Top 100 To Belong Quotes
#1. I believe my religion is the truth, but I am not the truth and the truth doesn't belong to me I'm trying to belong to the truth.
Tariq Ramadan
#2. It's so awful and sad," she once admitted to Tom Goodenough, "to belong to a race that no sane person believes in.
Mary Norton
#3. Everything comes to us from others. To Be is to belong to someone.
Jean-Paul Sartre
#4. Areas where there is a lack of data, or a lack of understanding, are automatically assumed to belong, by default, to God.
Richard Dawkins
#5. The sub has the upper hand in a true Master and sub relationship, Thomas. Always. I can possess you only as long as you want to belong to me.
Joey W. Hill
#6. At a deep psychological level, convincing young people that they will get the respect, admiration, love that they are looking for through consumerism is a manipulation of a deep human instinct to want to belong.
Helena Norberg-Hodge
#7. If the pretties were expected to make the supreme sacrifice in order to 'belong,' what could the unattractive female do?
Maya Angelou
#8. I know at that moment what he's given me and it isn't a chair. It's an invitation, a welcome, the knowledge that I am accepted here. He hasn't given me a place to sit. He's given me a place to belong.
Katja Millay
#9. We still live in a world in which a significant fraction of people, including women, believe that a woman belongs and wants to belong exclusively in the home; that a woman should not aspire to achieve more than her male counterparts and, particularly, not more than her husband.
Rosalyn Sussman Yalow
#10. When I reached adulthood, even now, I could afford to belong to a country club. But I could never belong to a private club because of my experience as a child, because it would isolate me from the whole of humanity.
Martin Sheen
#11. Has there ever been an age so rife with neurotic sensibility, with that state of near shudders, or near hysteria, or near nausea, much of it induced by trifles, which used to belong to people who were at once ill-adjusted and over-civilized?
Louis Kronenberger
#12. Caring what others think about us is normal. The desire to belong is basic to human nature. But in order to feel like you truly belong, you must accept yourself for who you are. This is critical to Fearless Living.
Rhonda Britten
#13. Given my own circumstances, I find that anything can turn out to belong nearly anywhere.
Barbara Kingsolver
#14. My whole image is a short step to the right of bondage porn. It's like I was begging you to do this to me before we even met, isn't it? Like I was just waiting for someone to belong to. I'm everything you think I am. I want everything you think I do. Explore me.
Thursday Euclid
#15. There would never be a place where he could belong completely, where he could truly be himself. Unless he chose to belong to the shadows
L.J.Smith
#16. Those of us who believe in the right of any human being to belong to whatever church he sees fit, and to worship God in his own way, cannot be accused of prejudice when we do not want to see public education connected with religious control of the schools, which are paid for by taxpayers' money.
Eleanor Roosevelt
#17. Love is the dance of the spirit on a stage called heart with the songs of mind to satisfy our eternal desires to belong.
Debasish Mridha
#18. The fear of being different is fueled by our need to belong and can result in an emotional crash! EL
Evinda Lepins
#19. Kissing you, wanting you, just being here with you while I'm legally bound to another woman ... that's not what I should be doing. I won't want to belong to her in any way when my heart is yours.
Linda Kage
#20. With my meagre knowledge of my own religion i do not want to belong to any religious body
Mahatma Gandhi
#21. If you're part of the Network Generation, you don't have to belong just to one nation. Dual identities come easily to these dual screeners. They fear a separate Scotland would be a narrowing, not a broadening, experience.
Douglas Alexander
#22. But whatever came, she had resolved never again to belong to another than herself.
Kate Chopin
#23. We all enter the world with fairly simple needs: to be protected, to be nurtured, to be loved unconditionally, and to belong.
Louise Hart
#24. The only way to belong is to act like you belong. Or to not give a shit whether you belong or not.
Lauren Conrad
#25. Allah warns the Muslims not to consider booty won at Badr to belong to anyone but Muhammad:
Robert Spencer
#26. Isn't there such a thing as social liberation?" "Of course there is," said the Master. "How would you describe it?" "Liberation from the need to belong to the herd.
