Quotes About Ownership

On one occasion, I accompanied my father to Pinares de Mayari. I was eight or nine years old. How he enjoyed talking when he left the house in Biran! There he was the proprietor of the land where sugar cane, pasture, and other agricultural crops were planted.

No one can stop me from talking about my movie.

You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed.

A sister is someone who owns part of what you own: a house, perhaps, or a less tangible legacy, like memories of your childhood and the experience of your family.

You are someone and you have a right to your life.

Fear not, for I have redeemed you; I have summoned you by name; you are mine.

God's ownership of everything also changes the kind of question we ask in giving. Rather than, "How much of my money should I give to God?" we learn to ask, "How much of God's money should I keep for myself?" The difference between these two questions is of monumental proportions.

First, buy things for their usefulness rather than their status.

there is not a square inch in the whole domain of our human existence over which Christ, who is sovereign over all, does not cry 'Mine!

There is always another heart within the heart, for / what we own is never what we have, what we love / is never what we own — Richard Jackson, from "Francis' Prayer," Broken Horizons (Press 53, 2018)

No need to kill everyone. They know not to let their Chihuahuas piss on my lawn.

Then you better tell whoever is Lucifer, because I'm living in his palace, wearing his clothes, and peeing in his shower.

There's only one way to steal a car and not feel guilty about it, and that's to steal the most expensive car you can find. That way, you know that it carries the maximum insurance possible, so whatever happens, the owner is covered.

Thievery pays for the tools, and the work shows me the mind of God. Stealing is a lot like alchemy, you know. In each, we each try to find what is beautiful and hidden and make it ours.

couple of minutes in my car, signing it over

Sometimes I venture to call my soul my own

When my wife asks what I want for dinner, pasta or chicken, and I say I don't care, what I'm often missing is that she's asking for a little companionship, a little mutual ownership of a decision.

the LP sleeve acquires the same scuffs, knocks and wrinkles as its purchaser. It engenders the same affection as the ageing groove. Reflective

In the end, we all lose it. Remember that. In the end, we own nothing.

Life is not yours to take.

We can only lose what we have first claimed.

It needs to be stated at this point that the ideal of a propertyless Golden Age is a myth—the fruit of longing rather than memory—because historians, archaeologists, and anthropologists concur that there never was a time or place when all productive assets were collectively owned. All living creatures, from the most primitive to the most advanced, in order to survive must enjoy assured access to food and, to secure such access, claim ownership of territory.

You do this, you do. You take the things you love and tear them apart or you pin them down with your body and pretend they're yours.

how you get used to it, how you make the new streets yours.