Quotes About Ownership

Broad acres are a patent of nobility; and no man but feels more of a man in the world if he have a bit of ground that he can call his own. However small it is on the surface, it is 4000 miles deep; and that is a very handsome property.

The landscape should belong to the people who see it all the time.

Whatever is not nailed down is mine. Whatever I can pry loose is not nailed down.

I don't really feel my poems are mine at all. I didn't create them out of nothing. I owe them to my relations with other people.

Of a rich man who was mean and niggardly, he said, "That man does hot possess his estate, but his estate possesses him."

Property has its duties as well as its rights.

Possession, they say, is eleven points of the law.

Mine is better than ours.

There can be to the ownership of anything no rightful title which is not derived from the title of the producer and does not rest upon the natural right of the man to himself.

The instinct of ownership is fundamental in man's nature.

The reason why men enter into society is the preservation of their property.

Property is theft.

Property exists by grace of the law. It is not a fact, but a legal fiction.

The highest law gives a thing to him who can use it.

Is it not lawful for me to do what I will with mine own?

He wouldn't give a duck a drink if he owned Lake Michigan.

The first thing is to love your sport. Never do it to please someone else. It has to be yours.

The equal right of all men to the use of land is as clear as their equal right to breathe the air - it is a right proclaimed by the fact of their existence. For we cannot suppose that some men have a right to be in this world, and others no right.

You have to deal with the fact that your life is your life.

Everybody's business is nobody's business, and nobody's business is my business.

I don't want to be a passenger in my own life.

You need to claim the events in your life to make yourself yours. When you truly possess all you have been and done, which may take some time, you are fierce with reality.

We are taught you must blame your father, your sisters, your brothers, the school, the teachers-you can blame anyone, but never blame yourself. It's never your fault. But it's always your fault, because if you want to change, you're the one who has got to change. It's as simple as that, isn't it?

Blame yourself if you have no branches or leaves; don't accuse the sun of partiality.