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Quotes About Ownership

It has always been the Rule of my Life, not to justify any Words or Actions because they are mine.
~ Charlotte Lennox
Woman" in the abstract is young, and, we assume, charming. As they get older they pass off the stage, somehow, into private ownership mostly, or out of it altogether. But these good ladies were very much on the stage, and yet any one of them might have been a grandmother.
~ Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Woman" in the abstract is young, and, we assume, charming. As they get older they pass off the stage, somehow, into private ownership mostly, or out of it altogether.
~ Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Whatever happens to you belongs to you. Make it yours. Feed it to yourself even if it feels impossible to swallow. Let it nurture you, because it will.
~ Cheryl Strayed
The most terrible and beautiful and interesting things happen in life. For some of you, those things have already happened. Whatever happens to you belongs to you. Make it yours. Feed it to yourself even if it feels impossible to swallow. Let it nurture you, because it will.
~ Cheryl Strayed
Be the captain. You are the captain. Take the ball and run.
~ Cheryl Strayed
The most terrible and beautiful and interesting things happen in a life. For some of you, those things have already happened. Whatever happens to you belongs to you. Make it yours. Feed it to yourself even if it feels impossible to swallow. Let it nurture you, because it will.
~ Cheryl Strayed
The most terrible and beautiful and interesting things happen in a life. For some of you, those things have already happened. Whatever happens to you belongs to you. Make it yours. Feed it to yourself even if it feels impossible to swallow. Let it nurture you, because it will. I have learned this over and over and over again.
~ Cheryl Strayed
So very close, so very present, so very belonging to me.
~ Cheryl Strayed
Whatever happens to you belongs to you. Make it yours. Feed it to yourself even if it feels impossible to swallow. Let it nurture you, because it will. I have learned this over and over and over again.
~ Cheryl Strayed
Most people who own colleges in India haven't. Stupid people go to college. Smart people own them
~ Chetan Bhagat
They are not saviours, and it is unfair to expect them to be. It's not them, but we, who have to solve our problems.
~ Chetan Bhagat
they drive your nation, but just as a hired driver drives a bus. The driver cannot start believing he owns the bus. The driver should also know that if he doesn't drive well, he will be removed.
~ Chetan Bhagat
It's not them, but we, who have to solve our problems.
~ Chetan Bhagat
A felicidade Morava tão vizinha Que, de tolo Até pensei que fosse minha Chico Buarque
~ Chico Buarque
I saw above a sea of hills A solitary planet shine, And there was no one near or far To keep the world from being mine.
~ Sara Teasdale, "Autumn Dusk"
Did you ever notice: when you put the two words "The" and "IRS" together, it spells "THEIRS"?
~ Soupy Sales
I wasn't satisfied with "Stuart Little" on TV, but I didn't expect to be... It is the fixed purpose of television and motion pictures to scrap the author, sink him without a trace, on the theory that he is incompetent, has never read his own stuff, is not responsible for anything he ever wrote, and wouldn't know what to do about it even if he were.
~ E. B. White, letter, 1966
The land is everyone's and no one's.
~ Tom Brown, Jr.
When asked by an anthropologist what the Indians called America before the white man came, an Indian said simply, "Ours."
~ Vine Deloria, Jr.
Opinion is a flitting thing But truth outlasts the sun, If then we cannot own them both, Possess the oldest one.
~ Emily Dickinson
Don't let the hours own you.
~ Terri Guillemets
The only thing I need to take personally is my person.
~ Karen Casey & Martha Vanceburg
I'm only going to stand before God and give an account for my life, not for somebody else's life. If I have a bad attitude, then I need to say there's no point in me blaming you for what's wrong in my life.
~ Joyce Meyer