Quotes About Ownership

Feelings are not something to which one does or does not have rights.

Fault always lies in the same place: with him weak enough to lay blame.

You pay for what you get, you own what you pay for... and sooner or later whatever you own comes back home to you.

When you own a piano, it's harder to think about moving.

He's my cat! He's not God's cat! Let God have his own cat! Let God have all the damn old cats He wants, and kill them all! Church is mine!

My father had taught me - mostly by example - that if a man wanted to be in charge of his life, he had to be in charge of his problems.

Write with the door closed, rewrite with the door open. Your stuff starts out being just for you, in other words, but then it goes out. Once you know what the story is and get it right — as right as you can, anyway — it belongs to anyone who wants to read it. Or criticize it.

Henry Thoreau said that we don't own things; things own us. Every new object—whether it's a home, a car, a television, or a fancy phone like that one—is something more we must carry on our backs.

Fault always lies in the same place, my fine babies: with him weak enough to lay blame.

But I'm going, because all I've ever gotten and all I have now is somehow due to what we did then, and you pay for what you get in this world. Maybe that's why God made us kids first and built us close to the ground, because He knows you got to fall down a lot and bleed a lot before you learn that one simple lesson. You pay for what you get, you own what you pay for . . . and sooner or later whatever you own comes back home to you.

You don't own a thing unless you can give it up, what does it profit a man, it profits him nothing, it profits him zilch, and you don't learn that in school, you learn it on the road, you learn it from Ferd Janklow, and Wolf, and Richard going head-first into the rocks like a Titan II that didn't fire off right.

They must accept responsibility, recognizing that responsibility is not the same as culpability .

We don't own things. Things own us.

I think houses live their own lives along a time-stream that's different from the ones upon which their owners float, one that's slower. In a house, especially an old one, the past is closer.

The only real estate I will ever truly own is the space inside my head and heart. And what I build there is up to me.

To present is to take a stand and being responsible.

You are the only common denominator in everything that has happened to you in life, be it good or bad. To learn/grow from these experiences, you must accept the role you played in each of them.

If it has to be it's up to me.

He Who Owns Himself Is Never Alone.

Free yourself from the need to blame others. There are two reasons that you are where you are right now

Three words will allow you to change your thinking and change your life … "I am responsible.

Even the rich are hungry for love, for being cared for, for being wanted, for having someone to call their own.

Understand that you own nothing. Everything that surrounds you is temporary. Only the love in your heart will last forever.

I love animals and feel very strongly that people should not be allowed to buy a pet if they are not able to look after it.