Famous Quotes & Sayings

We definitely realized the importance of this game coming in. This game was our first test in the district, and we needed to show people we belonged in AAA.

We don't have a place for victims to go and speak and talk to each other. I've belonged to victims' groups before, and sometimes they're wonderful and sometimes they're not.

I've changed Sydney. It's my city, my people. I'm theirs. We belong to each other.

My father, Dines Pontoppidan, belonged to an old family of clergymen and was himself a minister.

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.

Wale

I never understood the idea that I was a 'backpack rapper.' I think that's a lazy way that people started thinking. They like saying that because I got dreads. I look like I belong a certain place, so it's easy to put everything in a box.

William Davies

The more help a person has in his garden, the less it belongs to him.

Wadah Khanfar

The best people to provide valuable information about any society are the children of that society who belong to its culture and are part of its collective conscience.

Wanda Sykes

Sometimes black people really want to hold onto our oppression - 'This is ours! This belongs to us.' You can't just talk about equality for somebody else. Let's pass it on. Let's pass it on to somebody else. At the end of the day, it is all about inequality.

Ben Hecht

I discovered early in my movie work that a movie is never any better than the stupidest man connected with it. There are times when this distinction may be given to the writer or director. Most often it belongs to the producer.

Those were key things. Most of the head-to-heads (versus D-S) at the tape, we won. The 100, 200, 400, 800, 1,500 and 3,000 - that belonged to us.

Those other guys have a case, too, but I think he's very close to those five guys. If he's not in the top five, he's got to be sixth. Personally, I still think he belongs there, because I've seen what he does every game.

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.

Rick Atkinson

That was a pretty fine Army that we had in 1965. By 1973, it was in tatters. It was a disgrace to the country and to itself, to its own heritage, really. So it's, you know, the Army belongs to all 307 million of us. It is our common possession, it's our common heritage. As goes the Army, so goes the republic.

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.

Michael Irvin

When I said 'That belongs to a brother of mine,' I guess he thought maybe he put it in, ... I don't know. I certainly don't want any problems with the police.

Douglas Alexander

When I joined Labour in 1982, I didn't feel I belonged to a party born to power. My repeated experience was of bitter and repeated defeats.

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.

Carole Bouquet

People have to identify with their own stories, with their own lives, so a movie belongs to a country and to a culture. Sometimes we can share, but it's very rare.