#belongs

The ancient Roman code belongs to a class of which almost every civilised nation in the world can show a sample, and which, so far as the Roman and Hellenic worlds were concerned, were largely diffused over them at epochs not widely distant from one another. ↗

— Henry James Sumner Maine

#ancient #another #belongs #civilised #class

But my deepest and most secret love belongs to the fair-haired and the blue-eyed, the bright children of life, the happy, the charming and the ordinary. ↗

— Thomas Mann

#blue-eyed #bright #charming #children #deepest

Culture, which makes talent shine, is not completely ours either, nor can we place it solely at our disposal. Rather, it belongs mainly to our country, which gave it to us, and to humanity, from which we receive it as a birthright. ↗

— Jose Marti

#birthright #completely #country #culture #disposal

When a book leaves your hands, it belongs to God. He may use it to save a few souls or to try a few others, but I think that for the writer to worry is to take over God's business. ↗

— Flannery O'Connor

#book #business #few #god #hands

They can rule the world while they can persuade us our pain belongs in some order is death by famine worse than death by suicide, than a life of famine and suicide...? ↗

— Adrienne Rich

#death #famine #life #order #our

I don't think the area of Jerusalem should be part of a Jewish state; it belongs to all people, to Christians and Muslims and the Jewish people. ↗

— Patti Smith

#belongs #christians #i #jerusalem #jewish

We cannot certainly, have any excuse either for taking any thing that belongs to our masters without their leave, or for being unfaithful in their business. ↗

— Jupiter Hammon

#being #belongs #business #cannot #certainly

Hollywood is much more than America. Hollywood belongs to all of the planet. ↗

— Michel Hazanavicius

#belongs #hollywood #more #much #planet

The earth belongs to the living, not to the dead. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#dead #earth #living

World belongs to humanity, not this leader, that leader or that king or prince or religious leader. World belongs to humanity. ↗

— Dalai Lama

#humanity #king #leader #prince #religious