts come from no
one and nowhere; they are anonymous emanations that belong
to the group as a whole, and even when every person in the
room can point to the culprit, the only sane course of action is
denial.

Paul Auster

#31. To strictest justice many ills belong, And honesty is often in the wrong.

Lucan

#32. I would suggest that the prisons I incessantly create are not designed to lock me in, rather they are designed to lock the world out. And the oddity is that either way, I am a prisoner who has sentenced himself to a prison within which I do not belong.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#33. Legs: the symbol of my solitude, my individual path, my uniqueness. Arms: the symbol of togetherness, my connection to others, my belonging to the human race. My legs make me who I am; they create my solitary path. My arms make me who I belong to; they connect me to the world.

Nicos Hadjicostis

#34. It doesn't feel like it was me who was doing that thing. And it's so hard to feel responsible for something you don't remember. So I never feel bad enough. I feel bad, but the thing that I've done - it's removed from me. It's like it doesn't belong to me.

Paula Hawkins

#35. At school, I always wanted to belong to a gang, and no one would have me. So I'd have make my own gang, but with everybody else's leftovers.

Kristin Scott Thomas

#36. If you pretend to belong, people often think you do.

Ruth Silver

#37. I will make wherever I am my home. Or I'll have no home at all. Either is better than living in a past and future where I don't belong

Kiersten White

#38. He needed to belong to her as thoroughly as she belonged to him.

N. Isabelle Blanco

#39. Really? That would be a first. I'm the son of Hades, Jason. I might as well be covered in blood or sewage, the way people treat me. I don't belong anywhere. I'm not even from this century. But that's not enough to set me apart.

Rick Riordan

#40. There is no worse flaw in man's character than that of wanting to belong.

David Adams Richards

#41. And I thank you for bringing me here For showing me home For singing these tears Finally I've found that I belong here.

Martin L. Gore

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

Wm. Paul Young

#43. You can trust my word," Everet said. "No one will raise a hand to punish you while you belong to me. Not me, not anyone else.

Kim Dare

#44. I am human because I belong, I participate, I share.

Desmond Tutu

#45. Michael Jackson doesn't really belong on this planet. He's the most important figure in the history of music. He'll be remembered far longer than George Bush will. 200 years from now, people will be talking about Michael Jackson, and no one's going to mention George Bush.

Brett Ratner

#46. 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

#47. The decoding of the human genome tells us that we are indeed related to the animals, the insects, and the plants, and that, like it or not, Earth is where we belong.

Ian McCallum

#48. Hatred grows into insolence when we desire to excel the rest of mankind and imagine we do not belong to the common lot; we even severely and haughtily despise others as our inferiors.

John Calvin

#49. We have laid the foundation for a better life. Things that were unimaginable a few years ago have become everyday reality. I belong to the generation of leaders for whom the achievement of democracy was the defining challenge.

Nelson Mandela

#50. We are justified in enforcing good morals, for they belong to all mankind; but we are not justified in enforcing good manners, for good manners always mean our own manners.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

#51. Kepler reportedly said, amid the massacres of religious wars, the laws of elliptical motion belong to no man or principality.'17 The same could be said of music.

John Eliot Gardiner

#52. I belong to no race nor time. I am the eternal feminine with its string of beads.

Zora Neale Hurston

#53. 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

#54. This was Betsy and Tacy's private corner. Betsy's mother was a great believer in people having private corners, and the piano box was plainly meant to belong to Betsy and Tacy, for it fitted them so snugly.

Maud Hart Lovelace

#55. You belong to me. We are not in a temporary relationship or whatever fucked up nonsense you want to call it. We are real, and you are mine. You became mine the first time I held you in my arms, and I swore to myself, I would protect you always." - Jackson Cole

Sarah Curtis

#56. Leather means possession. Turquoise traditionally represents protection. Together they mean you belong to the man who put it around your neck.

Kim Dare