Quotes about Belong
I long, as does every human being, to be at home wherever I find myself.
- Maya Angelou
The truth of who we are is that we are because we belong.
- Desmond Tutu
As the senses naturally belong to the body, and the desires and affections to the soul, so do the dogmata to the understanding.
- Marcus Aurelius
Now she has power and passion and the struggle has significance for me-let the momentary consequences be what they may. Suppose that in her pride she becomes giddy, suppose that she does break with me-all right! -she has her freedom, but she will still belong to me. That the engagement should bind her is silly-I want to possess her only in her freedom
- Soren Kierkegaard
Any honours that come our way are only stolen from him to whom alone they really belong, the Lord who sent us.
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Who included me among the ranks of the human race?
- Joseph Brodsky
Humans live best when each has his own place, when each knows where he belongs in the scheme of things. Destroy the place and destroy the person. You and I, Thufir, of all those who love the Duke, are most ideally situated to destroy the other's place.
- Frank Herbert
I think it's important to remember that the court itself, the federal government itself belongs to the American people.
- Mike Pence
Unless a man is prepared to ask a woman to be his wife, what right has he to claim her exclusive attention? Unless she has been asked to marry him, why would a sensible woman promise any man her exclusive attention? If, when the time has come for a commitment, he is not man enough to ask her to marry him, she should give him no reason to presume that she belongs to him.
- Elisabeth Elliot
According to the New Testament, saints are those who belong to Christ, in whom Christ lives. We are meant to be saints not only when we get to heaven, but right here in this world.
- Elisabeth Elliot
That was my original dream, anyway, to be on stage. I think the stage is an actor's place because actors, it belongs to you.
- Lauren Bacall
"Music is something that professionals do and not something that I do." That's not natural. Music belongs to everybody.
- Joseph Gordon-Levitt