Famous Quotes & Sayings

The United States being a limited form of government, one of the restrictions to which it is subject is in regard to its power to levy taxes. The States may levy them for a great many purposes for which Congress cannot, because to the States belong all of the powers not delegated to Congress.

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.

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.

Elizabeth McCracken

A comic strip that your parents read when they were young is a curious thing: it's an heirloom, and it's also intimate. You peer through windows and look at the things that made your elders laugh, and then you wonder whether the laugh really belongs to you.

Elizabeth Bibesco

The only thing that matters is to have charm and expression. Then comes that horrible gnawing doubt of our own magnetism. Is it possible that, though we are not lovely, we are not irresistible either? That we will have to go through life belonging neither to the triumphantly beautiful nor to the triumphantly ugly?

Giorgio Napolitano

The institutions of the European Union, and the states that belong to this union, each and every one, are paying the price of our failures, hesitations and contradictions. We should each ask ourselves how personally responsible we are.

We're trying to see who these drugs belong to, ... To talk about (the investigation) would really be irresponsible.

Henry Bates

There are many large houses on this river belonging to what were formerly large and flourishing plantations, but which, since the Revolution of 1835-6, had been suffered to go to decay.

David Bailey

The first half of the 20th century belongs to Picasso, and the second half is about photography. They said digital would kill photography because everyone can do it, but they said that about the box brownie in 1885 when it came out. It makes photography interesting because everyone thinks they can take a picture.

Joseph P. Kennedy

Jack doesn't belong anymore to just a family. He belongs to the country.

Joel Salatin

Instead of buying into the global agenda, which is using food as just industrial stuff, we would say we view food as biological, a living thing, that belongs in smaller communities.

Brian Selznick

I think everything belongs in a certain place, for kids who feel they don't belong anywhere. A museum is an institution like a library where everything has a place, everything belongs.

Rock n' roll really belongs to all America. It really doesn't belong to one city.

Henry B. Eyring

One of the blessings that comes from paying a full tithing is developing faith to live an even higher law. To live in the celestial kingdom, we must live the law of consecration. There we must be able to feel that all we are and all we have belong to God.

Gifford Pinchot

The earth and its resources belong of right to its people

Gayle Forman

I think every teenager feels like a Martian in something, whether it's in their family, I think, or in their school. I think every teenager, every human being has a sense that they don't belong somewhere.

With all due respect to the Conch Republic, the bridge belongs to all the people of Florida, and we're not currently in negotiations to sell it.

With all due respect to the commission, this is not their money, it belongs to the telephone customers who paid the excessive rates in the first place.

Sherwin B. Nuland

Death belongs to the dying and those who love them.

Andrew Cohen

We come at this in a proactive way, at a very high level. We're saying you can save money by managing your information in a proactive and smarter way up front, by thinking about what information belongs in the repository and also by having the right tools to manage that information.

We really didn't feel as if we belonged last year. It's a lot different this year.

When people talk about how you don't belong here, you shouldn't be here - you're a man, your manhood has been challenged. He plays that way, and I love him because he does that.

When people lie, if they play games, if they take money that doesn't belong to them, they are going to go to jail, ... We're working very closely with the criminal authorities and our new certification policy ... will set the stage for people to go to jail for fraud if they misstate their financials.

In India, you see the way they embrace color in the culture - it's very celebratory of the existence of color. There's no rule of what color belongs together or doesn't belong together. They're not precious about it. It's very full-on.

John Wesley Powell

Indian nouns are extremely connotive; that is, the name does more than simply denote the thing to which it belongs - in denoting the object, it also assigns to it some quality or characteristic.

Most of those belong to corporations, and they're now finding their way onto the secondary market. The folks that buy those either have celebrity status or they are another corporation trying to highly impress some very influential clients.

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.

Colin Trevorrow

I would just encourage people: your childhood belongs to you, and don't give anyone, especially me, the power to ruin your childhood.

Javier Solana

I would like to repeat it: the respect for the people that belong to this land is total. The respect to any religion is total.

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.