Mine Quotes - page 7

Mylife might be little and boring, but at least it's mine - not some assembly-line, secondhand, hand-me-down life. (Chuck Palahniuk)
All those writers who write about their own childhood! Gentle God, if I wrote about mine you wouldn't sit in the same room with me. View quote
Dorothy Parker
Truth sits upon the lips of dying men, And falsehood, while I lived, was far from mine. View quote
Matthew Arnold
It took the whole of Creation To produce my foot, my each feather: Now I hold Creation in my foot. Or fly up, and revolve it all slowly – I kill where I please because it is all mine. There is no sophistry in my body: My manners are tearing off heads – The allotment of death. View quote
Ted Hughes
What sought they thus afar? Bright jewels of the mine, The wealth of seas, the spoils of war? They sought a faith's pure shrine. View quote
Felicia Hemans
Somebody," said Jacques, "your father or mine, should have told us that not many people have ever died of love. But multitudes have perished, and are perishing every hour - and in the oddest places! - for the lack of it. View quote
James Baldwin
We relinquished our freedom that day, and we were more than happy to see it go. From that moment on we lived in true freedom, the freedom to point to someone else and say "They told me to do it! It's their fault, not mine.” The freedom, God help us, to say "I was only following orders.”. View quote
Max Brooks
The color of the prisoner's skin, and the form of his features, are not impressed upon the spiritual immortal mind which works beneath. In spite of human pride, he is still your brother, and mine, in form and color accepted and approved by his Father, and yours, and mine, and bears equally with us the proudest inheritance of our race - the image of our Maker. Hold him then to be a Man. View quote
William H. Seward
On October 19, 2009, my sixteenth birthday, Wild Eyes officially became mine! Now it was really happening. View quote
Abby Sunderland
In my mind I'm goin' to Carolina. Can't you see the sunshine? Can't you just feel the moonshine? Ain't it just like a friend of mine To hit me from behind? Yes, I'm goin' to Carolina in my mind. View quote
James Taylor
Every writer has an ideal reader, I thought, and it was just my good luck that mine wanted to sleep with me. (Michael Chabon)
Now as the Paradisiacal pleasures of the Mahometans consist in playing upon the flute and lying with Houris, be mine to read eternal new romances of Marivaux and Crebillon. View quote
Thomas Gray
T is Providence alone secures In every change both mine and yours. View quote
William Cowper
I had a buddy of mine call up the other day, all upset 'cause he slept with his third cousin. And I'm like, "Man, if it upsets you that much, quit countin' them!" View quote
Larry the Cable Guy
We're all given some sort of skill in life. Mine just happens to be beating up on people. View quote
Sugar Ray Leonard
I hope the dogs don't bark tonight. I always think it's mine. View quote
Albert Camus
I was assailed by memories of a life that wasn't mine anymore, but one in which I'd found the simplest and most lasting joys. View quote
Albert Camus
I have eaten your bread and salt. I have drunk your water and wine. The deaths ye died I have watched beside And the lives ye led were mine. View quote
Rudyard Kipling
You must take it; I cannot live with anything in my possession that is not mine. View quote
Ulysses S. Grant
I adore wearing gems, but not because they are mine. You can't possess radiance, you can only admire it. View quote
Elizabeth Taylor
Genius without education is like silver in the mine. (Benjamin Franklin)
Hope lies to mortals And most believe her, But man's deceiver Was never mine. View quote
A. E. Housman
I have fought my fight, I have lived my life, I have drunk my share of wine; From Trier to Köln there was never a knight Had a merrier life than mine. View quote
Charles Kingsley
Things are going to go wrong, and I think we are false to life if we don't portray it. But there is also the hope that some lucky clown is going to come along and stumble into the gold mine. And I think you are also entitled to hold out that hope. View quote
James A. Michener
You expect me to account for opinions which you choose to call mine, but which I have never acknowledged. View quote
Jane Austen