Quotes about Belonging
Living is death; dying is life. We are not what we appear to be. On this side of the grave we are exiles, on that citizens; on this side orphans, on that children.
— Henry Ward Beecher
We may act sophisticated and worldly but I believe we feel safest when we go inside ourselves and find home, a place where we belong and maybe the only place we really do.
— Maya Angelou
Sometimes I feel like a motherless child,A long ways from home,A long ways from home.
— Anonymous
The foxes have holes, and the birds of the air have nests; but the Son of man hath not where to lay his head.
— Anonymous
Son, thou art ever with me, and all that I have is thine.
— Anonymous
Other sheep I have, which are not of this fold.
— Anonymous
Homecoming unites the past and the present.
— Anonymous
Homecoming means tradition.
— Anonymous
I have my own little world, but it's okay - they know me here.
— Anonymous
Oh, Lord God of Israel, I don't understand these things. Is it wrong to want to belong to you? My soul longs for you. Help me to be obedient, to be a proper wife to Joseph, for you are sovereign and must have chosen this man for me. Make me a woman after your own heart. Create in me a clean heart, and renew a right spirit within me.
— Francine Rivers
Humans live best when each has his own place, when each knows where he belongs in the scheme of things. Destroy the place and destroy the person
— Frank Herbert
Humans live best when each has his own place, when each knows where he belongs in the scheme of things.
— Frank Herbert