Famous quotes containing the word belongs:
“Let him see that he does only what belongs to himself and to the hour.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“He touched the soil, caressing its grains between his fingers: “I am this: this earth here, and I have it in my blood. Look at my color; it seems as though the earth faded onto me and onto you too. This country belongs to the black man and each time others tried to take it away from us, we mowed down injustice with our machetes”.”
—Jacques Roumain (1907–1945)
“The national anthem belongs to the eighteenth century. In it you find us ordering God about to do our political dirty work.”
—George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)