Top 393 Owe Quotes

In our sport you’re very lucky to find a horse of a lifetime and I found mine relatively early. He’s done everything for me and I owe him the world.
Zara Phillips
I owe it all to Jesus.
Aaron Neville
We owe it to the audience to put more characters onscreen that reflect them and that speak to issues of race and gender as well as to a character’s sexual preference.
Nina Jacobson
I owe all the name and fame I have earned to regional cinema.
Tamannaah
We owe our children an environment in which they can flourish, and where law enforcement, the justice system, and society as offers them a fresh start, not a jail cell.
Kerry Kennedy
I want to say sorry for abusing my position as an ‘X Factor’ winner because I owe everything to this thing.
James Arthur
I told my mom I would graduate. I owe that much to her and myself.
Carmelo Anthony
Without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of the imagination is incalculable.
Carl Jung
I owe everything to Punjabi cinema.
Diljit Dosanjh
I owe everything I have to them when I’m out there on the mound. But I owe the fans nothing and they owe me nothing when I am not pitching.
Christy Mathewson
I owe my life to my father. I remember that my first Christmas present was a ball. In the district where we lived, there weren’t many kids who had one.
Sergio Aguero
It’s time to get past our racial differences. We owe it to our children to help them keep their clean start.
Ruby Bridges
Every interview I do, it’s basically ‘how did he do it,’ and I owe it all to my representation, and my manager is basically like my mother, she’s so picky.
Jamie Bell
The highlight of my career was being at the inaugural gala of Ronald Reagan, and I owe that to Mr. Sinatra.
Don Rickles
Executives owe it to the organization and to their fellow workers not to tolerate nonperforming individuals in important jobs.
Peter Drucker
ESG investing often marches under the same banner as ‘stakeholder capitalism,’ which maintains that corporations owe obligations to a range of constituencies, not only their shareholders.
Eugene Scalia
Crumb was such an influence on me. He’s such a visionary, such a great artist, that he so shaped my artistic sensibilities on a certain level that I do owe everything to him. The way I see the world is largely changed by him.
Terry Zwigoff
I feel like I owe something to America, as it is where I found success.
Nobu Matsuhisa
Role-playing games have been a huge part of my life and a huge part of my training as a performer – learning social skills, meeting friends, and being a generally competent person – so I owe a lot to role-playing games.
Matthew Mercer
I feel that I was chosen to do it. It’s taken me all over the world and given me opportunities to take care of my family and give me experiences that I would not have had. I think about those things and what I owe to the game.
Chris Bosh
When you’re free of editorial control, you owe it to yourself to obtain feedback from friends and readers. Some take those criticisms to heart and incorporate it into their work, and some ignore them.
Scott McCloud
I owe so much to Shakespeare. Nothing is more humbling and more exhilarating than taking ahold of those sacred words and riding them like a wave.
Carrie Preston
I played Little League for one year. That was it. Then my mother realized I liked books and threatened my father. I owe her forever for that.
Brad Meltzer
Everything I am I owe to Sterling Sharpe. He made me a better football player, a better father, and a better man. He was, and always will be, my hero.
Shannon Sharpe
I owe it to my fans to be who I am. There’s nothing fake about me.
Angie Stone
Any reduction in the corporate tax rate must also come with closing loopholes that have allowed the largest businesses in our country to pay less than they owe.
Seth Moulton
Quite simply, I owe everything to Jean-Luc. He taught me everything I know about films, about books, about art, about life.
Anna Karina
A movie is not a book. If the source material is a book

