#belong

Pa never told stories like Grandpa. Or treated the barn like family. Eli knew how Grandpa’s own pa had built the barn by hand, hauling bluestone for the foundation behind a stubborn ox with horns as wide as a tractor. How the smell of the plank walls was like family and how you never washed your chore coat so the animals would smell that you were family, too. ↗

— Sandra Neil Wallace

#author-sandra-neil-wallace #belonging #family #little-joe #nature

I am not generous about telling people who I am and what I like to do because it's my life and it only belongs to me and my friends and family. ↗

— Elena Anaya

#am #because #belongs #family #friends

I'm not Hollywood. I'm a Quarter Rat. I belong here. ↗

— Harry Anderson

#here #hollywood #i #quarter #rat

Fellini belongs to nature. ↗

— Roberto Benigni

#fellini #nature

Rashness belongs to youth; prudence to old age. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#belongs #old #old age #prudence #rashness

No one who has come to true greatness has not felt in some degree that his life belongs to the people, and what God has given them he gives it for mankind. ↗

— Phillips Brooks

#come #degree #felt #given #gives

Candor is a proof of both a just frame of mind, and of a good tone of breeding. It is a quality that belongs equally to the honest man and to the gentleman. ↗

— James F. Cooper

#both #breeding #candor #equally #frame

We are all murderers and prostitutes - no matter to what culture, society, class, nation one belongs, no matter how normal, moral, or mature, one takes oneself to be. ↗

— R. D. Laing

#class #culture #how #matter #mature

There are certain romances that belong in certain cities, in a certain atmosphere, in a certain time. ↗

— Sammy Davis, Jr.

#atmosphere #belong #certain #certain time #cities

What I like to drink most is wine that belongs to others. ↗

— Diogenes

#drink #i #like #most #others