#belong

Land in Hawaii is money. What I'm talking about here is ceded land - land that belonged to the kingdom and was ceded to the republic and then to the state when we achieved statehood. ↗

— Neil Abercrombie

#achieved #belonged #ceded #hawaii #here

Leave the talking for others and live by walking. Go, go and go extra mile and you will be a true owner of what belongs to you ↗

— Israelmore Ayivor

#belong #beyond #destiny #extra #extra-mile

I've always tried to make a home for myself, but I have not felt at home in myself. I've worked hard at being the hero of my own life. But every time I checked the register of displaced persons, I was still on it. I didn't know how to belong. Longing? Yes. Belonging? No. ↗

— Jeanette Winterson

#displaced #hero #longing #life

I introduced Nora as my wife, though that was a lie. Old people, that's what they wanted to hear. If you were married, you were mature, reliable, exactly like them, because in their day men and women didn't just live together--they made a commitment, they had children and went on cruises and built big houses on lakes and filled them with all the precious trinkets and manufactured artifacts they'd collected along the way. ↗

— T.C. Boyle

#cohabitation #commitment #marriage #maturity #reliability

Characters don't belong to anyone, not even the person who plays them. ↗

— Antonio Banderas

#belong #characters #even #person #plays

Anybody can put things together that belong together. to put things together that don't go together, and make it work, that takes genius like Mozart's. Yet he is presented in the play Amadeus as a kind of silly boy whom the gods loved. ↗

— Lukas Foss

#anybody #belong #boy #genius #go

It is better to take what does not belong to you than to let it lie around neglected. ↗

— Mark Twain

#belong #better #does #lie #neglected

And the success of the union movement, historically, has always been to benefit all working men and women - not just people who belong to the union. ↗

— Warren Beatty

#been #belong #benefit #historically #just

Did you ever notice that the first piece of luggage on the carousel never belongs to anyone? ↗

— Erma Bombeck

#belongs #carousel #did #ever #first

This year, we are going to take our government out of the hands of corporate special interests and put it back into the hands of Ohio families - where it belongs. ↗

— Sherrod Brown

#belongs #corporate #families #going #government