(358 quotes found)
“I won't belong to any organization that would have me as a member”
Groucho Marx
“Don't tell me that man doesn't belong out there. Man belongs wherever he wants to go -- and he'll do plenty well when he gets there.”
Werner von Braun
“A place belongs forever to whoever claims it hardest, remembers it most obsessively, wrenches it from itself, shapes it, renders it, loves it so radically that he remakes it in his own image.”
Joan Didion
“To the victors belong the spoils.”
Andrew Jackson
“It is no good casting out devils. They belong to us, we must accept them and be at peace with them.”
D.H. Lawrence
“It's the most precious thing...to know absolutely where you belong. There's a whole emotional wrapping-around-of-you-here. You see the same rock, tree, road, clouds, sun – you develop a nice kind of intimacy with the world around you. To be intimate is to grow, to learn... [it] is absolutely fulfilling. Intimacy, that's my magic word for why I live here.”
Tessie Naranjo
“Being human signifies, for each one of us, belonging to a class, a society, a country, a continent and a civilization; and for us European earth-dwellers, the adventure played out in the heart of the New World signifies in the first place that it was not our world and that we bear responsibility for the crime of its destruction.”
Claude Levi-Strauss
“I seriously object to seeing on the screen what belongs in the bedroom.”
Samuel Goldwyn
“Jesus died for somebody's sins, but not mine - My sins are my own, they belong to me”
Patti Smith
“I celebrate myself, and sing myself, And what I assume you shall assume, For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you”
Walt Whitman
