Top 100 We Owe Quotes
#1. We owe a lot to the Indians, who taught us how to count, without which no worthwhile scientific discovery could have been made.
Albert Einstein
#2. Since the last question, also the first one, the quesiton of death, offers us the interesting alternatives of disintegrating ourselves by our own wills in proof of our "freedom," or the acknowledging that we owe a human life to this waking spell of existence, regardless of the void.
Saul Bellow
#3. We owe God a "double debt" incurred by our passive receipt of Adam's debt but also by our active disobedience. The extent of our depravity is such that we also owe a "daring debt" because we challenge not only God's Law but His very grace as we blame Him that He has not done enough.
Foppe Vander Zwaag
#4. What we owe men is some freedom from their part in a murderous game in which they kick each other to death with one foot, bracing themselves on our various comfortable places with the other.
Grace Paley
#5. The children of God should not have any other country here below but the universe itself, with the totality of all the reasoning creatures it ever has contained, contains, or ever will contain. That is the native city to which we owe our love.
Simone Weil
#6. Today, as we look back on the history of our nation and take note of how far we have come as a people, we are reminded that we owe a great debt to those who fought valiantly for the freedoms that we easily take for granted.
Sam Brownback
#7. Mankind is not a tribe of animals to which we owe compassion. Mankind is a club to which we owe our subscription.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
#8. At present, the novels which we owe to English ladies form no small part of the literary glory of our country. No class of works is more honorably distinguished for fine observation, by grace, by delicate wit, by pure moral feeling.
Thomas B. Macaulay
#9. I want people to be inspired! To remember how hard-fought the battle for the vote was, the debt we owe to women who paved the way for this more egalitarian society we live in, how critical it is to use our vote and to be counted.
Sarah Gavron
#10. The debt of gratitude we owe our mother and father goes forward, not backward. What we owe our parents is the bill presented to us by our children.
Nancy Friday
#11. We owe Christ to the world
to the least person and to the greatest person, to the richest person and to the poorest person, to the best person and to the worst person. We are in debt to the nations.
David Platt
#12. We owe it to our children to be better stewards of the environment. The alternative? - a world without whales. It's too terrible to imagine.
Pierce Brosnan
#13. What would it mean to do enough, I wondered, as I had wondered before about that obligation to others that sometimes seems so clear and sometimes disappears altogether, so that now we owe nothing, anything we give is too much, and now our debt is beyond all counting.
Garth Greenwell
#14. There is a mighty gulf between those who love and those who do not love God To the one class we owe civility, courtesy, kindness, even tenderness. It is only those who love the Lord who should find in our hearts a home.
Frederick William Robertson
#15. We owe at least this much to future generations, from whom we have borrowed a fragile planet called Earth.
Maurice Strong
#16. Through devotion, your family cares become more peaceful, mutual love between husband and wife becomes more sincere, the service we owe to the prince more faithful, and our work, no matter what it is, becomes more pleasant and agreeable.
Saint Francis De Sales
#17. What we are in ourselves, and what we owe to others makes us a complete whole.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
#18. We owe much to the fruitful meditation of our sages, but a sane view of life is, after all, elaborated mainly in the kitchen.
Joseph Conrad
#19. We owe our World War II veterans - and all our veterans - a debt we can never fully repay.
Doc Hastings
#20. Cheerfulness is a debt we owe to society, in the paying of which we receive a generous discount. We can not open our hearts to give out cheer without more cheer rushing in to take its place.
Alice Hegan Rice
#21. What can prevent the coming of totalitarian socialism is only a thorough change in ideologies. What we need is an open positive endorsement of that system to which we owe all the wealth that distinguished our age from the conditions of ages gone by.
Ludwig Von Mises
#22. The decision we must make now is whether we will give our allegiance to outmoded and unjust customs or to the ethical demands of the universe. As Christians we owe our allegiance to God and His will, rather than to man and his folkways
Martin Luther King Jr.
#23. Anything we destroy in ourselves we destroy in others. Our falls lower others and throw them down; we owe it to our fellows to keep upright, in order that they too may keep their feet.
