A true conservationist is a man who knows that the world is not given by his fathers, but borrowed from his children.
John James Audubon

About two months into the Whisky, I borrowed some money and rented a remote recording truck.
Johnny Rivers

Courtesies cannot be borrowed like snow shovels; you must have some of your own.
John Wanamaker

Death is the sanction of everything the story-teller can tell. He has borrowed his authority from death.
Walter Benjamin

He that displays too often his wife and his wallet is in danger of having both of them borrowed.
Benjamin Franklin

How well Shakespeare knew how to improve and exalt little circumstances, when he borrowed them from circumstantial or vulgar historians.
Horace Walpole

I borrowed a guitar at age 16 and taught myself to play because I wanted to write songs.
Adrian Belew

I counted on sixty days only, but I held out for 133. I didn't go into power, but to get power I borrowed some power from the President and made him sign a number of decrees and give me enough power to create a system capable of handling crisis situations.
Aleksandr Lebed

I live now on borrowed time, waiting in the anteroom for the summons that will inevitably come. And then - I go on to the next thing, whatever it is. One doesn't, luckily, have to bother about that.
Agatha Christie

I want to share with the American people that President Bush and the Republican majority in just 4 years have borrowed $1.05 trillion from foreign nations. That is selling our country to other nations because of the spending that is going on.
Kendrick Meek

I was too broke to buy a guitar so I more borrowed guitars from friends.
Ronnie Montrose

It's up to the courage of the filmmakers to make art in cinema, not just business. John was rejected by studios, he borrowed money and did movies with his own money. You're either courageous or not. You have to find a way.
Ben Gazzara

Jazz has borrowed from other genres of music and also has lent itself to other genres of music.
Herbie Hancock

John Candy knew he was going to die. He told me on his 40th birthday. He said, well, Maureen, I'm on borrowed time.
Maureen O'Hara

Let your children be as so many flowers, borrowed from God. If the flowers die or wither, thank God for a summer loan of them.
Samuel Rutherford

My first student film was Orientation, which was basically the set-up for Animal House. There are a couple of scenes that we later borrowed in some form.
Ivan Reitman

My songwriting and my style became more complex as I listened, learned, borrowed and stole and put my music together.
Boz Scaggs

Nations have recently been led to borrow billions for war; no nation has ever borrowed largely for education... no nation is rich enough to pay for both war and civilization. We must make our choice; we cannot have both.
Abraham Flexner

Of late years (perhaps as a result of our political changes) art has borrowed from history more than ever.
Alfred de Vigny

Originality is nothing by judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed one from another.
Voltaire