Quotes about Ownership
Because there just aint nothing justifies the deliberate destruction of what a man has built with his own sweat and stored the fruit of his sweat into.
— William Faulkner
Father said it used to be a gentleman was known by his books, nowadays he is known by the ones he has not returned.
— William Faulkner
Since I gave up to God all ownership in my own life, he has guided me in a thousand ways, and has opened my path in a way almost incredible to those who do not enjoy the blessing of a truly surrendered life.
— William James
What the heart has once owned and had, it shall never lose.
— Henry Ward Beecher
The price is high. God does not want partnership with us, but ownership of us.
— Leonard Ravenhill
An old Scot used to say to us, 'If He is not Lord of all, He is not Lord at all.
— Leonard Ravenhill
The moon and other celestial bodies should be free for exploration and use by all countries. No country should be permitted to advance a claim of sovereignty.
— Lyndon B. Johnson
People must be free to work, to save, to own their own home, to take risks, to invest in each other and, in essence, to control their own lives.
— George H. W. Bush
Men work harder and more readily when they labor on that which is their own.
— Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
Making the landlord and the tenant the same person has certain advantages, as that the tenant pays no rent, while the landlord does a little work.
— GK Chesterton
Putting your name on something and having no idea how it came about if someone else did all the work - that's not me.
— Drew Barrymore
I don't think I ever owned twenty pencils at one time. Wearing down seven number-two pencils is a good day's work.
— Ernest Hemingway