Quotes About Ownership

The feudal ownership of land did bring dignity, whereas the modern ownership of movables is reducing us again to a nomadic horde. We are reverting to the civilisation of luggage, and historians of the future will note how the middle classes accreted possessions without taking root in the earth, and may find in this the secret of their imaginative poverty.

Her air and sky were theirs, not the timorous millions' who own stuffy little boxes, but never their own souls.

The way to keep a cat is to try to chase it away.

She recognized that this city was a place that granted you only what you were willing to claim

The biggest mistake that you can make is to believe that you are working for somebody else. Job security is gone. The driving force of a career must come from the individual. Remember: Jobs are owned by the company, you own your career!

Today, there are three kinds of people: the have's, the have-not's, and the have-not-paid-for-what-they-have's.

If you think nobody cares if you're alive, try missing a couple of car payments.

This is the overarching project manager, or leader. The Product Owner manages the Product Backlog.

when we have every right (after all it's "our church"), when we have always done it that way (no reason to change if we like it), and when we are in prominent positions (we have earned it), we can easily make it about us.

We don't own mission, and it is not ours to define.

why make something your responsibility if it doesn't have to be?

Every radish I ever pulled up seemed to have a mortgage attached to it.

Cats have a scam going - you buy the food, they eat the food, they go away that's the deal.

We stole countries with the cunning use of flags. Just sail around the world and stick a flag in. "I claim India for Britain!" They're going "You can't claim us, we live here! Five hundred million of us!" "Do you have a flag …? "No..." "Well, if you don't have a flag, then you can't have a country. Those are the rules... that I just made up!

What we share with another ceases to be our own.

I am Tarzan of the Apes. I want you. I am yours. You are mine.

If in the moonlight from the silent bough Suddenly with precision speak your name The nightingale, be not assured that now His wing is limed and his wild virtue tame. Beauty beyond all feathers that have flown Is free; you shall not hood her to your wrist, Nor sting her eyes, nor have her for your own In any fashion; beauty billed and kissed Is not your turtle; tread her like a dove - She loves you not; she never heard of love.

But she was not made for any man, And she never will be all mine.

The earth, like the sun, like the air, belongs to everyone -- and to no one.

Ask the man who owns one.

I conceive that the land belongs to a vast family of which many are dead, few are living, and countless numbers are still unborn.

Them that's got shall get,Them that's not shall lose,So the Bible said, and it still is news.Mama may have,Papa may have,But God bless the child that's got his own!

If you mess up, 'fess up.

Every man shall bear his own burden.