Quotes About Belonging To A Family

#1. 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

#2. Unity is a spiritual quality. It's the sweet feelings of peace and purpose that come from belonging to a family ... It's wanting the best for others as much as you want it for yourself ... It's knowing that no one is out to harm you. It means you will never be lonely.

Mary N. Cook

#3. I been with strangers all day and they treated me like family. I come in here to family and you treat me like a stranger.

August Wilson

#4. Happiness? No, it's not there for me.

Robert Mapplethorpe

#5. And as if he had read her thoughts, the old man murmured, 'What a blessing it is to die in your own bed, under your own roof, with your family surrounding you, full of the knowledge that you have lived as thoroughly as you wanted to.

Anita Rau Badami

#6. Tru, this is your home. You are my blood kin, my second cousin thrice removed. But blood kin's not the most important kin. Do you know what is?" "No, sir." "Love kin. And that comes from the heart. That's why this is your home.

G. Neri

#7. As I entered this world, I would leave behind the nurturing of my family and my home, but in another sense I would take their protection with me. The lessons I had learned, the feelings of groundedness and belonging that have been woven into my character there, would be my companions on the journey.

Sidney Poitier

#8. Stories in families are colossally important. Every family has stories: some funny, some proud, some embarrassing, some shameful. Knowing them is proof of belonging to the family.

Salman Rushdie

#9. Honestly we never lied to people about who we were. Usually the wackier interviews came to pass because the interview subjects, aware that we were Comedy Central, just wanted to get their stories out.

Mo Rocca

#10. Their suffering essentially relates to a terrifying and painful past that haunts them.

Onno Van Der Hart

#11. What a wonderful life; to be blessed with many sacred brothers and sisters?

Lailah Gifty Akita

#12. The grace of service is heart of belonging.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#13. But I also knew that if he turned away from me at this moment, somehow I would survive that, and I would find a way to flourish like the yard that still bloomed and grew around my family home.
I'm Sookie Stackhouse. I belong here.

Charlaine Harris

#14. In all cultures, the family imprints its members with selfhood. Human experience of identity has two elements; a sense of belonging and a sense of being separate. The laboratory in which these ingredients are mixed and dispensed is the family, the matrix of identity.

Salvador Minuchin

#15. It turns out that with Twitter data alone, we can go quite some way into figuring out someone's personality.

Anthony Goldbloom

#16. I swear it's true. If I lie to you, may I be changed into a sofa belonging to a fat family addicted to daytime TV and baked beans." (Fred to Jess)

Sue Limb

#17. Every enterprise is a learning and teaching institution. Training and development must be built into it on all levels - training and development that never stop.

Peter F. Drucker

#18. Being an American is a state of mind, and to be in a family is to feel the power of belonging, the power of your roots. Family is a tree, the strength of a tree, the roots, the leaves, the past and the present, the future, the fruits, the seeds.

Esai Morales

#19. All week Senate will be on the Stimulus/Porkulus Bill. Tune in C SPAN

Chuck Grassley

#20. [ ... ] The goal of Communism and the New World Order always has been the destruction of family. This forces people to get their sense of belonging from the elite-run media, political causes or products.

Henry Makow

#21. When we see the wholeness of being born, living, and dying, there is a joy in living and a grace in dying.

Vimala Thakar

#22. Adoption has the dimension of connection - not only to your own tribe, but beyond, widening the scope of what constitutes love, ties and family. It is a larger embrace. By adopting, we stretch past our immediate circles and, by reaching out, find an unexpected sense of belonging with others.

Isabella Rossellini

#23. Pack is for comfort when you hurt, I thought, putting my head back down. And for the first time in a long time, maybe the first time ever, I appreciated being a part of one.

Patricia Briggs

#24. Unity must be of the mind and heart, a sense of belonging together and of facing together those who attack it.

Jawaharlal Nehru

#25. Creating traditions in the blended family promote unity and a sense of belonging.

Diane Greene

#26. By remaining constrained in one's environment or country or family, one has little chance of being other than the original prescription. By leaving, one gains a perspective, a distance of both space and time, which is essential for writing about family or home, in any case.

Rabih Alameddine

#27. Once the product's task is known, design the interface first; then implement to the interface design.

Jef Raskin

#28. Nothing in our daily life offers more of the comfort of continuity, the generational connection of belonging to a vast and complicated American family, the powerful sense of home, the freedom from time's constraints, and the great gift of accumulated memory than does our National Pastime.

Ken Burns

#29. I need the sun, sand and ocean to rejuvenate my spirit, the food to enliven my body and all of the familiar places, friends and family to revitalize my soul. I go for replenishment. For a kind of love that I truly know. For a place of belonging, always.

Grace Gealey

#30. It doesn't matter where you're at, when you're with people you love, you're where you belong.

Courtney Carola

#31. How shall I ever learn who I am when there is so much of me that belongs to someone else?

Madeline Claire Franklin

#32. I want you to understand something: I am loving father who would do anything for his kids, whether they are mine or belonging to others in my family.

Corey Taylor

#33. I have no sense of nationalism, only a cosmic consciousness of belonging to the human family.

Rosika Schwimmer

#34. If you sit quiet long enough, you find out what people really think.

Carol Bartz

#35. Our home is a belonging place.

Seth Adam Smith

#36. Nor can a man any more live, whose Desires are at an end, than he, whose Senses and Imaginations are at a stand.

Thomas Hobbes

#37. Bean could see the hunger in their eyes. Not the regular hunger, for food, but the real hunger, the deep hunger, for family, for love, for belonging.

Orson Scott Card

#38. Lentil dhal is the only thing I can cook.

Rebecca Hall