Anthony De Mello
#27. In every city you go, you will come across men of different kinds and you are the one to choose where your to belong.
Auliq Ice
#28. She would do anything, anything to belong to his son after a lifetime of belonging to no one at all.
Lauren DeStefano
#29. If my mom says women are not property how come I want to belong to someone?
Sarah Tregay
#30. Simon bristled. She wasn't his Isabelle, not anymore. He wondered if she ever truly had been. Isabelle didn't seem like the type of girl to belong to someone. It was one of the things he liked best about her.
Cassandra Clare
#31. The parts of our lives when we write them down seem to belong in different books, by different writers even. What all these bits and pieces make up I don't know. There is no plot. Perhaps meaning is something we invent afterward, putting it all together, like imagined God.
Niall Williams
#32. Once a song's out there, it's no longer mine. And that's the whole purpose of music: to belong to people.
Sade Adu
#33. The conflict between the need to belong to a group and the need to be seen as unique and individual is the dominant struggle of adolescence.
Jeanne Elium
#34. He didn't seem conventionally insane in any way that I could understand. But there was no way of comprehending him. In some eerie and fundamental way, he didn't appear to belong to our world. But that didn't seem the same as being mad.
Marcel Theroux
#35. There are so many opportunities where people are thirsting: young people who are preparing for Confirmation, young adults who are searching, people of every age. There's a great thirst, I think, of people to come to understand and to belong to the Church of Christ.
Joseph Edward Kurtz
#36. Every Englishman is convinced of one thing, viz.: That to be an Englishman is to belong to the most exclusive club there is.
Ogden Nash
#37. The world seems to belong to those who reach out and grab it with both hands. It belongs to those who do something rather than just wish and hope and plan and pray, and intend to do something someday, when everything is just right.
Brian Tracy
#38. We come to this world with an abundance of hope, a deep desire to love, and a longing to belong.
Debasish Mridha
#39. The world! It is a word capable of as diverse interpretations or misinterpretations as the thing itself a thing by various people supposed to belong to heaven, man, or the devil, or alternatively to all three.
Dinah Maria Murlock Craik
#40. It is hard to grow up in a society in which one's important problems are treated as nonexistent. It is impossible to belong to it, it is hard to fight to change it.
Paul Goodman
#41. What you possess in the world will be found at the day of your death to belong to someone else. But what you are will be yours forever.
Henry Van Dyke
#42. Why now? Why not? Live or die, a man and a woman need love. There is a need in the race. We need to share. To belong. Perhaps you will die before the year is out. But remember this: to have may be taken from you, to have had never. Far better to have tasted love before dying, than to die alone.
David Gemmell
#44. Please accept my resignation. I don't care to belong to any club that will have me as a member.
Groucho Marx
#45. There was an immeasurable distance between the quick and the dead: they did not seem to belong to the same species; and it was strange to think that but a little while before they had spoken and moved and eaten and laughed.
W. Somerset Maugham
#46. I think what a big part of 30 Seconds to Mars is, it's not only music, it's not only art, it's a community. It's a sense of having a place to belong. And not everybody will understand it, and that's ok, it's just for the people that do.
Jared Leto
#47. I no longer felt I could try to belong with these people.
Olivia Sudjic
#48. The beliefs are almost always the same; it's just that the histories are different. Everybody wants to believe
in a higher power. Everybody wants to belong to something bigger than themselves, and everybody wants company in doing that.
David Levithan
#49. Try, if you can, to belong to the first class. There's far less competition.
Dwight Morrow
#50. Too broken to belong
too weak to sing along
I'll comfort you my friend
Helping you to
Blow it all away
Muse
#51. You have to be a prince to understand the people, and you have to belong to the people to understand the princes ...
