belonging Quotes

Stories in families are colossally important. Every family has stories: some funny, some proud, some embarrassing, some shameful. Knowing them is proof of belonging to the family.

The thing that always attracted me to New York was the sense of being in a place where a lot of people had a lot of stories not unlike mine. Everybody comes from somewhere else. Everyone's got a Polish grandmother, some kind of metamorphosis in their family circumstances. That's a very big thing - the experience of not living where you started.

You can take the boy out of Bombay; you can't take Bombay out of the boy, you know.

I don't feel American. I do feel like a New Yorker. I think there's a real distinction there. A city allows you to become a citizen even when you're not a national.

I do think that there is such a thing as human nature, and that the things that we have in common are perhaps greater than the things that divide us.

My children are English, and both of their mothers were English.

I've never rejected the world I came from. To be rejected by it is horrible.

India is my kid sister.

Vancouver is the square root of negative one. Technically it shouldn't exist, but it does. I can't imagine living anywhere else.

Gap clothing allows you to look like you're from nowhere and anywhere.