Belonging Quotes - Page 13

• The Indians used to be the only inhabitants of the Americas, but times change. Having perceived us as belonging to history, they are free to emote over us, to re-create us in their history-based understanding, and dismiss our present lives as archaic and irrelevant to the times.

  Paula Gunn Allen

  Understanding, Used, Present Life

  Paula Gunn Allen (2015). “The Sacred Hoop: Recovering the Feminine in American Indian Traditions”, p.125, Open Road Media

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• Of course in Turkey I'm seen as being on the 'Western' side, criticised by the nationalists, criticised by the communitarians as not belonging. Even, sometimes, criticised for looking at my country through Western eyes. And in the Western media I'm portrayed as belonging to the East.

  Orhan Pamuk

  Country, Eye, Media

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• A life of wealth and many belongings is only a means to happiness. Honor, power, and success cannot be happiness because they depend on the whims of others, and happiness should be self-contained, complete in itself.

  Aristotle

  Mean, Self, Honor

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• The euro will raise the citizens' awareness of their belonging to one Europe more than any other integration step to date.

  Gerhard Schroder

  Europe, Citizens, Steps

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• Belonging to the Catholic Church gives your support to an organization that conceals and protects child rapists. Again, not as a few isolated incidents, but as a massive, institution-wide culture, a matter of policy even, that extends throughout the organization and reaches all the way to the top. Belonging to the Catholic Church - giving them money, letting them count you in their rolls, sending your children to their schools - gives this behavior your personal thumbs-up, and actively enables it to continue.

  Greta Christina

  Children, School, Organization

  "Why Is Anyone Still Catholic?". Article by Greta Christina, www.alternet.org. May 14, 2010.

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• One must not count in thousands, like the propagandist belonging to a small group that has not yet given leadership to the masses; in these circumstances one must count in millions and tens of millions.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Groups, Given, Mass

  V. I. Lenin (2008). “Left-Wing Communism, an Infantile Disorder”, p.92, Wildside Press LLC

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• The states in which we infuse a transfiguration and a fullness into things and poetize about them until they reflect back our fullness and joy in life... three elements principally: sexuality, intoxication and cruelty all belonging to the oldest festal joys.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Joy, Three, Elements

  "The Will to Power" by Friedrich Nietzsche, Sec. 801, Notebook W II 1. KGW VIII, 2.57-8, KSA 12.393-4, Fall 1888.

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• Detach the writer from the milieu where he has experienced his greatest sense of belonging, and you have created a discontinuity within his personality, a short circuit in his identity. The result is his originality, his creativity comes to an end. He becomes the one-book novelist or the one-trilogy writer.

  Henry Roth

  Book, Creativity, Personality

  1987 'The Eternal Plebeian and Other Matters', in Shifting Landscape.

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• To have a job you can count on as an actor is so rare, whether that means belonging to a regional theater company or being on TV.

  Jim Parsons

  Jobs, Mean, Actors

  Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. May 1, 2009.

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• I know a few things to be true. I do not know where I am going, where I have come from is disappearing, I am unwelcome and my beauty is not beauty here. My body is burning with the shame of not belonging, my body is longing.

  Warsan Shire

  Burning, Body, Longing

  Warsan Shire, “Conversations About Home (At The Deportation Centre)”

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• Individuality, family, and community are, by definition, expressions of singular organization, never of "one-right-way" thinking on the grand scale. Children and families need some relief from government surveillance and intimidation if original expressions belonging to THEM are to develop. Without these freedom has no meaning.

  John Taylor Gatto

  Children, Thinking, Government

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• The identity that we ascribe to things is only a fictitious one, established by the mind, not a peculiar nature belonging to what we’re talking about.

  David Hume

  Talking, Mind, Identity

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• The power confided in me will be used to hold, occupy and possess the property and places belonging to the government, and to collect the duties and imposts.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Power, Government, Used

  Abraham Lincoln (2012). “The Complete Papers And Writings Of Abraham Lincoln (Biographically Annotated Edition)”, p.867, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Sometimes I feel a strange exhilaration up here which seems to come from something beyond the mere stimulus of flying. It is a feeling of belonging to the sky, of owning and being owned - if only for a moment - by the air I breathe. It is akin to the well known claim of the swallow: each bird staking out his personal bug-strewn slice of heaven, his inviolate property of the blue.

