Quotes About Ownership

Everything I own has some significance to me.

When you sign over your music to the BBC or Channel 4, you are signing it over, and they either use it, or they don't.

When my daughter was young, she thought all electronic signs were mine.

Every woman must own her story; otherwise we are all part of the silence.

You cannot make money with a hockey team. You cannot make money with a hotel, either, and you cannot make money with a golf club. I have all three of them. When you have a certain amount of money, you do silly things - because it's pretty to have a golf course and it's interesting to have a hockey team.

Casting yourself as a victim is the antithesis of doing your work. Don't do it. If you're doing it, stop.

The power to take charge was in my hands; all I had to do was believe it.

the ordeal had been rendered tolerable, now that I could tell myself it was my own idea.

I was part of that too, and I apologize.

We been in this house forty year," he said. "Bought it back in nineteen and forty-three for four thousand dollar. Bet you never heard of a house that cheap. Now it's worth one hunnert and fifteen thousand. Just the lot we're settin' on. That don't even count the house. They can knock

I'd chosen the regret I could live with best, that's all. I'd chosen the life I belonged to.

At the age of eleven, I owned a slave I couldn't free.O

Heavier or not, the truth is yours now.

We women harbor our intimacies in locked places in our bodies. They are ours to relinquish when we choose.

That's when I got true religion. I didn't know to call it religion back then, didn't know Amen from what-when, I just knew something came into me that made me feel the water belonged to me. I would say, that's my water out there.

I personally keep slave documents listing the value of slaves framed on my wall in California, and in my office in Chicago.

the Russell slaves name Tom has his own blacksmith shop on East Bay. Missus Russell let him work for hire all day

I'd chosen the regret I could live with best, that's all. I'd chosen the life I belonged to. (Sarah Grimke's character)

take credit, but it's all you. On a balmy afternoon

Every woman should have a purse of her own.

stolen property vanishes because somebody has taken it; that a murdered man dies because somebody has killed him.

The question is: Who owns the truth about what color the company is? The answer? Every single person in the company, including the entry-level file clerk, owns a piece of the truth about what color the company is. The operative word is piece. No one, not even the CEO, owns the entire truth, because no one can be in all places at all times.

Photographs objectify: they turn an event or a person into something that can be possessed.

To photograph people is to violate them as they never see themselves, by having knowledge of them they can never have; it turns people into objects that can be symbolically possessed.