Niccolo Machiavelli
#53. He was charmed out of all reason as he watched her, this sandy, disheveled, storytelling mermaid, who seemed already to belong to him and yet wanted nothing to do with him. His heart worked in strange rhythms, as if it were struggling to adjust to a brand new metronome. What was happening to him?
Lisa Kleypas
#54. If you want to preserve your virginity, it's about not wanting to belong to the human species.
Catherine Breillat
#55. All the ills of mankind spring from belonging to a race, a nation, a city, a group of some kind. The ideal would be to belong to none, and to care for allbut who is capable of that?
Louis Dudek
#56. If you're ever lucky enough to belong somewhere, if a place takes you in and you take it into yourself, you don't desert it just because it can kill you. There are things more valuable than life.
Poppy Z. Brite
#57. He said it was better to belong where you don't belong than not to belong where you used to belong, remembering when you used to belong there.
Terry Pratchett
#58. I wanted to acknowledge my U.S. heritage and to belong to it more closely. Having said that, I am certainly British by formation and education and readily think of London as home. I had never lived in the U.S. till 2007.
Jamie Bamber
#59. To belong to Jesus is to embrace the nations with Him.
John Piper
#60. Are you really going to catch us and take us back to Esther? We don't belong to her, you know."
Embarrassed, Victor stared at his shoes. "Well, children all have to belong to somebody," he muttered.
"Do you belong to someone?"
"That's different."
"Because you're a grown-up?
Cornelia Funke
#61. It's like that sometimes for people who have had traumatic experiences in their past life. It's hard to move on, to belong, in one place when you have unresolved business in another.
Amanda Gray
#62. Gamache had been to Three Pines on previous investigations and each time he'd had the feeling he belonged. It was a powerful feeling. After all, what else did people really want except to belong? He
Louise Penny
#63. Picasso is what is going to happen and what is happening; he is posterity and archaic time, the distant ancestor and our next-door neighbor. Speed permits him to be two places at once, to belong to all the centuries without letting go of the here and now.
Octavio Paz
#64. I feel connected to that idea of wanting to belong to something, to have a sense of purpose as a man on the planet.
Jeremy Renner
#65. I've always tried to make a home for myself, but I have not felt at home in myself. I've worked hard at being the hero of my own life. But every time I checked the register of displaced persons, I was still on it. I didn't know how to belong. Longing? Yes. Belonging? No.
Jeanette Winterson
#66. If God had called me up to heaven, and told me that I was allowed to build a man to belong to me, I would have built myself a Kayden.
H.D. Gordon
#67. Our Lord mentions may be a competitive relationship. I may prefer to belong to my mother, or to my wife, or to myself; then says Jesus, you cannot be My disciple. This does not mean I will not be saved, but it does mean that I cannot be "His.
Oswald Chambers
#68. The essential dilemma of my life is between my deep desire to belong and my suspicion of belonging.
Jhumpa Lahiri
#69. And it came to me, and I knew what I had to have before my soul would rest. I wanted to belong - to belong to my mother. And in return - I wanted my mother to belong to me.
Gloria Vanderbilt
#70. When you became a student at Oxford you realized both your own mortality, in the flow of this near-millennium of students, and also the small particle of immortality that attaches to you when you begin to belong to an immortal place.
Charles Finch
#71. When I was a kid ... I needed to belong.
Wally Lamb
#72. Sheep only need a single flock, but people need two: one to belong to and make them feel comfortable, and another to blame all of society's problems on.
James Rozoff
#73. The world can be a great big scary place,
and finding a soul mate is no simple task.
But if you're lucky enough to do just that,
sometimes that's all that you need: one person
to belong to - who also belongs to you.
Rachel C. Weingarten
#74. Why don't you just admit that you wanted to belong to him? Why don't you admit that part of you still does?
Leigh Bardugo
#75. Joining a sub-culture, any sub-culture, for whatever reason, is as I see it never a legitimate self-expression. It is always a result of sheep mentality; a wish to belong somewhere.
Varg Vikernes
#76. They grew up on the outside of society. They weren't looking for a fight. They were looking to belong.
