Quotes About Ownership

I don't have the luxury of having a dog myself because I travel too much, but I love walking and cuddling somebody else's dog.

You probably love to tell kids to get off your lawn, too.

I've always had a love for making things my own.

Maybe that was how it was with all first loves. They own a little piece of your heart, always.

For that is love's nature that it lays claim to exclusive right and that all other claims are nil.

I don't own a Kindle, no. I love books, they are beautiful objects.

I'm just rich. I own businesses and I love it.

Id love to own Newstead, partly because it belonged to Lord Byron, but also to try to uncover what dark secrets really lie beneath.

If I'm going to pour that kind of love and energy and sweat and heartache, all that juju into something, I'm going to lean into my own projects before someone else's.

Love is not about owning someone, but about loving them.

If one uses music that one does not really love, then one will not succeed in making it one's own.

and we might as well give up, because Standard Oil owns everything. He said they own Standard Brands, which in turn own Safeway Stores, which in turn own Pacific Fruit and Produce, which in turn has mortgages on all the farms. He says they are responsible for all the wars and that we are all just slaves being allowed to exist until the time comes when we can go into the trenches to protect Standard Oil.

Mother, what am I going to do?' Beezus demanded. 'It's checked out on my card and I'm responsible. They won't let me take any more books out of the library, and I won't have anything to read, and it will all be Ramona's fault. She's always spoiling my fun and it isn't fair!' Beezus didn't know what she would do without her library card. She couldn't get along without library books. She just couldn't, that was all.

Ramona grabbed the book. "It's mine. I told you it was mine!" Then she turned to Beezus and said triumphantly, "You said people didn't buy books at the library and now you just bought one!

Besides, why wasn't the top of the bottle screwed on tight? Because some grown-up had not screwed it on, that's why. Children weren't the only people who did things wrong.

Mother, what am I going to do? Beezus demanded. It's checked out on my card and I'm responsible. they won't let me take any more books out of the library, and I won't have anything to read, and it will all be Ramona's fault. She's always spoiling my fun and it isn't fair! Beezus didn't know what she would do without her library card. She couldn't get along without library books. She just couldn't, that was all.

Now if he could only keep him quiet for fifteen minutes they would be home and Ribsy would be his for keeps.

You shouldn't leave your crayon on other people's beds where it can get sat on.

The older you get the more it seems the world belongs to other people.

My first rule of consumerism is never buy anything you can't make your children carry.

Other than in churches and a few wealthy homes, window glass was a rarity well into the 1600s. Eleanor Godfrey, in her history of glass-making, notes how in 1590 an alderman in Doncaster left his house to his wife but the windows to his son. The owners of Alnwick Castle from the same period always had their windows taken out and stored when they were away to minimize the risk of breakage.

What a joy it is to arrive after dark at a snug-looking house, its windows filled with welcoming light, and know that it is yours and that inside is your family.

My father once owned a McGregor Glen Plaid Visa-Versa Reversible Jacket and got real pleasure from showing people, including total strangers, how you could turn it inside out and have a second, bonus jacket. "That's why it's called Visa-Versa," he would explain, as if revealing one of the secrets of the universe.

They explained to me that this is simply an affliction of age. The older you get the more it seems the world belongs to other people.