Top 393 Owe Quotes

Everything I have in this world, I owe to the sport of boxing, and I won’t ever forget that.

I’d give Him some room. I’d be like, ‘Thanks for keeping me around a little bit longer. I owe You a lot.’

I owe everything to my fans. They were the ones who cheered for me, and they were the ones who gave me the means to provide for my kids.

My son was killed in 2004. I am not paying my taxes for 2004. You killed my son, George Bush, and I don’t owe you a penny.

I enjoy the movies just as much as the next person, I owe my existence and privileged life to it. But I would rather pay for my ticket and watch it in a theater popcorn and cold drink in my hand than swim in the giant fishbowl that is the life of an actor.

Bose and Einstein had triggered low-temperature experiments that have led to the discovery of new matter. I owe my work and my Nobel to them.

I owe thanks to a thoughtful, sophisticated readership hungry for challenging subject matter, for honest portrayals of parenthood, and for fiction whose meaning is neither obvious nor morally pat.

I owe a lot to Chelsea.

My earliest recollections are of the teeming East Side where I was born. This Hester Street and its surrounding streets were the most densely populated of any city on Earth; and looking back at it, I realize what I owe to its unique and crowded humanity.

Anyone who ever gave me confidence, I owe them a lot.

The Cubs gave me a chance to play. They signed me as a free agent and brought me to the Major Leagues. The first day I walked into Wrigley Field was one of the best days of my life. And I owe them an awful lot.

I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.

Even after all this time, the sun never says to the earth, ‘You owe me.’ Look what happens with a love like that. It lights the whole sky.

I would say you have an ethical obligation to pay the taxes that you owe, but you don’t have an ethical obligation to pay taxes that you don’t owe. In fact, you should be seeking ways to legally minimise your taxes.

It was also Hegel who established the view that the different philosophic systems that we find in history are to be comprehended in terms of development and that they are generally one-sided because they owe their origins to a reaction against what has gone before.

I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress.

You grow up and recognise that in an educated, secular society, there’s no excuse for ignorance. You have to recognise in yourself, and challenge yourself, that if you see racism or homophobia or misogyny in a secular society, as a member of that society, you should challenge it. You owe it to the betterment of society.

There’s certain people that you owe it to, for the things they’ve done for you.

I know how hard it is to get a babysitter, get dressed and go out again after work. I’m like, right, I owe you lot a good show.

I’m very grateful to being dyslexic and I owe my career to being dyslexic.

I don’t have no story. Everybody wants this Hollywood story, but the world don’t owe you nothing, man. It’s what you owe the world.

We owe each other a debt and we owe each other an obligation, and because of these fundamental American imperatives, there are things that we own in common with each other, and that we are obliged to protect for our posterity. The water. The trees. The wild places in the land. We lose sight of these truths sometimes.

Modern medical advances have helped millions of people live longer, healthier lives. We owe these improvements to decades of investment in medical research.

We owe it to players, young and old, to train them thoroughly so that they can take full advantage of the insights that tech offers them. And what is true in sport also applies more widely to business.

I owe a large part of my success to Joe Brown, who helped me both as a player and a person.

Every penny we spend comes from the taxpayer. We thus owe it to the taxpayer to work as hard managing that money wisely as the taxpayer must do to earn it in the first place.

We owe something to extravagance, for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand.

We do not owe allegiance to any candidate because they share our party or our color, but because they share our principles and our conscience.

I’m so confusing to wrestling promoters, and I’m used to that, but because I stayed in ECW and learned how to express myself the way, ah, that I could connect with my fans, it made my strong Rob Van Dam character uncompromising… and I owe that to ECW.

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.

When I wrap my hands, I do it for my family. I owe my courage to them and also my success. That’s why I fight.

I owe undying gratitude to my patient parents.

I feel like I owe the Yankee fan base my A-game.

I think you owe it to your kids to teach them how to cook – you know, self-survival.

All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.

On landing at New York I caught the yellow fever. The kind man who commanded the ship that brought me from France took charge of me and placed me under the care of two Quaker ladies. To their skillful and untiring care I may safely say I owe my life.

And we owe science to the combined energies of individual men of genius, rather than to any tendency to progress inherent in civilization.

I can plod. I can persevere in any definite pursuit. To this I owe everything.

Everything I am I owe to my faith and secondly to parents who were old school.

We owe it to ourselves to keep healthy this marvelous world we’ve been given.

I owe my life to blood donors. I’m forever grateful to people who donate.

I feel like as a writer, I owe a huge debt of gratitude to ‘Game of Thrones’, because it really blew open the doors for fantasy on television.

When I wake up, I think, ‘What can I do to help others?’ I think we all owe the world something. That’s the way I am when I’m designing a product.

All Americans and freedom-loving people around the world owe President Reagan our deepest gratitude for his strong, principled leadership that ended the Cold War and brought freedom to millions of people.

I think now I’ve established myself as a director, but starting out, I’d be foolish to think that every opportunity that came after ‘The Wonder Years’ didn’t stem from ‘The Wonder Years.’ So I owe so much of everything for that show.

I owe my career in the South to Tamil films.

We need to win something for the fans because they have been patient and very understanding and we owe them.

I’m not a fan of people making up lies, and I do feel I owe it to people to know what the truth is.

It was at the graduate school at Columbia University that I first met Wesley C. Mitchell, with whom I was associated for many years at the National Bureau of Economic Research and to whom I owe a great intellectual debt.

People have lots of misconceptions about me. My mum, who is half French and half Spanish, gets outraged when I’m called quintessentially English. I owe my looks to my mum-which was 90 percent of getting my first job. And, some people would argue, 90 percent of my entire career.

I think I owe it to myself to put my best effort forward and prove how good I can be.

I found that when I did something for the sake of heaven, heaven happened. These things changed my life. I owe them to my encounter with Christianity.

I have the greatest respect for Aborigine people, to whom I owe everything. The time I spent with members of the Pijantjatjara and Pintupi tribes in Australia was a transformative experience for me and one that has deeply and indelibly informed my entire life and art.

With Twitter, you just want to make people laugh in their meeting; on stage, people have paid for their tickets with their hard-earned money, so I owe them the truth as I experience it.

Sometimes people will come up in the street and say: ‘My daughter loves you, will you sign an autograph for her?’ And some people send me stuff. I don’t mind it at all: as a sportswoman, you owe them because they support you.

Words contract a significance which clings to them long after the condition of things to which they owe it has passed away.

We kind of owe everything to ‘Byker Grove.’ It’s where we learnt to do what we do.

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.

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 ourselves as well as to the distressed.

So many people don’t have control over their destiny in a way that I do, don’t own their own businesses, don’t have their own clients. I owe it to them to speak freely.