Claiming Ownership Quotes

#1. Freeing yourself was one thing, claiming ownership of that freed self was another.

Toni Morrison

#2. It is a skill we learn early, the art of inventing stories to explain away the fearful scared strangeness of the world. Storytelling and make-believe, like war and agriculture, are among the arts of self-defense, and all of them are ways of enclosing otherness and claiming ownership.

William Kittredge

#3. Motherhood is a choice you make everyday, to put someone else's happiness and well-being ahead of your own, to teach the hard lessons, to do the right thing even when you're not sure what the right thing is ... and to forgive yourself, over and over again, for doing everything wrong.

Donna Ball

#4. The aim of education should be to preserve and nurture the yearning for learning that a child is born with.

W. Edwards Deming

#5. Mystery is a birthright of theology and faith, but you often do find religious people grasping for answers that shut things down and narrow what is possible.

Krista Tippett

#6. The day hums sweetly when you have enough bees working for you.

Frank Herbert

#7. It was only then that he met Villefort's dull gaze, that look peculiar to men of the law who do not want anyone to read their thoughts, and so make their eyes into unpolished glass. The look reminded him that he was standing before Justice, a figure of grim aspect and manners.

Alexandre Dumas