Famous Quotes & Sayings

We're fortunate that we've earned the right to be where we're at. Now we've got prove that we belong here.

Nina Conti

The character of the monkey just grew from something out of his face and my granddad's personality. They fused, and that's what I ended up with! The monkey belonged to a friend of mine, and I saw that it had such a little beguiling face and it grew from there.

Lena Horne

I told them I belong to the same organizations and clubs Mrs. Roosevelt belongs to, but with a few brave exceptions, I was still unable to do films or television for the next seven years.

Kirk Hammett

Deep Purple definitely belongs in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. 'Cause they had great songs, great musicianship, they had an impact, and they're a huge influence on the heavy metal community as a whole.

Sometimes, of course, I could not belong to the boys club, but that's OK. There are always ways to do what I wanted to do. It doesn't really matter so much to me.

Eric Burdon

There are some songs that don't belong to The Animals that I refuse to give in to and not do. I enjoy singing other people's songs, you know. That's why they're written in the first place.

I consider myself very fortunate indeed to have created a character which has captured the imagination and enthusiasm of so many children worldwide. They are my family, and Spot belongs to them all.

I'm a real genre jumper, but all good music belongs to the same family. I love Dave Sitek, a producer I've been working with a lot since I moved to L.A. He will change the game.

Karen Maitland

I'd love to own Newstead, partly because it belonged to Lord Byron, but also to try to uncover what dark secrets really lie beneath.

Kourtney Kardashian

I have so many pieces that once belonged to my mom and both of my grandmothers. All of these pieces are very sentimental, and I love to wear them. I also have many pieces from my father that I probably cherish the most. I love wearing his dress shirts.

Steve-O

The psychiatric ward was a really creepy place and, hindsight being 20/20, the creepiest thing about it was that I truly belonged there.

The protesters were shouting yesterday that this was a Chinese government because the president of the party that Snyder Rini belongs to is a naturalized Chinese ... so they were saying this is a Chinese-backed government.

We have a really good relationship, and he belongs here. He clearly knew that we wanted him to be here.

We're having a hard time finding the residents who belong to some of the homes,

We really feel this medal belongs to a lot of people who have come before us and who have put in years and years of dedication. We definitely wouldn't be here without those people. They've been building the sport in the U.S. for years.

We didn't win, but I think people know we belonged out here. We didn't make any excuses. We just lined up and played football. And this program's going to keep getting better.

The fact is, this building is posted, and they did not belong here. This was trespassing, entering a building that is not very safe. There's quite likely going to be charges.

Selman Waksman

Streptomycin belongs to a group of compounds, known as antibiotics, which are produced by microorganisms and which possess the property of inhibiting the growth and even of destroying other microorganisms.

Lauren Bacall

That was my original dream, anyway, to be on stage. I think the stage is an actor's place because actors, it belongs to you.

Nina Garcia

My passion for fashion originated in my mother's closet. She was a woman who loved fashion. She enjoyed dressing up a lot, and she had a closet that was like her sacred room that belonged only to her. She wouldn't let us go in and play there very often.

Never in my life did I steal a penny that didn't belong to me.

Tom Colicchio

I started cooking 30-something years ago. When I was 14, 15, I was a short-order cook in a snack bar. That was at a place called the Gran Centurions. It was an Italian-American swim club my parents belonged to.

Tom Smothers

We weren't radical chic. Jane Fonda embarrassed me. We belonged to no political parties. Basically, we were vaudevillians.

Governments and scientists in India need to ensure that politics and religious ideology do not intrude into science. They belong to separate spheres, and if they are not kept separate, it is science in India and the country as a whole that will suffer.

Bjorn Ulvaeus

There are days when I walk through the center of Stockholm when I get this sudden feeling of happiness - a sense of belonging and at the same time gratitude that I'm so privileged that I can live my life in my city.

Alex Kapranos

Ideally, musicians belong outside the Establishment. When they cross that line, it's like something in them has died.

This school will embrace him. We're a family here and he is going to feel like he has belonged here since day 1. We will make sure that he is successful.

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.

There is no more reason why the features belonging to a picture should be distorted for the purpose of such imaginative suggestion than that the poet's metaphors should spoil his words for the ordinary uses of man.

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.

I used to work for an SOE. The wealth I created didn't belong to me. In other words, I was only managing money for the country and the people.

Aaron Patzer

Be careful not to start a company that really belongs as a feature of another company, like the 25 Twitter URL shortener companies out there. Pick a real problem that's here to stay.