Famous Quotes & Sayings

Elizabeth McGovern

As far as I can see women who have facelifts don't look younger, just weirder. You see them on screen with these tight, little porcelain faces - then the hand goes up to the face and it looks like it belongs to an alien. I find it really freaky.

As a public servant, you cannot cross that line. ... You can't use things that don't belong to you.

The boy belongs to his father, belongs to his family, and nobody should interfere with that,

Saint Basil

The bread that you store up belongs to the hungry; the coat that lies in your chest belongs to the naked; the gold that you have hidden in the ground belongs to the poor.

At some point, hopefully, we will let everybody know where we belong with our play.

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.

People forget sometimes that this money belongs to the hard-working people of this state. The governor has been very consistent that after all the trust and reserve funds have been repaid and money remains beyond what is needed for core services, the rest ought to go back to the people of this state.

Of course we're disappointed now, but to make this trip up here with these kids, it will show that we belonged and should go a long way towards our program.

Matt Mullenweg

The more money Automattic makes, the more we invest into Free and Open Source software that belongs to everybody and services to make that software sing.

Anything we do extra, that responsibility belongs to CCA from a financial perspective.

The staff of the production crew noticed a person hiding out in one of the buildings and were pretty quickly able to identify that this person didn't belong there,

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.

John Cheever

Strange and predatory and truly dangerous, car thieves and muggers -- they seem to jeopardize all our cherished concepts, even our self-esteem, our property rights, our powers of love, our laws and pleasures. The only relationship we seem to have with them is scorn or bewilderment, but they belong somewhere on the dark prairies of a country that is in the throes of self-discovery.

Somebody took something that belonged to us, that we had taken care of. That's the frustrating part.

Some people were saying we didn't belong here.

Scott Carpenter

Space is not an enterprise that belongs to the U.S. or to Russia or to China - it is a human endeavor and experience. And that's as it should be.

Greg Abbott

Texas functions best when public officials recognize that government does not belong to them but to the people,

Sometimes in divorce cases, where the non-custodial parent will claim that child as the dependent, from the IRS perspective, the dependent belongs to the custodial parent.

Technology for patient-specific embryonic stem cells belongs to South Korea. And you will find out that this is true.

Corey Perry

Ryan and I worked as hard as we could every day. All we wanted to do was to show that we belonged up here, that we wanted to stay up here and that we never have to play another game down there.

Ryan makes plays because of his intelligence He knows where he belongs ... knows his assignments which helps him play faster.

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.

I've paid my dues and I feel like I belong here and I'm ready.

Carl Pope

These public lands are icons of our natural and cultural history. They belong to us all, and it is not up to congressmen Pombo or Tancredo to offer them to the highest bidder.

Larry Klayman

The sheriff told him unless he got off the entire property, that everything was going to be seized and would all belong to the state.

I spent 34 days in this vehicle in my life. As much as a person can love a machine, I really love that bird. Look at this magnificent sight, back where it belongs with the people who take care of her. I want to thank the folks who lent us this orbiter. We took as good as care of it as we possibly could.

Bob Hill

I see these lands as belonging to the people of Nipomo and California, not the Land Conservancy.

John Updike

I seem to have this need to belong to some church. I get worried on Sunday mornings.

Bernie Bickerstaff

I understand the historical significance of this. This building is terrific. ... You know what I'm pleased about? When the guys walk through the building they see things that please them. They're happy they have something that belongs to them.

John Anderson

The whole purpose is to really establish something that might be seen as a de facto marriage and I just don't support them. I regard marriage as something that belongs to a man and a woman. We extend extraordinary freedoms for people to choose their lifestyle but I actually think that marriage involves a man and a woman committing themselves to one another for the purposes of providing an appropriate environment for children to grow up in.