Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Wanda Sykes

Sometimes black people really want to hold onto our oppression - 'This is ours! This belongs to us.' You can't just talk about equality for somebody else. Let's pass it on. Let's pass it on to somebody else. At the end of the day, it is all about inequality.

Mack Brown

You don't belong in a game like this if you don't feel good about yourself and walk with a swagger. If you think you can be stopped, this isn't the place for you.

We don't have a place for victims to go and speak and talk to each other. I've belonged to victims' groups before, and sometimes they're wonderful and sometimes they're not.

I've changed Sydney. It's my city, my people. I'm theirs. We belong to each other.

My father, Dines Pontoppidan, belonged to an old family of clergymen and was himself a minister.

Montenegro belongs to a rare number of countries that have managed to make progress on every internationally recognisable indicator.

Garry Wills

I have been an outsider in journalism and in the academy, because I never fully belonged to any of them.

Giancarlo Esposito

The more I get connected to my own breath and my own yogic experience and my own prayer and my own idea, the ideas that have existed for so long - that we all belong to each other and we could live a deeper spiritual existence - the more I get connected to that, the more I shun this world.

Yotam Ottolenghi

Nearly all edible seaweeds - or 'sea vegetables,' as they ought technically to be called - belong to one of three broad groups: green, red and brown algae.

Ellen Key

A new principle cannot be put into effect without bringing with it new mistakes. But we may, however, be convinced that the laws of life - to which belongs the law that suffering follows the misuse of freedom - will finally be able to bring everything within its right limits.

Eartha Kitt

I don't carry myself as a black person but as a woman that belongs to everybody. After all, it's the general public that made me - not any one particular group. So I don't think of myself as belonging to any particular group and never have.

We definitely think we belong up there with the elite teams in the nation if you maybe take away a few plays. That's how it goes sometimes.

We definitely realized the importance of this game coming in. This game was our first test in the district, and we needed to show people we belonged in AAA.

Rick Atkinson

That was a pretty fine Army that we had in 1965. By 1973, it was in tatters. It was a disgrace to the country and to itself, to its own heritage, really. So it's, you know, the Army belongs to all 307 million of us. It is our common possession, it's our common heritage. As goes the Army, so goes the republic.

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.

Vince Staples

Separation is very important to me. I don't strive to be a celebrity. My music has nothing to do with me at the end of the day. Once it's made and it's purchased, it belongs to whoever.

David Blunkett

What is it that unites, on the left of British politics, George Orwell, Billy Bragg, Gordon Brown and myself? An understanding that identity and a sense of belonging need to be linked to our commitment to nationhood and a modern form of patriotism.

Perhaps the most important lesson of the New Social Historians is that history belongs to those about whom or whose documents survive.

Lewis B. Smedes

Jesus said that we should render to the state what properly belongs to the state, and though he had taxes in mind, we might reasonably infer that giving the state the job of punishing wrongdoers is one way of giving the state its due.

Vinny Testaverde

Football is about winning; it's that simple. You have to love what you do. If you're here for the money, than you don't belong here.

Markus Naslund

Right now, I don't think I belong in the worlds.

Personnel belonging to either of these categories who remain in Kosovo after midnight tonight will be subject to robust KFOR enforcement,

Poetry, good sir, in my opinion, is like a tender virgin, very young, and extremely beautiful, whom divers others virgins - namely, all the other sciences - make it their business to enrich, polish and adorn; and to her it belongs to make use of them

New York and Connecticut belong to the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative to cut carbon emissions, and New York City has been a leader in energy efficiency.

May, June and July are the heart of the season. We're being strangled out of business on an ocean that belongs to everybody.

Susan Collins

My inclination is to say that FEMA does belong in the Department of Homeland Security.

Margaret Thatcher

One only gets to the top rung of the ladder by steadily climbing up one at a time, and suddenly all sorts of powers, all sorts of abilities which you thought never belonged to you--suddenly become within your own possibility and you think, ''Well, I'll have a go, too.''

Jeremy Paxman

One's teachers all belonged to that generation who were imperialists, and the whole narrative throughout my adolescence was of countries leaving the empire. I find it extraordinary that this purpose which drove how we viewed the world is now considered to be something that has no effect upon us.

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.