Famous quotes containing the word belongs:
“Am I not allowed to do what I choose with what belongs to me? Or are you envious because I am generous?”
—Bible: New Testament, Matthew 20:15.
“Late in the afternoon we passed a man on the shore fishing with a long birch pole.... The characteristics and pursuits of various ages and races of men are always existing in epitome in every neighborhood. The pleasures of my earliest youth have become the inheritance of other men. This man is still a fisher, and belongs to an era in which I myself have lived.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“A state is not a state if it belongs to one man.”
—Sophocles (497–406/5 B.C.)