George Sand
#24. Safety and security don't just happen, they are the result of collective consensus and public investment. We owe our children, the most vulnerable citizens in our society, a life free of violence and fear.
Nelson Mandela
#25. How much we owe to good teachers, good education, and good advice!
Robert Mundell
#26. Our life of poverty is as necessary as the work itself. Only in heaven will we see how much we owe to the poor for helping us to love God better because of them.
Mother Teresa
#27. Human curiosity. Such a very interesting thing. Think of what we owe to it throughout history. It is said to be usually associated with the cat. Curiosity killed the cat. But I should say really that the Greeks were the inventors of curiosity.
Agatha Christie
#28. As in all sweetest music, a tinge of sadness was in every note. Nor do we know how much of the pleasures even of life we owe to the intermingled sorrows. Joy cannot unfold the deepest truths, although deepest truth must be deepest joy.
George MacDonald
#29. We owe it to the flood victims of New Orleans to give them truthful answers as to why this event took place and to assure our citizens that tragedies like this will never happen again.
Charles B. Rangel
#30. How Much Do We Owe People We Love?
Ann Packer
#31. We owe a lot to Thomas Edison-if it wasn't for him, we'd be watching television by candlelight.
Milton Berle
#32. I had a lot of hatred, but I realized that kind of hate didn't do much. I had to start fueling myself with pride. We owe the ancestors that. So many of the souls who died in bondage just want us to recognize their struggle.
Marilyn Nelson
#33. Nature has made us a present of a broad capacity for entertaining ourselves apart, and often calls us to do so, to teach us that we owe ourselves in part to society, but in the best part to ourselves.
Michel De Montaigne
#34. We owe it to ourselves and to the next generation to conserve the environment so that we can bequeath our children a sustainable world that benefits all.
Wangari Maathai
#35. What on earth is his hold over you? Did he threaten you? Beat you up? You know, I could help if he injured you - "
"Dearie, we owe 'im our lives." I gaped at them, certain I was mishearing. Perhaps they owed him their wives? Knives?
Tarun Shanker
#36. If we meet someone who owes us a debt of gratitude, we remember the fact at once. How often we can meet someone to whom we owe a debt of gratitude without thinking about it at all!
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#37. Nature makes only dumb animals. We owe the fools to society.
Honore De Balzac
#38. The world does not owe us a living, we owe the world a living, our own.
Forrest Church
#39. Among the many acts of gratitude we owe to God, it may be accounted one to study and contemplate the perfections and beauties of His work of creation. Every new discovery must necessarily raise in us a fresh sense of the greatness, wisdom, and power of God.
Jonathan Edwards
#40. It is a special part of the divine worship that we owe to God, to be content in a Christian way, as has been shown to you.
Jeremiah Burroughs
#41. Children themselves know they are being cheated. Ultimately we owe it to our children. They are in school for 190 days a year. Every moment they spend learning is precious. If a year goes by and they are not being stretched and excited, that blights their life.
Michael Gove
#42. We who have been true readers all our life fully realize the enormous of our being which we owe to authors.
C.S. Lewis
#43. I want to live our own lives, make our own decision and not live in the shadow of a former life"...... We owe ourself that much.
Danielle Fuller
#44. They have said that we owe allegiance to Safety, that he is our Red Cross who will provide us with ointment and bandages for our wounds and remove the foreign ideas the glass beads of fantasy the bent hairpins of unreason embedded in our minds.
Janet Frame
#45. The one duty we owe to history is to rewrite it.
Oscar Wilde
#46. We can recognize and give credit where credit is due, to the debt of taste we owe Europe, but we have taste, too.
Billy Baldwin
#47. The world owes us nothing; we owe each other the world.
Ani DiFranco
#48. Our stewardship of the Earth is brief. We owe it to those who follow to keep that in perspective, to be responsible passengers along the way.
George H. W. Bush
#49. To forgive freely, is what we owe to our enemy; to forget not, is what we owe to ourselves.
