Ownership Quotes

Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was another.
Toni Morrison

Yourself, Self, Another

Land: A part of the earth's surface, considered as property. The theory that land is property subject to private ownership and control is the foundation of modern society, and is eminently worthy of the superstructure.
Ambrose Bierce

Society, Control, Earth

When you make a commitment to a relationship, you invest your attention and energy in it more profoundly because you now experience ownership of that relationship.
Barbara de Angelis

Experience, Energy, Attention

I don't look for much to come out of government ownership as long as we have Democrats and Republicans.
Kin Hubbard

Government, Long, Democrats

I am for socialism, disarmament, and, ultimately, for abolishing the state itself... I seek the social ownership of property, the abolition of the propertied class, and the sole control of those who produce wealth. Communism is the goal.
Roger Nash Baldwin

Control, Goal, Social

I'm a big fan of small business ownership. I think it's the backbone of American innovation. But to be successful, you first have to have the courage to go for it.
Bill Rancic

Courage, Business, Successful

When people lack jobs, opportunity, and ownership of property they have little or no stake in their communities.
Jack Kemp

Jobs, Lack, Property

People who own property feel a sense of ownership in their future and their society. They study, save, work, strive and vote. And people trapped in a culture of tenancy do not.
Henry Louis Gates

Work, Future, Society

She plucked from my lapel the invisible strand of lint (the universal act of woman to proclaim ownership).
O. Henry

Woman, She, Act

Marriage as an institution developed from rape as a practice. Rape, originally defined as abduction, became marriage by capture. Marriage meant the taking was to extend in time, to be not only use of but possession of, or ownership.
Andrea Dworkin

Marriage, Time, Practice

The model of ownership, in a society organized round mass consumption, is addiction.
Christopher Lasch

Society, Addiction, Model

We all recognize that Colorado and our nation have a long and storied tradition of gun ownership for hunting, outdoor recreation and self-defense. However, I am not convinced that combat weapons are necessarily part of that heritage.
Mark Udall

Long, Nation, Gun

A child's appetite for new toys appeal to the desire for ownership and appropriation: the appeal of toys comes to lie not in their use but in their status as possessions.
Christopher Lasch

Lie, Child, Desire

It's easy to underestimate the real cost of home ownership.
Suze Orman

Home, Real, Easy

I feel real ownership in this show. I feel very invested in it. I care very much about it. I don't feel any more like a hired hand, you know? It's a strange feeling - I feel personally responsible for how the story goes. What happens. What the weaknesses are. And so in a way, some of the changes gave me an opportunity to have a voice in a different way.
Lauren Graham

Care, Feeling, Real

I don't think I ever got the hang of the writers' room. I love collaborating with people, but I really do my best work alone, and I think I would want to - if I did something again, I think I'd want to take total ownership the way Aaron Sorkin or David Kelley does.
Diablo Cody

Love, Work, Best

People try to put ownership on things: 'That's mine, that's my joke.' No such thing. Like if you tripped or stumbled and people go, 'Oh, that's Charlie Chaplin.' You know what I mean? You can't own a joke. You can be the guy that tells it the best, but you can't own a joke. Nowhere can you own a laugh.
Tommy Chong

Best, Mean, Laugh

I did as much research as I could and I took ownership of this illness, because if you don't take care of your body, where are you going to live?
Karen Duffy

Live, Care, Body

Our goals for this nation must be nothing less than to double the size of our economy and bring prosperity and jobs, ownership and equality of opportunity to all Americans, especially those living in our nation's pockets of poverty.
Jack Kemp

Equality, Nothing, Living

Private ownership of property is vital to both our freedom and our prosperity.
Cathy McMorris

Freedom, Both, Private

I have been mislabeled as a big advocate of low-income home ownership over rental.
Barney Frank

Home, Big, Advocate

Once you're put out there in the public eye, people feel a certain ownership over you.
Mia Wasikowska

Put, Once, Public

Persons who have been homeless carry within them a certain philosophy of life which makes them apprehensive about ownership.
Jerzy Kosinski

Life, Philosophy, Makes

You'll read things and say, this is a really good project and it's probably going to be a hit, but I can see 20 other people playing that part. You have to have some sense of ownership to do a good job and be married to it for ever.
Eric Bana

Good, Job, Sense

High school teachers who want to get reluctant readers turned around need to give the students some say in the reading list. Make it collaborative: The students will feel ownership, and everyone will dig in.
Dave Eggers

School, Give, Around

Intellectual property is an important legal and cultural issue. Society as a whole has complex issues to face here: private ownership vs. open source, and so on.
Tim Berners-Lee

Society, Legal, Important

A city with one newspaper, or with a morning and an evening paper under one ownership, is like a man with one eye, and often the eye is glass.
A. J. Liebling

Morning, Evening, Often

The basic principle which I believe has contributed more than any other to the building of our business as it is today, is the ownership of our company by the people employed in it.
James E. Casey

Business, Today, Company

Most Americans believe that with freedom comes responsibility - and that one measure of responsible gun ownership is a background check. There must be an app for that.
Christine Pelosi

Freedom, Gun, Measure

To be honest with you, I worry about concentration of ownership in media, where you have a handful of media conglomerates largely controlling what we see, hear and read.
Bernie Sanders

Honest, Worry, Read

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