S.E. Hinton
#77. I sent the club a wire stating, PLEASE ACCEPT MY RESIGNATION. I DON'T WANT TO BELONG TO ANY CLUB THAT WILL ACCEPT ME AS A MEMBER.
Groucho Marx
#78. Beauty without colour seems somehow to belong to another world.
Murasaki Shikibu
#79. It's my duty to fight those who have chosen to belong to the party of death, those who say they receive their orders from God somewhere and believe they have a duty to set the world on fire to achieve their own salvation.
Wole Soyinka
#80. At our computer club, we talked about it being a revolution. Computers were going to belong to everyone, and give us power, and free us from the people who owned computers and all that stuff.
Steve Wozniak
#81. I realized you don't need to belong to any fuckin' edifice or ascribe to any dogma to have a relationship with God, to be a good person. You just have to be a good person.
Ron Perlman
#82. [Mary] is the safest, easiest, shortest and most perfect way of approaching Jesus and will surrender themselves to her, body and soul, without reserve in order to belong entirely to Jesus.
Louis De Montfort
#83. I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members.
Groucho Marx
#84. There's no going back," he whispers ... "Once I am inside you, you're mine."
...
"I want to be yours," I answer in a breathy whisper. "I want to belong to you, Drew. Only you.
Monica Murphy
#85. Do you remember how this life of yours longed in childhood to belong to the grown-ups? I can see that it now longs to move on from them and is drawn to those who are greater yet. That is why it does not cease to be difficult, but also why it will not cease to grow.
Rainer Maria Rilke
#86. Now I know there are ways to belong to someone that don't take anything away. A relationship shouldn't impose limits - and if it does, then it's wrong. A lover should help you exceed your potential, not clip your wings.
Ann Aguirre
#87. To really belong, we have got, first, to get it clear with ourselves that we do not belong and do not want to belong to an unfree world. As free men and women we have got to reject much of it and to know why we are rejecting it.
C. Wright Mills
#88. We can think of solutions in various theoretical ways, but it's not so on the ground. If they don't have a reference that helps them to belong, then they will end up excluding, and through that they get to feel that they belong on the basis of some narrow identity, language or color.
Tariq Ramadan
#89. Does he write to you? Never a line. Does he send you a message? Never a word. It is because he loves you, poor fool, and is trying to forget you, since you are not free to listen to him or to belong to him.
Kate Chopin
#90. am proud to belong to a nation which has sheltered the persecuted and the refugees of all religions and all nations of the earth.
Swami Vivekananda
#91. I don't want to belong to anyone but myself. I don't want to live anyone's life but my own.
And I do not fit into Jenny Dawson's life. I've known it from the very beginning.
But damned if it didn't feel like she was just starting to fit into mine.
Lauren Layne
#92. You know," he said to his mother, "I don't want to belong to the well-to-do middle class. I like my common people best. I belong to the common people." - Sons and Lovers
D.H. Lawrence
#93. If you move to Canada, after a few years you call yourself Canadian. In Germany, it's difficult to belong.
Sibel Kekilli
#94. I'm happy to belong to this group of top champions having excelled here.
Hermann Maier
#95. It's not only music. It's not only art. It's a community. It's a sense of having a place to belong.
Jared Leto
#96. It's about creating a place to belong before people are expected to behave or even believe.
Jen Hatmaker
#97. It is in many circumstances a troubling thing to belong to the advanced class of a backward nation. One surrenders coherence and begins a difficult process of choice which ends, often, in an eclectic idiosyncrasy.
George W. S. Trow
#98. The need to belong fuels our fear of not being good enough! EL
Evinda Lepins
#99. What would it be like to be caught in the emotional crosshairs of a man like Luke Almeida? To belong to him, body and soul? The prospect warmed her some. Scared her more. With Luke, she suspected there would be no half measures.
Kate Meader
#100. Some people act like it's a sign of weakness if you want to belong, but I think most human beings yearn to find at least one open door in their lifetime.
Victor LaValle
