Belonging Quotes - Page 18

• [Michael] Chabon, who is himself a brash and playful and ebullient genre-bender, writes about how our idea of what constitutes literary fiction is a very narrow idea that, world-historically, evolved over the last sixty or seventy years or so - that until the rise of that kind of third-person-limited, middle-aged-white-guy-experiencing-enlightenment story as in some way the epitome of literary fiction - before that all kinds of crazy things that we would now define as belonging to genre were part of the literary canon.

  Emily Barton

  Crazy, Writing, Ideas

  Source: therumpus.net

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Mao lived very much like the rank and file of the Red Army. After ten years of leadership of the Reds, after hundreds of confiscations of property of landlords, officials and tax collectors, he owned only his blankets, and a few personal belongings, including two cotton uniforms. Although he is a Red Army commander as well as chairman, he wore on his coat collar only two Red bars that are the insignia of the ordinary Red soldier.

  Edgar Snow

  Army, Years, Two

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• I'm always hearing warnings about keeping your belongings close to you [in Ho Chi Minh City] as thieves who ride motorbikes are adept at snatching things off a person as they ride by, but I personally have never seen it. Funny though, I don't hear folks talk about pick pockets but it's happened to me twice. Beware of that cute little sweetheart and stay away from those talented little hands.

  Doug Rice

  Cute, Hands, Cities

  Source: www.expatarrivals.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• In the referendum - which was still decided to take place by the Crimea's old parliament - the majority of citizens voted for belonging to Russia. This is democracy, the people's will.

  Vladimir Putin

  Russia, People, Democracy

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• We're straying from the path of salvation because we remember that we once belonged to the world and were content in that belonging.

  Daniel Quinn

  World, Path, Remember

  Daniel Quinn (2010). “The Story of B”, p.325, Bantam

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I note that many British MEPs belonging to the UK Independence Party (UKIP) have used all their time in Parliament to work against the institution of which they are members. I would not presume to advise them on what they should or should not do. However, since the UK could not leave the EU fast enough as far as they were concerned, I can imagine that they will not stay any longer than they have to.

  Jean-Claude Juncker

  Party, Ukip, Independence

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• I've done a lot of going back and forth with my own writing, in particular translating my English language stuff into Ukrainian - poetry as well as prose. But I actually hate doing it. It is a thankless, mind-numbing process, additionally unpleasant for me because it reminds me of my ambiguous status of not belonging anywhere.

  Yuriy Tarnawsky

  Hate, Writing, Mind

  "No Tall Tales: An Interview With Yuriy Tarnawsky". Interview With David Moscovich, www.raintaxi.com. 2012.

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• I enjoy the freedom of living alone and not having anyone interfere with my belongings. I mean, I'm quite a selfish human being. I think being in the public eye and growing up, it's made me quite selfish in some respects. I can be extremely generous with friends, but in relationships I can be quite mean in terms of my time and my affections. I take people for granted, and I'm trying not to do that.

  Boy George

  Growing Up, Selfish, Mean

  Source: www.sfgate.com

  11 Copy quote

  Show source

• I have always been actively involved in my community, belonging to organizations that promote the interests of Latinos. But I also know that the issues we confront are the same issues, in many respects, as the larger community. So what we do helps not just us but everybody.

  Sonia Sotomayor

  Community, Helping, Latino

  Source: www.oprah.com

  19 Copy quote

  Show source

• People always think that loyalty is laudable. People are always saying that we must remain faithful to tradition, to family, to our class, to our ideas. Of course not! That would be equivalent to zero brain activity. If you really want to think, to seek truth, to advance intellectually, you must turn your back on clichés, on preconceived ideas - even those belonging to your spiritual family. For an intellectual, his true duty is not to fidelity, but to infidelity.

  Bernard-Henri Levy

  Loyalty, Spiritual, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• My friends don't understand, whether it's belonging to a country club or playing golf, or whatever a vacation is, that should make you happy. And it's like, "No, happiness is much deeper." I think people have to struggle to find things that give them purpose, the real meaning. Why am I alive? Why did God bless me with these skills or these resources? What am I to do with them? If God just lets some person be very fortunate, let's say financially, it's kind of a funny God.

  Les Wexner

  Country, Real, Struggle

  Source: www.achievement.org

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Whenever I hear somebody go, "I feel so religious right now!" I'm like, "Well, you're tying yourself up in knots, are you?" There's no spiritual connotation to that word whatsoever. And while it binds you to a rope, because it's about belonging, it alienates you to others. That can't be part of God's plan, if there is a God.

  James Callis

  Spiritual, Religious

  Source: www.avclub.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I'm felt I was writing about love and desire and community and belonging and grief and a whole host of other issues. But race is never far from the surface.

