Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Ricardo

In stating the principles which regulate exchangeable value and price, we should carefully distinguish between those variations which belong to the commodity itself, and those which are occasioned by a variation in the medium in which value is estimated, or price expressed.

Francois Mauriac

We do not know the worth of one single drop of blood, one single tear. All is grace. If the Eternal is the Eternal, the last word for each one of us belongs to Him. This is what I should have told this Jewish child. But I could only embrace him weeping.

John Edward

This democracy, this government does not belong to that crowd of insiders in Washington and their lobbyists. It belongs to you, and we are going to restore the power in this democracy back to you. That's who it belongs to.

This College of Agriculture was not established to serve or to magnify Cornell University. It belongs to the people of the State. The farmers of the State have secured it. Their influence has placed it here. They will keep it close to the ground. If there is any man standing on the land, unattached, uncontrolled, who feels that he has a disadvantages and a problem, this College of Agriculture stands for that man.

This family was brought into a fraternity no parent wants to belong to.

This excess money belongs to the Portola Valley taxpayer.

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.

RANSOM, n. The purchase of that which neither belongs to the seller, nor can belong to the buyer. The most unprofitable of investments.

Ray's generosity is helping upgrade the lake. We wish we had more neighbors like him. He's putting plant growth where it belongs -- in the wetlands. A guy who is so sensitive about nature is rare.

Probably because it's unique. People want to belong somewhere. It's a country club lifestyle without the golf course in the back.

Mark Richt

The team that is being told that they don't belong or they can't win, usually that team is really hungry. So for us, we've got to make sure we can match the intensity that I'm sure West Virginia is going to bring.

Juliette Binoche

The themes have to do with immigration, our past, and are we guilty when we're 6 years old, ... For me, the big subject is not what my husband in the film (Daniel Auteuil) has done as a child, but in not recognizing his fault, he's damaged someone's life. The theme is universal; it doesn't just belong to the French-Algerian past, but triggers something we all can share.

It's a step in the right direction. The illegal presence of those settlers in a land that belonged to Palestinians was a major cause of the ongoing conflict and confrontations. So correcting this injustice by removing those settlers and bringing back the land to its natural and legal owners is going to contribute, hopefully, to the prospects of peace between the two sides.

The world belongs to the rascals, Heaven belongs to the good

Deborah Eisenberg

The world belongs to no one. There are very few people who fit into the world. And part of the struggle of every human life is to somehow claim a place on the planet, but it's at the forefront of the experience of the wandering race. The wandering people.

Simon Wiesenthal

(The ruling is) a victory of history over hate, ... Today's decision definitely places Irving where he belongs -- not as a historian, but as a leading apologist for those who seek to whitewash the most heinous crime in human history.

Geno Auriemma

You're not certain you belong in this company.

You're impressed with the way he acts. He looks like he's a kid that belongs here and knows he can play here. He's not brash about it. He's got the quiet confidence that you see in good, young players.

Jacob K. Javits

You must remember, my own philosophy is that you don't belong only to yourself. You have an obligation to the society which protected you when you were brought into the world, which taught you, which supported you and nurtured you. You have an obligation to repay it.

Governor Lynch thinks the cuts are unfortunate, but it is a decision that belongs to the University of New Hampshire and the university system.

Gossiping doesn't belong in the office. Most of us don't want to hear somebody else's personal drama. If there's good news ... graduation, a new house ... but the negative stuff doesn't have a place in the office.

Jose Contreras

All of the good houses belong to people who have emigrated.

Lewis B. Smedes

What is a disloyal act? A person is disloyal if he treats you as a stranger when, in fact, he belongs to you as a friend or partner. Each of us is bound to some special others by the invisible fibers of loyalty.

These are cultural treasures, ... and they really do not belong to any one person, they belong to a society, a culture, and they should be enjoyed by everyone. ICE's mission is to stop the illicit trade in these artifacts, to track down and return these items and make sure they go back to their rightful owners.

This has nothing to do with what party you belong to, this is a responsibility for us to be fiscally responsible and help the citizens of our community.

William Burroughs

All knowledge all discoveries belong to everybody. . . . All knowledge all discoveries belong to you by right. It is time to demand what belongs to you.

And she went, and came, and gleaned in the field after the reapers: and her hap was to light on a part of the field belonging unto Boaz, who was of the kindred of Elimelech.

All things belong to God; all places belong to God. I am forever a sacrifice to God.

Baltasar Gracian

All that really belongs to us is time; even he who has nothing else has that.

The garden it was in was quite a nice one so we knew it didn't belong there .

The goal clearly must be that people who live here permanently are not foreigners, not guests, but belong to society,

Gaby Hoffmann

When people are struggling, that's a painful place to be in, to not know who you are and where you belong and what you desire.

The last year and a half the bookkeeping was not filed and kept as neat as it should have been. This I have no excuse other than I was working too many jobs and didn't have the time. But during this time I did not take money that did not belong to me either in a paycheck or reimbursement for expenses or supplies purchased.