A movie is not a book. If the source material is a book, you cannot be too respectful of the book. All you owe to the book is the spirit.
Graham Greene
I, of course, owe everything to my mother, because my father died when I was only nine days of age; and the marvelous teachings, the faith, the integrity of my mother have been an inspiration to me.
Heber J. Grant
I’m a lot more self-confident than I used to be. To some extent I owe that to my children and my husband.
Claudia Schiffer
Growing up, books were my lifeline, and I owe a debt to those writers that can never be repaid. They saved my sanity and gave me a world I could escape to. If I can pay that forward to another person, that’s all I ask.
Sherrilyn Kenyon
The only thing that I demand of the audience is that they listen to what I’m saying. Other than that, they owe me nothing. They don’t owe me a thing.
Jeff Garlin
My family is involved and my wife Brenda is a great, great writer. She helps me with the writing of everything and also sings with me. I owe a lot to Brenda.
Rick Derringer
Alf Wight was remarkable, and I keep in touch regularly with his children Rosie and Jim, I love them dearly and I owe them.
Christopher Timothy
Above all, we owe it to the children of the world to stop the conflicts and to create new horizons for them.
F. W. de Klerk
There are phrases that are totally cliche that we, as songwriters, owe it to ourselves to not use again.
Brad Paisley
I owe my start in professional wrestling to the red-headed kid from ‘The Partridge Family.’ I was discovered by Hulk Hogan, Jimmy Hart, and Ric Flair in Chicago when I was introduced to those three gentlemen by Danny Bonaduce.
Big Show
We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity – romantic love and gunpowder.
Andre Maurois
How much we owe to good teachers, good education, and good advice!
Robert Mundell
I have never let down Italy, and I never will. I love my country, and I owe a lot to my country, and in that sense, whatever I can and will be able to do for my country, I will do.
Lapo Elkann
The world’s music is at our fingertips, so if we like music, we kind of owe it to ourselves to check in with all of that.
Chris Thile
I owe so much to my parents, to my family.
Eddy Alvarez
My mother was being hounded by a debt collector over a debt that she didn’t owe, and she eventually just paid it because she wanted the calls to stop. I was very surprised. It sounded so strange. I started poking around on the Internet and found this was extremely common.
Jake Halpern
I think I owe thanks to the people who have listened to me over the years, who tuned in on the radio. They have given me a warmth and loyalty that I’ve never been able to repay. The way they have reached out to me has certainly been the highlight of my life.
Ernie Harwell
We owe it to all our veterans to make sure they have a chance to achieve the American Dream, just like the rest of us.
Tammy Duckworth
I grew up in a family of strong women and I owe any capacity I have to understand women to my mother and big sister. They taught me to respect women in a way where I’ve always felt a strong emotional connection to women, which has also helped me in the way I approach my work as an actor.
Ryan Gosling
Firefighters are essential to the safety and security of our local communities. We owe it to these men and women to provide them with better training and equipment so they can do their jobs more effectively and safely.
Carl Levin
When it comes down to it, I believe that, having made the decision to bring children into the world, I owe it to them to be as present as I can in their daily lives and to try my best to stay alive until they’ve made it through to adulthood.
Deborah Copaken Kogan
I’m no longer going to play thugs or debauched cops that I can’t possibly make complex characters. I’m bigger than that. I owe too much to too many good people at the Goodman, Arena and Playwrights Horizons.
Isaiah Washington
I wanted to avoid all that literary stuff. I didn’t want the self pity of ‘The Portrait,’ all the moaning and the whingeing. I’m not knocking Joyce: we all owe him a debt. He’s the one who made so much possible.
Frank McCourt
There are many people who believe in me and have backed me. I owe it to them – and not just to myself – to succeed when I step onto the field.
Ravichandran Ashwin
When you first make money, you’re just excited that you have it and just buy things on a whim. You don’t really think about the implications that taxes have, because when you owe money, all of a sudden all of the money in your account – it’s gone!
Eric Nam
The little I know I owe to my ignorance.
Sacha Guitry
Making improvements to our background check system and cracking down on illegal gun trafficking are common-sense ways to prevent violence without punishing law abiding gun owners. We owe it to the American people to take real action to reduce gun violence in our communities.
Martin Heinrich
I can’t separate the fight with terrorism and the fight against global warming. These are two big global challenges we have to face up to because we have to leave our children more than a world free of terror; we also owe them a planet protected from catastrophes.
Francois Hollande
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
To be very honest, I owe it all to TV, it has made me what I am today. I’ve learnt the craft from it.
Gautam Rode
This country, the people of our country, owe our military so much. These are the people that go out there and literally risk their lives to protect our freedom.
Michael Kelly
I have always been interested in how strange it is, whe

I have always been interested in how strange it is, when you date someone and break up, and then you both move on and continue your lives. What do you owe them, if anything, for that time intimate time spent together? What does that time mean, if anything?
Liz Tuccillo
The staff members of all banks have worked very hard, and we all owe them our gratitude.
Urjit Patel
I can’t wake up every day and not thank Sundance. They’re a great beacon of light for any independent film. Just to have a film that you made shown on a screen for an audience in a theater is beyond me, so I owe them everything in the world.
Sam Levinson