Family Quote by Damian Green

The problem with property is that it takes so much of your time.

— Willem de Kooning

“The idea that property has overcome our personalities is the single reason we'll miss the best part of our lives. It's people, not possessions…

— Brian Krans

“Many people are obsessed with the idea that everything has to be perfect or immediately accessible, so it’s easy to fall in the trap…

— S.J. Scott

People who own property feel a sense of ownership in their future and their society. They study, save, work, strive and vote. And people…

— Henry Louis Gates

Some possessions are like old friends, and you never want to abandon an old friend.

— Nina Campbell

Our present stress on growth and productivity is, I believe, intimately related to the decline in rootedness. Faced with loneliness and vulnerability that come…

— Paul L Wachtel

People who never had enough thrift and forethought to buy and pay for property in the first place seldom have enough to keep property…

— Thomas Nixon Carver

A lot of people do get stuck on the idea that they can't pour energy into something unless they own it. Given the current…

— David Holmgren

People who have few possessions cling tightly to those they have. That is one of the facts that make life so discouraging.

— Sherwood Anderson

Persons who have been homeless carry within them a certain philosophy of life which makes them apprehensive about ownership.

— Jerzy Kosinski

To this day, at my relatively advanced age, I still don't have a place I can really call home. I've never bought property. I…

— Pico Iyer

How the sting of poverty, or small means, is gone when one keeps house for one's own comfort and not for the comfort of…

— Anonymous