Belongs

Famous quotes containing the word belongs:

    “The word snob belongs to the sour-grape vocabulary.”
    —Logan Pearsall Smith (1865–1946)

    “Gee, boy, when you sing, I can close my ears
    And hear tom-toms just as plain.
    Listen to me, will you, what do I know
    About tom-toms? But I like the word, sort of,
    Don’t you? It belongs to us.”
    —Helene Johnson (b. 1907)

    “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)