We Owe Quotes
229 quotes by 185 authors
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Respect is what we owe; love, what we give.
— Philip James Bailey
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Nature makes only dumb animals. We owe the fools to society.
— Honore de Balzac
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We owe a lot to Thomas Edison - if it wasn't for him, we'd be watching television by candlelight.
— Milton Berle
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Look folks, we know who built this country and we know who is going to rebuild it. It's you. Instead of vilifying you, we should…
— Joe Biden
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It is very easy to overestimate the importance of our own achievements in comparison with what we owe others.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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America's fighting men and women sacrifice much to ensure that our great nation stays free. We owe a debt of gratitude to the soldiers that…
— Allen Boyd
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All of us have to recognize that we owe our children more than we have been giving them.
— Hillary Clinton
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We owe something to extravagance, for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand.
— Lady Randolph Churchill
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Our country is not the only thing to which we owe our allegiance. It is also owed to justice and to humanity.
— James Bryce
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Love denied blights the soul we owe to God.
— William Shakespeare
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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
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We owe this freedom of choice and action to those men and women in uniform who have served this nation and its interests in time…
— Ronald Reagan
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It is to them [fossils] alone that we owe the commencement of even a Theory of the Earth ... By them we are enabled to…
— Georges Cuvier
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We owe our lives to the sun... How is it, then, that we feel no gratitude?
— Lewis Thomas
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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
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Nothing is a courtesy unless it be meant us, and that friendly and lovingly. We owe no thanks to rivers that they carry our boats,…
— Ben Jonson
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Some foreign investors accuse us of being unfair to shareholders by using our resources for community development. Yes, this is money that could have made…
— Ratan Tata
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Pain and sorrow and misery have a right to our assistance: compassion puts us in mind of the debt, and that we owe it to…
— Joseph Butler
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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…
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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We owe gratitude to France, justice to England, good will to all, and subservience to none ... it was by the sober sense of our…
— Thomas Jefferson
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