Quotes about Belonging
No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.
— John Donne
That man's the best cosmopolite Who loves his native country best.
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
Every man is somebody because he is a child of God.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
No man is an island unto himself.
— John Donne
We must re-grasp the idea of church membership as being the membership of the body of Christ and as the biggest honour which can come man's way in this world.
— Martyn Lloyd-Jones
Our new life in Christ is the basis for our true identity.
— Neil Anderson
I'm tri-racial: African-American, Native American and Euro - that's the Scotch-Irish part.
— Alice Walker
During the twenty years of Odesseus' absence, the people of Ithaca retained many recollections of him but never felt nostalgia for him. Whereas Odysseus did suffer nostalgia, and remembered almost nothing. ..... For four long books of the Odyssey he had retraced in detail his adventures before the dazzled Phaeacians. But in Ithaca he was not a stranger, he was one of their own, so it never occurred to anyone to say, 'Tell us!
— Milan Kundera
From childhood, she had regarded books as the emblems of a secret brotherhood.
— Milan Kundera
Consciousness of being loved separates a woman from the herd
— Milan Kundera
Because everyone applauds him as a nice, very cosmopolitan Scandinavian who's already forgotten all about the place he comes from.
— Milan Kundera
Sabina once allowed herself to be taken along to a gathering of fellow emigres. As usual, they were hashing over whether they should or should not have taken up arms against the Russians. In the safety of emigration, they all naturally came out in favor of fighting. Sabina said: Then why don't you go back and fight?
— Milan Kundera