Belonging Quote by Salman Rushdie

I've also never written about home in this way before. I guess a lot of it is subconscious and I am intuitively making these…

— Jesmyn Ward

Positive feelings come from being honest about yourself and accepting your personality, and physical characteristics, warts and all; and, from belonging to a family…

— Willard Scott

I have always loved telling stories about families. I love the idea of people who may not choose to be together, but are nonetheless…

— Jeff Lemire

You hear so many stories about families that go through adversity, and then they break apart. But my family is still strong. We all…

— Sony Michel

Friendships are the family we make - not the one we inherit. I've always been someone to whom friendship, elective affinities, is as important…

— Salman Rushdie

“But marrying within one's own family can get monotonous. One has heard all the same family stories, knows all the jokes and all the…

— Margaret George

“These secrets came down my own ornately curved and twisting family line. For family stories are never as direct as history books, and therefore…

— Liz Rosenberg

For someone like me who's lived in the same place her whole life - I mean, I lived three blocks from where I was…

— Susan Straight

“All family stories are important, just as all people are important, and they deserve to be passed along.”

— Karen Chamberlain

I'm known for impressions and family stories.

— Jay Pharoah

Of course, we carry inside of ourselves our parents. Even when they are dead, we carry them inside ourselves. And they are carrying inside…

— Amos Oz

This packrat has learned that what the next generation will value most is not what we owned, but the evidence of who we were…

— Ellen Goodman

“Stories shared in your kitchen will strengthen your family than the stories shared your bedroom”

— Kenneth Mahuka

All of my books are based in some way on my personal experiences, or the experiences of members of my family, or the stories…

— Patricia Reilly Giff

The questions I want to ask will revolve around humans, connection, relationships, family, and stories - what are the stories we tell ourselves and…

— Lulu Wang