Famous Quotes & Sayings

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

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

I am still amazed, as we are in season and it is difficult for any coach in Texas to receive this honor if you are not at the (NSCAA) convention. The honor really belongs to all the great kids who play for Klein, the administration and the community.

My grandparents were from India only. My relations are all in India, my mother belongs to India but the circumstances took a different turn and it all changed. I still have my uncle, I still have my relations (in India), we don't have any relatives here.

Marguerite Duras

Frigidity is desire imagined by a woman who doesn't desire the man offering himself to her. It's the desire of a woman for a man who hasn't yet come to her, whom she doesn't yet know. She's faithful to this stranger even before she belongs to him. Frigidity is the non-desire for whatever is not him.

Ben Okri

I don't think I can make people understand what my writing is about. That really belongs to time and the individual.

I felt like since Christmas we've played very good offensively, shooting about 50 percent, and we've been focusing on getting our defense back to where it belongs and having Phil back tonight certainly helped give us good balance.

Charles Schumer

I don't know of a single senator, Democrat or Republican, who walked away from their meetings saying she belongs on the Supreme Court,

Mitch Daniels

I am honored to be summoned to service by President-elect Bush and look forward to joining him in making bipartisan progress on the issues important to Americans. The federal surplus is a hard-earned accomplishment that belongs to the American people, and I am pleased to help the president-elect ensure that it is used for responsible goals.

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.

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.

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.

Jane Byrne

The credit for much of this rightly belongs to the late Mayor Daley who forged a coalition of business and labor that kept Chicago always moving ahead.

Theodore Roosevelt

The credit belongs to those people who are actually in the arena...who know the great enthusiasms, the great devotions to a worthy cause; who, at best, know the triumph of high achievement; and who,at worst, fail while daring greatly, so that their place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.

Robert Stafford

I think it belongs in a museum. It's something everyone should see. People see it as only one kind, but it is more than that.

It belongs in Petaluma, as far as we're concerned.

Buck Showalter

He comes in knowing people like him and he has something to offer. I haven't seen this look in his eye before, he feels like he belongs here.

He knows (AB849) would immediately draw a legal challenge, ... If he thinks it belongs in the court, this option will get it there.

Teju Cole

In countries with a properly functioning legal system, the mob continues to exist, but it is rarely called upon to mete out capital punishment. The right to take human life belongs to the state. Not so in societies where weak courts and poor law enforcement are combined with intractable structural injustices.

He's a good little offensive player. He looks like he belongs in the majors. This kid knows how to play. And he's a winner.

Pat Buchanan

I think you'll see, just by yourselves, taking a look at the energy and fire and the numbers here, this nomination belongs to us,

I think white pine in some form or another belongs in that forest. It is not a weed.

I think the district belongs to the voters who live there and vote there, ... I'm too busy doing the job I was elected to do to focus too much on an election that's over a year away.

Heywood Broun

The pursuit of happiness belongs to us, but we must climb around or over the church to get it

Rocco Buttiglione

We are firm on this point: what belongs to the Italian people must be returned to the Italian people,

Jose Reyes

He's been working so hard, he's learned a lot. He looks comfortable out there now. He looks like he belongs there.

Human reproduction is now in the hands of men, when it rightfully belongs in the hands of God,

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.

Antoni Gaudi

The straight line belongs to men, the curved one to God.