  Guy Murchie

  Blue, Sky, Air

  Guy Murchie (2016). “Song of the Sky”, p.299, Pickle Partners Publishing

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• Thyself and thy belongings
  Are not thine own so proper, as to waste
  Thyself upon thy virtues, they on thee.
  Heaven doth with us as we with torches do,
  Not light them for themselves; for if our virtues
  Did not go forth of us 't were all alike
  As if we had them not. Spirits are not finely touch'd
  But to fine issues; nor Nature never lends
  The smallest scruple of her excellence,
  But, like a thrifty goddess, she determines
  Herself the glory of a creditor -
  Both thanks and use.

  William Shakespeare

  Light, Issues, Heaven

  William Shakespeare (1842). “The Comedies, Histories, Tragedies, and Poems of William Shakspere: Merry wives of Windsor. Twelfth night. As you like it. Measure for measure”, p.383

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• There is one transcendant advantage belonging to the province of the State governments . . . -I mean the ordinary administration of criminal and civil justice.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Mean, Government, Justice

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• 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

  Love, Inspirational, Family

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• Such then in number and importance are the precious ties belonging to the Christian name which keep a believer in the Catholic Church, as it is right they should ... With you, where there is none of these things to attract or keep me... No one shall move me from the faith which binds my mind with ties so many and so strong to the Christian religion... For my part, I should not believe the gospel except as moved by the authority of the Catholic Church.

  Saint Augustine

  Christian, Strong, Moving

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• Though Alec had never seen the occupants of the first floor loft, they seemed to be engaged in a tempestuous romance. Once there had been a bunch of someone's belongings strewn all over the landing with a note attached to a jacket lapel addressed to "A lying liar who lies." Right now there was a bouquet of flowers taped to the door with a card tucked among the blooms that read I'M SORRY. That was the thing about New York: you always knew more about your neighbors' business than you wanted to.

  Cassandra Clare

  New York, Sorry, Liars

  Cassandra Clare (2014). “City of Lost Souls”, p.39, Simon and Schuster

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• As for poetry 'belonging' in the classroom, it's like the way they taught us sex in those old hygiene classes: not performance but semiotics. If it I had taken Hygiene 71 seriously, I would have become a monk; & if I had taken college English seriously, I would have become an accountant.

  Jerome Rothenberg

  Sex, Taken, College

  Jerome Rothenberg (1981). “Pre-faces & Other Writings”, p.36, New Directions Publishing

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• There are... for us no instincts—we no longer need the term in psychology. Everything we have been in the habit of calling an 'instinct' today is a result largely of training—belonging to man's learned behavior.

  John B. Watson

  Men, Psychology, Training

  John B. Watson (2017). “Behaviorism”, p.79, Routledge

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• In the history of the human race, those periods which later appeared as great have been the periods when the men and the women belonging to them had transcended the differences that divided them and had recognized in their membership in the human race a common bond.

  Haile Selassie

  Men, Differences, Race

  Haile Selassie's Address at Haile Selassie I University (Addis Ababa University) honoring Indian President Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, October 13, 1965.

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• The reality of a serious writer is a reality of many voices, some of them belonging to the writer, some of them belonging to the world of readers at large.

  Aberjhani

  Reality, Voice, World

  Aberjhani (2012). “Visions of a Skylark Dressed in Black”, p.15, Bright Skylark Book Products

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• I have learned things from the game. Much of my knowledge of locations in Britain and Europe comes not from school, but from away games or the sports pages, and hooliganism has given me both a taste for sociology and a degree of fieldwork experience. I have learned the value of investing time and emotion in things I cannot control, and of belonging to a community whose aspirations I share completely and uncritically.

  Nick Hornby

  Sports, School, Europe

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• The feeling of not belonging, of not being entirely worthy, of being sometimes hostage to your own sensibilities. Those things speak to me very personally.

  Anthony Minghella

  Feelings, Sometimes, Speak

  "‘Childhood Is Not a Geographical Place’: Arwad ‘s Samer Najari and Dominique Chila" by E. Nina Rothe, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 7, 2014.

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