Famous quotes containing the word belonging:
“Being human signifies, for each one of us, belonging to a class, a society, a country, a continent and a civilization; and for us European earth-dwellers, the adventure played out in the heart of the New World signifies in the first place that it was not our world and that we bear responsibility for the crime of its destruction.”
—Claude Lévi-Strauss (b. 1908)
“So I wasnt dreaming, after all, she said to herself, unlessunless were all part of the same dream. Only I do hope its my dream, and not the Red Kings! I dont like belonging to another persons dream, she went on in a rather complaining tone: Ive a great mind to go and wake him, and see what happens!”
—Lewis Carroll [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson] (18321898)
“In all cultures, the family imprints its members with selfhood. Human experience of identity has two elements; a sense of belonging and a sense of being separate. The laboratory in which these ingredients are mixed and dispensed is the family, the matrix of identity.”
—Salvador Minuchin (20th century)