Top 70 You Belong Here Quotes
#1. You don't need a scale to tell you whether you're allowed to like yourself today. You are. You belong here. No matter what you weigh, you deserve joy and happiness.
Geneen Roth
#2. The constant cry is that you belong here, or you make yourself belong, or you must go. (1998: 319)
Chang-rae Lee
#3. You belong here, you know that? You belong with us. It'll be over soon, so just hold on, okay?
Veronica Roth
#4. The waves splash against my face, carrying a message: Welcome, you belong here.
Doug Cooper
#5. Know you belong here. You belong here and everything you feel is okay.
Andrea Gibson
#6. I'm sure you understand my meanin'. After all, you're one of us. Your daddy was born here and your mamma was buried here. You belong here. Not everyone does. I stared back at her. She was in her van before I could say another word. This time, Mrs. Lincoln was after more than burning a few books.
Kami Garcia
#7. You should have known
The price of evil
And it hurts to know that you belong here
Yeah
No one to call
Everybody to fear
Your tragic fate is looking so clear
Yeah
Oooooooh
It's your fucking nightmare
-Nightmare
Avenged Sevenfold
#8. UNC symbolizes something special. When you get chills you know you belong here.
Lorrie Fair
#9. You belong here, and it's time you realize it. No one put a Scarlet A on your chest. This church is for human beings, not saints and angels.
Tiffany Reisz
#10. Don't you understand that wanting does not belong here, because that is what wounds, and there is never an end to it.
Isobelle Carmody
#11. Life isn't as magical here, and you're not the only one who feels like you don't belong, or that it's better somewhere else. But there ARE things worth living for. And the best part is you never know what's going to happen next.
O.R. Melling
#12. When you turn around, you'll see something I bet you've never seen before. If it takes your breath away, then you'll fit in nicely. If you don't feel anything, then maybe you don't belong here.
Veronica Randolph Batterson
#13. If the rest of the world could see you today their laughter would bring the sun to its knees and even the flowers would leap from the ground like bulldogs and chase you away to where you belong wherever that is, and who cares where it is as long as it's somewhere away from here.
Charles Bukowski
#14. 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
#15. I couldn't bear the thought of even your face here, left alone, for only the jungle to admire." He shook his head. "Never. I'd never allow it. The only thing is to hire an artist to turn you into a figurehead for a ship, so some part of you will always be venturing out where you belong.
Alexandra Bracken
#16. You leave me sitting here writing long margin notes in library books that don't belong to me, some day they'll find out i did it and take my library card away.
Helene Hanff
#17. You are a river rock and belong in a stream - not here in this upper room sinking in my bed ...
John Geddes
#18. Never a day will go by that I won't love you. And never will there be a hint of uncertainty that you belong anywhere else but right here.
Nashoda Rose
#19. Football is about winning; it's that simple. You have to love what you do. If you're here for the money, than you don't belong here.
Vinny Testaverde
#20. Do I have to be here to belong to you?' Froi asked. 'Can't I belong to you wherever I am?
Melina Marchetta
#21. Knowing that books are something that is hidden, that almost has that alchemical quality to it. There is a secret society in here, and if you belong to it, you'll be able to transform your lead into gold. I have that rather magical sense about books - that they do, somehow, have special powers.
Jeanette Winterson
#22. I had lost all hope believing that the Gods had created a soul mate to belong to me but now I have you here in my arms, I know it was worth all my lifetimes in wait.
Stephanie Hudson
#23. I don't think you really belong here, Aviger." Xoxarle nodded wisely, slowly.
Aviger shrugged, and did not raise his eyes. "I don't think any of us do."
"The brave belong where they decide." Some harshness entered the Idiran's voice.
Iain Banks
#24. I got a huge knot in my stomach because if Antarctica could talk, it would be saying only one thing: you don't belong here. (277)
Maria Semple
#25. I think being an outsider in general always helps you in comedy. I think it helps to have an outsider's eye. And so I have an outsider's voice. You know, as soon as I start talking, I don't belong here. And I think that helps in a way.
John Oliver
#26. LEXI: I feel like I belong here. Hell, maybe I always did belong, and I just needed to leave to see how good I had it. This place is home, and I love my job.......Maybe that means the big city defeated me.....
RYDER:Nah, you just figured out what you want. There's no defeat in that.
T.S. Joyce
#27. If you've been here 15 years and you've got three kids and grandkids and you've been paying taxes and obeying the law, you belong to a local church, I don't think we're going to separate you from your family, uproot you forcefully and kick you out.
Newt Gingrich
#28. It's natural to overlook and even sacrifice the things that belong to us most easily most gracefully. So here's me asking you to please not make that mistake.
Ann Brashares
#29. No place for illusions here. The beat doesn't stop solitude, it doesn't cure pain, you can't telephone it - it's simply a reminder that you belong to a shared story.
John Berger
#30. You should do what makes you happy. You are smart. You are beautiful. You can do anything. You don't belong here. You belong out there,
A Meredith Walters
#31. Anomaly is when you don't fit the expected norm. Like "wait what is this?! It doesn't belong here." Its what the system never planned for but now has to adapt to. Its Neo in The Matrix.
LeCrae
#32. Mary had said: "Your father and I have been looking for you anxiously." Jesus corrects her: I am with my father. My father is not Joseph, but another - God himself. It is to him that I belong, and here I am with him. Could Jesus' divine sonship be presented any more clearly?