Amelia Barr
#50. We owe it to each other - and to our children and grandchildren - to leave our planet in a better state than when we found it.
Christopher Dodd
#51. The greatest benefit we owe to the artist, whether painter, poet, or novelist, is the extension of our sympathies ... Art is the nearest thing to life; it is a mode of amplifying experience and extending our contact with our fellow-men beyond the bounds of our personal lot.
George Eliot
#52. True gentleness is founded on a sense of what we owe to him who made us and to the common nature which we all share. It arises from reflection on our own failings and wants, and from just views of the condition and duty of man. It is native feeling heightened and improved by principle.
Hugh Blair
#53. What we owe future generations is the subject of growing debate by economists, philosophers, ethicists, public policymakers, and academics of all stripes. But for me as a mother, the moral implications are very clear. We owe them clean air and fresh water, a healthy planet and a secure future.
Leonor Varela
#54. If anthropological data suggests something short of the ideal, that is not because nothing is universal, but because two universals are in conflict: universal moral knowledge and universal desire to evade it. The first one we owe to our creation. The second we owe to our fall.
J. Budziszewski
#55. In a word, we owe obedience to the bishops in all things pertaining to our work in the missions, with ordinands, etc., but the spiritual and internal direction belongs to the Superior General.
Vincent De Paul
#56. Where ever the Mavericks are today, we owe it to Michael Finley. He was the one guy who stayed when we were a terrible team. He stayed and fought the fight.
Don Nelson
#57. As long as we draw breath, we owe it to the ones we loved and lost to live out our lives without wasting them on regrets.
Sharon Sala
#58. Questioning the ostensibly unquestionable premises of our way of life is arguably the most urgent of services we owe our fellow humans and ourselves.
Zygmunt Bauman
#59. They are coming and they will speak to us all. Their message will terrify us to our core. Only then will we act! "We must move now to save ourselves and our dear planet. We owe it to those who placed life here. We were supposed to be stewards. Instead, we have been rapists of mother earth.
B.C. Chase
#60. It's great that people are basically spending their two weeks of vacation to come out and be with us in some weird part of the world. And I think we owe it to them to take 'em to some cool places.
Jeff Ament
#61. In days when the public safety is imminently threatened, and the fate of a nation may hang upon a single act, we owe frank speech, above all other men, to him who is highest in authority. I shall speak to you as man to man.
Robert Dale Owen
#62. Parenting is the greatest pay it forward system on earth. We don't owe our parents anything. We owe our children everything. The same was true for our parents. The same will be true for our children.
Dan Pearce
#63. Whoever has lived long enough to find out what life is, knows how deep a debt of gratitude we owe to Adam, the first great benefactor of our race. He brought death into the world.
Mark Twain
#64. From the Left comes the proposition that, given the slow economy, we should defer attending to the problem of mounting obligations - and the truly delusional idea that growing federal debt doesn't matter because we owe most of it to ourselves.
Steven Rattner
#65. We are all cripples, Keller thinks, limping together through this crippled world. It's what we owe to each other.
Don Winslow
#66. There is reverence that we owe to everything in human shape.
William Godwin
#67. It is human nature to be shortsighted and to lose momentum to make changes once the story is out of the headlines and there aren't financial incentives or political rewards. We owe to ourselves to learn from the past so we can try to do better.
Sheri Fink
#68. We owe to memory not only the increase of our knowledge, and our progress in rational inquiries, but many other intellectual pleasures
Samuel Johnson
#69. After the love which we owe Jesus Christ, we must give the chief place in our heart to the love of His Mother Mary.
Alphonsus Liguori
#70. When we realize how great a debt we owe to God, we become willing servants, eager to be poured out for God and His Kingdom.
J.D. Greear
#71. often enough, we owe our good fortune to someone else's loss.
Deb Caletti
#72. The key to all sciences is unquestionably the question mark. To the word How? we owe most of our greatest discoveries. Wisdom in life may perhaps consist in asking ourselves on all occasions: Why?
