Quotes about Belonging

That means you're my kid, I explained, and I'm your mother, and nobody can say it isn't so.

Yet I stake a claim, I am here, for I must be somewhere. But only as a child it seems, struggling to understand what every wife and gentleman passing on the street seems to know by rote. Whom to love, whom to castigate.

To be here was to be known. If Lee County isn't that, it's nothing.

I needed no snake to tell me I didn't belong in that family or house, or life. I was the tree of knowledge.

I wanted to go home. Which was nowhere, but it's a feeling you keep having, even after that's no place anymore. Probably if they dropped a bomb and there wasn't any food left on the planet, you'd still keep feeling hungry too.

Some people say religion is finding yourself, and some people say it's losing yourself in a crowd.

Golden children ran wild over a field of dead great-grandmothers and great-grandfathers, and the bones must have wanted to rise up and knock together and rattle with joy. I have never seen a town that gave so much—so much of what counts—to its children. More than anything else I wished I belonged to one of these living, celebrated families, lush as plants, with bones in the ground for roots. I wanted pollen on my cheeks and one of those calcium ancestors to decorate as my own.

Nothing is possible without love.

The most important thing in the world is family and love.

Fundamentally, we all want the same thing. We want to love. We want to be loved, and we want to matter.

Some of you are sitting at home saying, 'I don't need a church to love God,' and I am here telling you that you are so wrong.

The one thing everybody's looking for is unconditional love. We all need somebody to love us just the way we are