Concrete poets continue to turn out beautiful things, but to me they're more visual than oral, and they almost really belong on the wall rather than in a book. I haven't the least idea of where poetry is going.
James Laughlin

Creeds and castes, and all forms of intellectual and emotional grouping, belong to the past.
Herbert Read

Despair is typical of those who do not understand the causes of evil, see no way out, and are incapable of struggle. The modern industrial proletariat does not belong to the category of such classes.
Vladimir Lenin

Divine right went out with the American Revolution and doesn't belong to the White House aides. What meat do they eat that makes them grow so great?
Sam Ervin

Don't let anyone call you a minority if you're black or Hispanic or belong to some other ethnic group. You're not less than anybody else.
Gwendolyn Brooks

Either we are all free, or we fail; democracy must belong to all of us.
Dennis Chavez

Every child is going to grow up. You can see it happen in the books: They get older and older and belong to themselves to a greater and greater extent.
Jock Sturges

Every Englishman is convinced of one thing, viz.: That to be an Englishman is to belong to the most exclusive club there is.
Ogden Nash

For a while, I thought a lot about lineage. Where do I belong? Who am I standing next to?
Jim Hodges

Forgiveness to the injured does belong; but they ne'er pardon who have done wrong.
John Dryden

Gang violence in America is not a sudden problem. It has been a part of urban life for years, offering an aggressive definition and identity to those seeking a place to belong in the chaos of large metropolitan areas.
Dave Reichert

Government works less efficiently when it begins to grow out of control and takes on more and more of the responsibilities that belong to the citizens.
Jesse Ventura

Great woman belong to history and to self sacrifice.
Leigh Hunt

He felt the loyalty we feel to unhappiness - the sense that is where we really belong.
Graham Greene

High rank and soft manners may not always belong to a true heart.
Anthony Trollope

Humans are amphibians - half spirit and half animal. As spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time.
C. S. Lewis

I am a Republican, a black, dyed in the wool Republican, and I never intend to belong to any other party than the party of freedom and progress.
Frederick Douglass

I belong to a church and I try to do my Christian duty, so I am against alcohol... But we need the tax money.
Walter Allen

I belong to a nation which over the past centuries has experienced many hardships and reverses. The world reacted with silence or with mere sympathy when Polish frontiers were crossed by invading armies and the sovereign state had to succumb to brutal force.
Lech Walesa

I belong to a specific category of writers, those who speak and write in a language different from that of their parents.
Tahar Ben Jelloun