Honore De Balzac
#73. It is something to remember, if we feel distant from humans," Catarina said. "We owe a great deal to human love. We live forever by the grace of human love, which rocked strange children in their cradles and did not despair and did not turn away. I know which side of my heritage my soul comes from.
Cassandra Clare
#74. We owe every student in every neighborhood in New Jersey an equal opportunity to succeed. We know that more money, alone, is not the answer. We need to redefine success, and how we pursue that success, by the outcomes obtained by students.
Thomas Kean Jr.
#75. Richard Nixon was a very intelligent and able man. And he had the right ideas. But he did not have the adherence to principles that [Ronald] Reagan had. He did some very good things. We owe to Richard Nixon the volunteer army - he got rid of the draft. And that was a major increase in freedom.
Milton Friedman
#76. We owe it to our children to give them a dignified and hopeful future.
Giorgio Napolitano
#77. What a blessing this smoking is! Perhaps the greatest that we owe to the discovery of America.
Arthur Helps
#78. By my troth, I care not; a man can die but once; we owe God a death and let it go which way it will he that dies this year is quit for the next
William Shakespeare
#79. Their story, yours, mine - it's what we all carry with us on this trip we take, and we owe it to each other to respect our stories and learn from them.
William Carlos Williams
#80. The only good thing that we owe to Plato and Aristotle is that they brought forward many arguments which we can use against the heretics. Yet they and other philosophers are now in hell.
Girolamo Savonarola
#81. We owe the government taxes. We owe our creditors interest. What do these powers owe us?
Anna Deavere Smith
#82. We cannot tire or give up. We owe it to the present and future generations of all species to rise up and walk!
Wangari Maathai
#83. When we talk about the minimum wage, we have to ask ourselves what it is that we owe both our workers and employers. I think clearly we owe them fairness.
Dalton McGuinty
#86. Regarding factory-farmed animals We owe them a merciful death, and we owe them a merciful life. And when human beings cannot do something humanely, without degrading both the creatures and ourselves, then we should not do it at all.
Matthew Scully
#87. All of us have to recognize that we owe our children more than we have been giving them.
Hillary Clinton
#88. The men and women on the front lines of the war on terror continue to risk their lives to save ours - and for that we owe them a debt that we can never truly repay. Thanks to their efforts we have made tremendous progress. Yet, the job is not done.
Doc Hastings
#89. Whatever, in fact, is modern in our life we owe to the Greeks. Whatever is an anachronism is due to mediaevalism.
Oscar Wilde
#90. We owe it to the fans to do a tour around the world.
Steven Adler
#91. While we can never truly repay the debt we owe our heroes, the least we should do for our brave veterans is to ensure that the government takes a proactive approach to delivering the services and benefits they have earned, so they can access the care they need and so richly deserve.
Kirsten Gillibrand
#92. We owe to our Mother-Country the Duty of Subjects but will not pay her the Submission of Slaves.
George Mason
#93. It is unacceptable that disabled veterans in Illinois rank at the bottom of the list when it comes to disability pay. We owe our disabled veterans more than speeches, parades and monuments.
Dick Durbin
#94. We owe America something because they turned us into a touring band. But at least we feel confident about appearing in Britain again now. Hyde park was the first time over here for ages.
Steve Marriott
#95. Will tell you, for I am not sure if you properly understand as yet how much we owe to the Lord for bringing us to a place where we are so free from business matters, occasions of sin and the society of worldly people.
Teresa Of Avila
#96. We owe to every businessperson and worker in America the best environment in the world to create a job. We owe that to American businesses. Thirty-five percent corporate tax rate is the second highest in the world. We need to lower it so they don't leave. The goal is to help the middle class.
Lindsey Graham
#98. The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable.
Carl Jung
#99. The more debt we owe, the wealthier we are.
Pete Stark
#100. While we can't begin to repay the debt we owe our veterans for their brave service, we can certainly take steps to ease the physical, psychological and financial hardships they may be experiencing.
Kirsten Gillibrand
