Quotes About Ownership

People find a sense of being, a sense of worth and substance being associated with land. Association with final roots gives us not only a history but proclaims us heirs to a future.

Everybody knows we're entitled to one Jerusalem. History reveals very simply that this is our land from the days of the Bible.

The highest percentage of African Americans own their own homes today than ever in our nation's history.

None of my other investments give me the joy that autographs do because they make me feel that I am holding a piece of history in my hands.

To an American, land is solidity, goodness, and hope. American history is about land.

The White House used to belong to the American people. At least that's what I learned from history books and from covering every president starting with John F. Kennedy.

A country of free men is not free if they are owned by somebody else.

The fellow that owns his own home is always just coming out of a hardware store.

Why should these Palestinians, who have lived in Jerusalem for hundreds of years, be evicted from their homes so that Jews from Brooklyn can live in them?

The people recognize themselves in their commodities; they find their soul in their automobile, hi-fi set, split-level home, kitchen equipment.

The paid-off home mortgage has taken the place of the BMW as the status symbol of choice.

As you know, in this country Anglo-Americans are about 75 to 76 percent home ownership in this country, where Hispanics, African Americans are less than 50 percent.

The most critical factor subduing the demand for housing is that home ownership is no longer seen as the great, long-term buildup in equity value it once was.

Being rich is not about how much money you have or how many homes you own; it's the freedom to buy any book you want without looking at the price and wondering if you can afford it.

Go back home where you came from. This country is mine, and I intend to stay here and to raise this country full of grown people.

I don't buy art. I'd rather buy a beautiful location or a beautiful site than buy art. A beautiful home is like owning a beautiful painting, except you can live in it.

I don't like masterpieces having one-night stands in collectors' homes between auctions.

I don't know that you're ever going to persuade New Zealanders that they're not going to own their own homes and I'm not going to try.

A home without a cat — and a well-fed, well-petted and properly revered cat — may be a perfect home, perhaps, but how can it prove title?

It is one of the great joys of home ownership to fire a pistol in one's own bedroom

I prefer to live in a rented house. No ties. Nothing around my neck. Just the minimum kind of bare comforts of home.

My whinstone house my castle is, I have my own four walls.

The American Dream is ownership a house, a car, a vacation home and, even better, your own business

If you own a home with wheels on it and several cars without, you just might be a redneck.