Own Quotes

It's my old girl that advises. She has the head. But I never own to it before her. Discipline must be maintained.

I embraced being a pop artist, but I like doing it on my own terms, at my own pace.

A lot of people don't want to make their own decisions. They're too scared. It's much easier to be told what to do.

Charlie Brown is the one person I identify with. C.B. is such a loser. He wasn't even the star of his own Halloween special.

Every one speaks well of his own heart, but no one dares speak well of his own mind.

Education should prepare our minds to use its own powers of reason and conception rather than filling it with the accumulated misconceptions of the past.

If the education of our kids comes from radio, television, newspapers - if that's where they get most of their knowledge from, and not from the schools, then the powers that be are definitely in charge, because they own all those outlets.

And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.

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.

Poverty entails fear and stress and sometimes depression. It meets a thousand petty humiliations and hardships. Climbing out of poverty by your own efforts that is something on which to pride yourself but poverty itself is romanticized by fools.

Peace comes when you talk to the guy you most hate. And that's where the courage of a leader comes, because when you sit down with your enemy, you as a leader must already have very considerable confidence from your own constituency.

Frank and explicit - that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and confuse the minds of others.

The virtue of privacy is one that must be protected in matters that are intimate and within one's own family.

The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.

Nature, more of a stepmother than a mother in several ways, has sown a seed of evil in the hearts of mortals, especially in the more thoughtful men, which makes them dissatisfied with their own lot and envious of another s.

God created man in His own image, says the Bible; philosophers reverse the process: they create God in theirs.

I just went and got an agent because I thought I can create my own world - you can't right your own life, but you can escape to a world where you can have control.

The intense happiness of our union is derived in a high degree from the perfect freedom with which we each follow and declare our own impressions.

I think the girl who is able to earn her own living and pay her own way should be as happy as anybody on earth. The sense of independence and security is very sweet.

Women do not have as great a need for poetry because their own essence is poetry.

It is lovely, when I forget all birthdays, including my own, to find that somebody remembers me.

He who has done his best for his own time has lived for all times.

A team is where a boy can prove his courage on his own. A gang is where a coward goes to hide.

Music is everybody's possession. It's only publishers who think that people own it.

My father probably thought the capital of the world was wherever he was at the time. It couldn't possibly be anyplace else. Where he and his wife were in their own home, that, for them, was the capital of the world.

Let everyone sweep in front of his own door, and the whole world will be clean.

My teenage years were exactly what they were supposed to be. Everybody has their own path. It's laid out for you. It's just up to you to walk it.

Everyone ought to bear patiently the results of his own conduct.

I grew up within Italian-American neighborhoods, everybody was coming into the house all the time, kids running around, that sort of stuff, so when I finally got into my own area, so to speak, to make films, I still carried on.

Women in particular need to keep an eye on their physical and mental health, because if we're scurrying to and from appointments and errands, we don't have a lot of time to take care of ourselves. We need to do a better job of putting ourselves higher on our own 'to do' list.