Famous Quotes & Sayings

Montenegro belongs to a rare number of countries that have managed to make progress on every internationally recognisable indicator.

Garry Wills

I have been an outsider in journalism and in the academy, because I never fully belonged to any of them.

Giancarlo Esposito

The more I get connected to my own breath and my own yogic experience and my own prayer and my own idea, the ideas that have existed for so long - that we all belong to each other and we could live a deeper spiritual existence - the more I get connected to that, the more I shun this world.

Yotam Ottolenghi

Nearly all edible seaweeds - or 'sea vegetables,' as they ought technically to be called - belong to one of three broad groups: green, red and brown algae.

Ellen Key

A new principle cannot be put into effect without bringing with it new mistakes. But we may, however, be convinced that the laws of life - to which belongs the law that suffering follows the misuse of freedom - will finally be able to bring everything within its right limits.

Eartha Kitt

I don't carry myself as a black person but as a woman that belongs to everybody. After all, it's the general public that made me - not any one particular group. So I don't think of myself as belonging to any particular group and never have.

Barack Obama

A mother deserves a day off to care for a sick child or sick parent without running into hardship - and you know what, a father does, too. It's time to do away with workplace policies that belong in a 'Mad Men' episode.

Wole Soyinka

I cannot belong to a nation which permits such barbarities as stoning to death and amputation - I don't care what religion it is.

That water belongs to our rate-payers. Our bottom line is any use of our water has to include compensation.

Reza Aslan

What the printing press is to Christianity in the 16th century, that's what the Internet is doing to Islam now. It has opened up the monopoly over the interpretation of Islam that used to solely belong to the religious class.

We seek for truth in ourselves; in our neighbours, and in its essential nature. We find it first in ourselves by severe self scrutiny, then in our neighbours by compassionate indulgence, and, finally, in its essential nature by that direct vision which belongs to the pure in heart.

Ricky Martin

I want my children to be proud of their father and to say, 'My father is the best dad in the world.' And I want them to belong to a modern family, and live a path of happiness and calm.

Robert Reich

Political scientists after World War II hypothesized that even though the voices of individual Americans counted for little, most people belonged to a variety of interest groups and membership organizations - clubs, associations, political parties, unions - to which politicians were responsive.

Malala Yousafzai

Nelson Mandela is physically separated from us, but his soul and spirit will never die. He belongs to the whole world because he is an icon of equality, freedom and love, the values we need all the time everywhere.

Phillips Brooks

No man has come to true greatness who has not felt that his life belongs to his race, and that which God gives to him, He gives him for mankind.

Ken Levine

To limit oneself to finding a mate on hikes is the wrong thing to do. I belong to Parents Without Partners, Events and Adventures, Space City Mixer and Great Expectations. Stay away from Internet dating. I take dance classes and go to dances. Women love to dance. I met my current girlfriend at a dance, and she comes with me on nearly all my Mountaineers hikes. She likes to bike ride and ski, too.

Gene Robinson

We're using a full flying wing Radio Controlled plane with high resolution digital imaging to check out the area. The plane flies at about a 400- to 500- foot altitude, and can map out about one square mile per flight. Then 'squints' go over the pictures looking for things in the picture that don't belong there.

When I was between 2 and 3 years old, I got to know my first non-human being. The non-human was a cocker spaniel named Baba. We weren't friends, Baba and I, nor enemies. He wasn't my dog. He belonged to the people my mother worked for, and he lived in the house with them and us.

I belong to a generation that has seen the explosion of freedom, the celebration of freedom.

Pat Barker

I didn't belong to the sort of family where the children's classics were laid on. I went to the public library and read everything I could get my hands on.

For-profit does not belong in a taxpayer-funded health system. For-profit means cutting medical services to patients, and payments to providers, to preserve profits.

Peter Morgan

If you don't belong somewhere, that outsider status you have gives you perspective. Of course, another word for outsider is 'exile,' and that's not fun at all.

Members of groups that do not meet regularly together usually do not feel a strong sense of belonging and do not take ownership for the success of the group.

Geri Halliwell

Who knows just where I'm going? ... Does tomorrow belong to me?

Why would you give 22 per cent to your competition? I've never heard of it, where you have your competition making record profits south of the border and Canada has to give 22 per cent. This money belongs to the companies and their shareholders, and the Canadian government is giving it away.

Will Rogers rides again. The Dust Bowl era humorist, who once famously said, 'I don't belong to any organized party. I'm a Democrat,' would feel right at home in his party today.

We can't find a set of keys that belong to the property, and we don't know whether they have it. So we have to replace the locks and the keys, which are a special system.

I'm still trying to prove I belong in this division. I may be a small guy, but I want to be huge in this division.

Most public school teachers are great, but everyone knows there is a small percentage that, frankly, don't belong in the classroom,

We need the students to help. Don't open doors for people who don't look like they belong here. Just tell them to report to the desk.

Robert Green Ingersoll

You need not go back four thousand years for heroines. The world is filled with them today. They do not belong to any nation, nor to any religion, nor exclusively to any race. Wherever woman is found, they are found.

Orison Swett Marden

The great opportunity belongs to him who can see it, to him who can grasp it. The better part of your chance is right inside of you.

Zeresenay Alemseged

Selam is our most complete skeleton of a three-year-old girl who lived and died 3.3 million years ago. She belongs to the species known as Australopithecus afarensis.