Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

I placed my new novel, 'The Book of Lost Fragrances', in Paris, knowing it would be a challenge. But the book belonged in the city that is one of the greatest perfume capitals of the world and has been since for more than three centuries.

Clearly, Mrs. Parks was bigger than her natural family. She was bigger than her church family. She belonged to the whole world,

Dick Gregory

Civil Rights: What black folks are given in the U.S. on the installment plan, as in civil-rights bills. Not to be confused with human rights, which are the dignity, stature, humanity, respect, and freedom belonging to all people by right of their birth.

I gave the orders to salvage it, ... I think that whistle belongs to the citizens of Canton. I didn't want it going to a scrap yard for brass.

It helps convince (him) that he belongs playing in the major leagues. He's a winning player. He understands situational baseball, he can steal, he knows how to read pitchers.

Honest people do not exist any more, the world today belongs to Liars like me and YOu.

Jeff Gordon

Honestly, if we perform this weekend like we have the last few, we don't belong in the Chase anyway. You know, all we're going to do is go out there and finish 10th in the points.

High school softball belongs on the high school campus. The senior high students are already here.

He's our cover guy. That's who we put on the opposing team's best person that game. I think he'll be outstanding. I didn't know where he'd fit last year. He quickly showed he belonged out there.

John Jeremiah Sullivan

I don't read a lot of books that were published after 1755. One thing about having friends in New York who belong to the literary world, however, is that I have a steady stream of books coming to the house.

I don't know if we even belong with these horses, but you sure hope you do.

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.

Chris Scelfo

In the worst natural disaster in the history of the United States, you've got to stoop pretty low to do that. You're lower than dirt. I'm not going to tolerate that. There's people in our business that don't belong in our business.

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.

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.

A team from the FSL (Forensic Science Laboratory) has visited the site and examined the skeletons for over two hours. The initial inquiry has revealed that the skeletons do belong to men and have indeed been here since a very long time. We need to take them to the laboratory for any further details but as the villagers were not keen to have them removed, we have left it at that for now.

All of us understand the victims' plight. They are not the property of any side to this lawsuit. Their collective loss belongs to the country.

Joe Girardi

A big part of my job is making sure these guys understand they belong in the big leagues and they can do it. That's going to be my message, that just because you're young doesn't mean you can't play. I expect you to do it just like you did in Double-A and Triple-A. It's the next step up, but if you make your pitch it's a good pitch.

Joe Girardi

A big part of my job is making sure that these guys understand that they belong in the big leagues and they can do it.

Vince Carter

It's just getting him to believe, getting him to realize he's definitely an offensive threat. He's starting to realize he definitely belongs in this league.