Quotes About Owner

Fear keepes and looks to the vineyard, and not the owner.

Why, there's nothing to sneer at in mongrels, son. I once read an article by a man named Terhune, a read dog man. And he said there couldn't be a worse mistake then to sneer at the mongrel. Why, in his mind, the mongrel had more cleverness, more stamina, and sometimes more beauty than a purebred. And the only shame, he said, is the owner's failure to bring out his many fine traits.

By the middle of the summer, the team was even bearing his name. An early name-the-team contest had resulted in the club announcing, in the spring of 1946, that it would be known as the Cleveland Panthers. But when the owner of a failed minor league franchise of the '30s claimed rights to the name, Brown decided to ditch it.

But the danger added to the thrill. It was a long shot: perhaps the police would get to the ring first. Perhaps the ring was a fake all along. Perhaps no one would ever find it. But there was a chance, a real chance, that Isildur might end up the owner of the actual ring that had inspired The Lord of the Rings, that had been carried to Iceland by his namesake a thousand years before.

My restaurants are never opened on Thanksgiving I want my staff to spend time with their family if they can. My feeling is, if I can't figure out how to make money the rest of the year so that my workers can enjoy the holidays, then I don't deserve to be an owner.

After all, memoirs are not open doors into another person's house. They are more like broken windows, with the owner trying to explain away all of the damage.

annoyance how the vet's policy of calling out a pet's name rather than that of their owner caused its usual flurry of sniggers.

Who could possibly benefit but another knitting shop owner?

The prison was like a set of dirty teeth, and the land around it was like a bad mouth, and the sky above it was like the grey face of the person who owned the teeth and the mouth and didn't care a damn about either of them.

I rubbed glistening liquid onto the armrests and imagined the hands that would touch the wood, perhaps resting there between turning the pages of a book, perhaps stroking the smooth wood, absently at first, then slipping a bit as the owner slept.

but perhaps no kindness was possible between owner and slave, only varying degrees of brutality?

The man behind the check-in counter gives the impression that he has just axe-murdered the motel's owner (and family, and family pet) and is going through these procedures of hostelry so as not to arouse suspicion.

My mom is two people to me. She's my mom number one, and then she's this lady most comedians know as being a legendary owner of a nightclub that's responsible for starting a lot of heavy careers.

The Bible is not a Christian owner's manual but a story—a diverse story of God and how his people have connected with him over the centuries, in changing circumstances and situations.

However, if the servant gets up after a day or two, the owner shall not be punished, since the servant is his property.

If an ox gores a man or woman to death, the ox must surely be stoned, and its meat must not be eaten. But the owner of the ox shall not be held responsible.

If the ox gores a manservant or maidservant, the owner must pay thirty shekels of silver to the master of that servant, and the ox must be stoned.

the owner of the house shall come and tell the priest, ëSomething like mildew has appeared in my house.í

If, however, the owner decides to redeem the animal, he must add a fifth to its value.

There is a grievous evil I have seen under the sun: wealth hoarded to the harm of its owner,

For wisdom, like money, is a shelter, and the advantage of knowledge is that wisdom preserves the life of its owner.

The ownerís servants came to him and said, ëSir, didnít you sow good seed in your field? Where then did the weeds come from?í

Therefore, when the owner of the vineyard returns, what will he do to those tenants?”

What then will the owner of the vineyard do? He will come and kill those tenants, and will give the vineyard to others.