Top 39 Mortgaged Quotes
#1. Look round, the wrecks of play behold; Estates dismember'd, mortgaged, sold! Their owners now to jails confin'd, Show equal poverty of mind.
John Gay
#2. Who do I belong to? How come I mortgaged my being till I don't belong to myself? How come I sold my blood? And who now owns my indecisions, my hands, my private pain, my pride?
Pablo Neruda
#3. Our Sheffield and London homes are worth well over a million but the bank owns most of them - we are mortgaged up to the gills.
Nick Clegg
#4. My dad did everything he could. It was a start-up, and the banks didn't want to lend him enough money, so he mortgaged our house.
Rob Portman
#5. You said five little words to someone
How can I help you?
and it was as if you'd mortgaged your soul out to them.
Kate Atkinson
#6. The days when I had that kind of spondulics at my beck and call are gone, gone, gone! Our house is mortgaged, twice over!
David Mitchell
#7. Though the fact that they have to be rebuilt And frequently mortgaged to the hilt Is inclined to take the gilt Off the gingerbread, And certainly damps the fun Of the eldest son.
Noel Coward
#8. Our company was mortgaged to the hilt, and that did restrain us, and it's why we had to take in partners.
Gina Rinehart
#9. A mortgaged home, an empty stomach and a ragged back know no party. We will live to write the epitaphs of the old parties: "Died of general debility, old age, and chronic falsehoods."
Mary Elizabeth Lease
#10. Pueblo investment properties, and he had mortgaged the ranch to raise added investment funds for still more business concerns. At the time, with the economy booming
Matt Braun
#11. If our salmon are not healthy, then our watersheds are not healthy-and if our watersheds our not healthy, then we have truly squandered our heritage and mortgaged our future.
John Kitzhaber
#12. The world is filled to suffocating. Man has placed his token on every stone. Every word, every image, is leased and mortgaged. We know that a picture is but a space in which a variety of images, none of them original, blend and clash.
Sherrie Levine
#13. We have mortgaged the planet and spent the cash on trifles.
Justin Cronin
#14. Youth! There is nothing like youth. The middle-aged are mortgaged to Life. The old are in Life's lumber-room. But youth is the Lord of Life. Youth has a kingdom waiting for it. Every one is born a king, and most people die in exile.
Oscar Wilde
#15. Obama won the presidency on the strength of his message and the skills of the messenger. Now the talk of hope and change feels out of tune when so many Americans are out of work, over-mortgaged, and worried that life will be even tougher for their children.
Ron Fournier
#16. Modern man drives a mortgaged car over a bond-financed highway on credit-card gas.
Earl Wilson
#17. Maybe what I admired most about John Steinbeck is that he never mortgaged his 45-acre heart for a suite in an ivory tower.
Tom Robbins
#18. Trust him to have his bitter politics
Against his unacquaintances the rich
Who sleep in houses of their own, though mortgaged.
Conservatives, they don't know what to save.
Robert Frost
#19. We are not free to use today, or to promise tomorrow, because we are already mortgaged to yesterday.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#20. There is, of course, a gold mine or a buried treasure on every mortgaged homestead. Whether the farmer ever digs for it or not, it is there, haunting his daydreams when the burden of debt is most unbearable.
Fawn M. Brodie
#21. So now I have confessed that he is thine, And I my self am mortgaged to thy will, My self I'll forfeit, so that other mine, Thou wilt restore to be my comfort still.
William Shakespeare
#22. I'm as prone to 'declinism' as the next over-mortgaged middle-aged guy.
David Ignatius
#23. It was very difficult.
We don't advertise this much, but those years that we went through were hell.
I don't want to overstate the situation, but everything was mortgaged to the hilt, cash was a real problem, and it did limit what we were able to do.
Gina Rinehart
#25. During our travels, the Indians entertained me well; and their affection for me was so great, that they utterly refused to leave me there with the others, although the Governor offered them one hundred pounds sterling for me, on purpose to give me a parole to go home.
Daniel Boone
#26. Many a prophecy, by the mere force of its being believed, is transmuted to fact.
Isaac Asimov
#27. have to talk to Mr West. I'm sure he'll be able to help you.' 'We'll do that, Mrs Clegg,' replied Fitzjohn. 'Now, I don't want to keep you too much longer but Mr Van Goren arrived at the Observatory last evening in a taxi so I take it he didn't
Jill Paterson
#29. US presidents can make all the commitments and declarations they want until they are blue in the face, in the Muslim world they will always be perceived as partisan.
Daniel Barenboim
#30. The critical question about regret is whether experience led to growth and new learning. Some people seem to keep on making the same mistakes, while others at least make new ones. Regret and remorse can be either paralyzing or inspiring. [p. 199]
Mary Catherine Bateson
#31. Yes, it was possible that the little world, on its voyage among all the stars, might become like that; a boat on which one could travel no longer, from which one could no longer look up and confront those bright rings of revolution.
Willa Cather
#32. I find it hard to say, because when I was there it seemed to be shut.
Clement Freud
#33. Never bet anything on men's stupidity and on women's virginity; the former believe they aren't, while the latter believe they might be.
M.F. Moonzajer
#34. What is school for? If you're not asking that, you're wasting time and money.
Seth Godin
#35. It was time to stand up for herself and move forward, not cower in submission as other people made bad decisions for her.
Angie Stanton
#36. Follow the path of your aroused thought, and you will soon meet this infernal inscription: There is nothing so beautiful as that which does not exist.
Paul Valery
#37. He might be quiet, but he had a strong, unshakeable presence about him.
Anonymous
#38. Think about it if you must, but remember: If something is worth pursuing, you shouldn't waste time. Situations change faster than you can split an orcish skull, and a moment's hesitation could cost you your chance.
Markus Heitz
#39. In those years,'80 was the, at the turn of '79/'80 you had the invasion of Afghanistan. It was the period in which the Americans attempt to liberate, to, to liberate the hostages in Iran and all these, all these things, the atmosphere was freezing - boycott of the Olympic Games and all that.
Helmut Schmidt
