Famous quotes containing the word belongs:
“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 (1819–1892)
“Some are dinning in our ears that we Americans, and moderns generally, are intellectual dwarfs compared with the ancients, or even the Elizabethan men. But what is that to the purpose? A living dog is better than a dead lion. Shall a man go and hang himself because he belongs to the race of pygmies, and not be the biggest pygmy that he can? Let every one mind his own business, and endeavor to be what he was made.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Peg: Who are you?
Alice: I’m nobody.
Peg: Oh now, don’t sulk. We’re all nobody. “Nobody” is anybody who belongs to somebody. So if you belong to nobody, you’re somebody. Understand?”
—Abraham Polonsky (b. 1910)