  Danzy Senna

  Grief, Writing, Community

  Source: therumpus.net

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• There's something about New York. You can get a nice feeling of belonging as a writer here. It's probably the best city on Earth like that. I miss the wisecracking of New York.

  Geoff Dyer

  Nice, Missing, Feelings

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I take advantage of the ability to fly with helicopters belonging to the federal police force, and this privilege is consistent with rules that have been in place for decades. A chancellor must be accessible at all times and be in a position to execute their duties as best they can. I must have the ability to immediately return to Berlin if necessary. There are also security considerations.

  Angela Merkel

  Police, Consideration, Duty

  Source: www.spiegel.de

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I always wanted to be a scientist. I don't really have any writer friends. The process of being a writer is much more interior than being a scientist, because science is so reactionary. I think that all research scientists think of themselves as belonging to a grand tradition, building on work that has been worked on since the very beginning of science itself. Whereas I'm not sure writers think of themselves in the same way.

  Hanya Yanagihara

  Thinking, Tradition, Building

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• A poem is a liminal space that can offer a sensation of belonging. A poem won't bring you a cold beer, but it may offer you a stool where you can sit down and feel momentarily at home. LGBT folks need intergenerational spaces where their lives and experiences are foregrounded.

  Jenny Johnson

  Home, Beer, Lgbt

  Source: therumpus.net

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Donald Trump understands sense of belonging. And a lot of people think globalization, any time you make any particularity, you're sort of offending some other group. And a lot of people in this country think they belong to America anymore, and he at least appeals to some sense of belonging. I like the idea that we belong to Western traditions, so I'm glad he appeals to that sort of thing.

  David Brooks

  Country, Thinking, People

  Source: www.pbs.org

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I left most of my stuff there in my apartment in the suburbs of Damascus. My apartment was completely destroyed by a bomb in 2013. I lost everything there. I cried not only for losing my apartment and my belongings, I cried for our whole people. I feel really sorry for the people in Syria. My apartment or my property is a very, very small part of this big disaster. Syria looks like hell today. It's completely hell and chaos.

  Osama Alomar

  Sorry, People, Today

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• At this late hour a wagon has been procured, and I have had it filled with plate and the most valuable portable articles, belonging to the house.

  Dolley Madison

  House, Wagons, Hours

  Dolley Madison (1886). “Memoirs and Letters of Dolly Madison: Wife of James Madison, President of the United States”, Boston ; New York, Houghton, Mifflin

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• They don't like the thought of someone else making demands on the person whom they see as belonging entirely to them.

  Jodi Picoult

  Domestic Violence, Demand, Persons

  Jodi Picoult (2002). “Picture Perfect”, p.353, Penguin

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Tragedy was foresworn, in ritual denial of the ripe knowledge that we are drawing away from one another, that we share only one thing, share the fear of belonging to another, or to others, or to God; love or money, tender equated in advertising and the world, where only money is currency, and under dead trees and brittle ornaments prehensile hands exchange forgeries of what the heart dare not surrender.

  William Gaddis

  Heart, Drawing, Hands

  William Gaddis (1955). “The Recognitions: A Novel”

  13 Copy quote

  Show source

• I find that the old Roman baths of this quarter, were found covered by an old burying ground, belonging to the Abbey; through which, in all probability, the water drains in its passage; so that as we drink the decoction of the living bodies at the Pump-room, we swallow the strainings of rotten bones and carcasses at the private bath - I vow to God, the very idea turns my stomach!

  Tobias Smollett

  Ideas, Water, Rotten

  Tobias Smollett (1809). “The Miscellaneous Works of Tobias Smollett: Sir Launcelot Greaves. Humphry Clinker”

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Wholehearted living is about engaging in our lives from a place of
  worthiness. It means cultivating the courage, compassion, and connection
  to wake up in the morning and think, No matter what gets done and
  how much is left undone, I am enough. It’s going to bed at night thinking,
  Yes, I am imperfect and vulnerable and sometimes afraid, but that doesn’t
  change the truth that I am also brave and worthy of love and belonging.

  Brené Brown

  Motivational, Morning, Mean

  Brené Brown (2010). “The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You're Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are”, p.15, Simon and Schuster

  28 Copy quote

  Show source

• If I dropped a tear upon your hand, may it wither it up! If I spoke a gentle word in your hearing, may it deafen you! If I touched you with my lips, may the touch be poison to you! A curse upon this roof that gave me shelter! Sorrow and shame upon your head! Ruin upon all belonging to you!

  Charles Dickens

  Hands, Sorrow, Tears

  Charles Dickens (2016). “Dombey and Son”, p.488, Xist Publishing

  4 Copy quote

  Show source