Pope Benedict XVI
#33. What was a foreigner, anyway? Is the place you're born the only place you really belong? At what point do you stop being from "away" and start being from "here"?
Blue Balliett
#34. Most people here can't see it, even when they're right next to the wall. They're so absorbed in their own sadness that they cant' see past the darkness. But you can. You belong out there.
Sarah Fine
#35. What if I'll always be the person on the outside? The person who doesn't belong."
"You belong, Echo," he says against my temple. "Right here with me.
Katie McGarry
#36. This is your world, kid. Not mine. You know I don't belong here."
"You once told me you loved it down south."
"I was talking about anal sex."
"Of course you were.
Tiffany Reisz
#37. I am here because you are mine," I tell her, kissing her behind the ear and breathing in deeply. "And I am yours. I belong with you, and you belong with me. I don't care which country or where or under what stars but without you, I'm only me.
Karina Halle
#38. Even if we all want you here, you don't belong until you decide you do.
Stephenie Meyer
#39. Dreams deny her the freedom she truly seeks. Darkness consumes. Leg muscles burn. She runs away, even while lost in the paradise of sleep. Gravity is a crushing force bearing down on her chest, shattering wings and refusing her flight. A whisper in her mind. You don't belong here.
Laura Kreitzer
#40. You want to belong, you want to be here. In interactions with others you're constantly waiting to see that they recognize that you're a human being. That they can feel your heartbeat and you can feel theirs. And that together you will live - you will live together.
Claudia Rankine
#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 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
#43. 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
#44. 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
#46. I went to school to be a psychiatrist. That's where I was going until I had a teacher-student conference with one of my teachers and there were film school pamphlets, and he said, "You don't belong here. Get out. Go to film school."
Bryan Fuller
#47. When we're talking about feminism, I get sort of lost in the argument. Because as a woman of color, I don't know where I belong in this argument. Where do I say, 'I would be happy to have less money'? How do you fight for your rights when I'm super-grateful to be here at all?
Margaret Cho
#48. Yet there are some critics in the nonfiction world who still look at some of today's stranger interpretations of the essay and say "You don't belong here. That's not how we do things." I think that's problematic.
John D'Agata
#49. I never felt at home in London, because people were constantly telling me I didn't belong here, so after a while, you tend to believe that.
Naveen Andrews
#50. This is the girlfriend seat. You belong over here.
E.L. Todd
#51. We'll wire ahead and have your trunks sent back - because I'm not letting you go after them. Trunks or no trunks, you're staying here - where you belong." I had no objections.
Janette Oke
#52. But you don't belong here! You're dead!" I sobbed against his chest.
"Zo, babe, this is the Otherworld. It's not me who doesn't belong here-it's you.
P.C. Cast
#53. When I came to Los Angeles, it was the first time that I ever felt like I belong somewhere. Not because it was wacky, but because people here understood what I felt like to perform, and there were other kids my age who wanted to do it. I didn't get looked at as God, you freak.
Jennifer Love Hewitt
#54. The intellectual is called on the carpet ... Don't you conceal something? You talk a language which is suspect. You don't talk like the rest of us, like the man in the street, but rather like a foreigner who does not belong here. We have to cut you down to size, expose your tricks, purge you.
Herbert Marcuse
#55. You're standing onstage in a sold-out arena with people singing your music, and you feel like the loneliest person in the world. Because here's a party that, essentially, it's for you. And you still somehow feel like you don't belong there. Those people all have their lives and go back home.
Trent Reznor
#56. Here's how I define "stuff": anything you have allowed into your psychological or physical world that doesn't belong where it is, but for which you haven't yet determined what, exactly, it means to you, with the desired outcome and the next action step.
David Allen
#57. He's in the mafia, you know."
Jan frowned. "Not everyone who's Italian is in the mafia."
"That may be true in Italy-but here there are hardly enough Italians to run a mafia. They have to belong.
Marshall Thornton
#58. If you don't think you're a winner, you don't belong here.
Vince Lombardi
#59. I'm going to take you out of here ... I'm going to take you home, to the world where you belong, where cats with bent tails live, and there are little backyards, and alarm clocks ring in the morning.
Haruki Murakami
#60. Even your own arms, deep inside your body feel foriegn to you, feel that they do not belong to you. Here lies an important secret. Butoh's radical essence is hidden here.
Tatsumi Hijikata
#61. And the books you write. They're not you. They're not me sitting here, this Henry Miller. They belong to someone else. It's terrible. You can never rest.
Henry Miller
#62. As far as where you belong ... " He put a hand over his heart. "Right here. Always. In life and death and everything in between." He paused. "Never question it.
Chelsea Fine
#63. 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
#64. 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
#65. I don't belong here," I said. "I don't even believe in gods."
"Yeah," he said. "That's how we all started. Once you start believing in them? It doesn't get any easier.
Rick Riordan
#66. You don't belong here if you are unhappy," she continued. "Your mother makes you hateful, and you make her hateful. It doesn't matter if she's your mother. It's an accident of birth. It doesn't have to mean so much." ... "You belong where you have the best chance of being happy ...
Laura Moriarty
#67. 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
#68. I don't know where I belong," he said, "But if you let me, I will try to belong here.
Cassandra Clare
#69. 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
#70. The problem with paradise is that it's temporary: You don't belong here and the neighbors are nobody you care to know, so it's only blissful for a week or so.
Garrison Keillor
