I am an African. I owe my being to the hills and the valleys, the mountains and the glades, the rivers, the deserts, the trees, the flowers, the seas and the ever-changing seasons that define the face of our native land.
— Thabo Mbeki
Beautiful Owed quotations
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 up the whole sky.
Owe nothing to anyone, except to love one another.
The arts are essential to any complete national life.
The State owes it to itself to sustain and encourage them. [...] Ill fares the race which fails to salute the arts with the reverence and delight which are their due.
Worrying is like paying a debt you don't owe.
I learned from a very young age that no one owes you anything and nobody's gonna give you a damn thing. But you can have anything you want, if you work hard enough for it.
I've discovered most Christians don't know what to do with difficult situations because they have bought into the lie that God owes us (for our good behaviour). The reality of life is that if you live long enough you are going to bleed, cry and hurt. AND God is still God IN that.
I will place no value on anything I have or may possess, except in relation to the kingdom of Christ. If anything will advance the interests of that kingdom, it shall be given away or kept only in reference to whether giving or keeping will most promote the glory1 of him to whom I owe all my hopes in time and eternity.
Roughly 7 to 8 percent of men in Germany are homosexual.
If that is how things remain, our nation will fall to pieces because of that plague. Those who practice homosexuality deprive Germany of the children they owe her.
Integrity is the value we set on ourselves.
It is a fulfillment of the duty we owe ourselves. An honorable man or woman will personally commit to live up to certain self-imposed expectations. They need no outside check or control. They are honorable in their inner core.
Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.
Either human intelligence ultimately owes its origin to mindless matter;
or there is a Creator. It is strange that some people claim that it is their intelligence that leads them to prefer the first to the second.
Yes, I am my brother's keeper. I am under a moral obligation to him that is inspired, not by any maudlin sentimentality but by the higher duty I owe myself. What would you think me if I were capable of seating myself at a table and gorging myself with food and saw about me the children of my fellow beings starving to death?
He is rich who owes nothing.
We must become bigger than we have been: more courageous, greater in spirit, larger in outlook. We must become members of a new race, overcoming petty prejudice, owing our ultimate allegiance not to nations but to our fellow men within the human community.
Each and every one of us is born with a clean heart.
Our babies know nothing about hate or racism. But soon they begin to learn – and only from us. We keep racism alive. We pass it on to our children. We owe it to our children to help them keep their clean start.
People talk of the sacrifice I have made in spending so much of my life in Africa. Can that be called a sacrifice which is simply paid back as a small part of a great debt owing to our God, which we can never repay? All these are nothing when compared with the glory which shall be revealed in and for us. I never made a sacrifice.
If there is any responsibility in the cycle of life it must be that one generation owes to the next that strength by which it can come to face ultimate concerns in its own way.
I'd like to know why well-educated idiots keep apologizing for lazy and complaining people who think the world owes them a living.
I owe everything I am and everything I will ever be to books.
All that you are, all that I owe to you, justifies my love.
I think what we owe each other is a celebration of life and to replace fear and hopelessness with fearlessness and joy.
Everything you see I owe to spaghetti.
We cannot tire or give up. We owe it to the present and future generations of all species to rise up and walk!
I live by the mercy of Jesus, to whom I owe everything and from whom I expect everything.
All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.
He who jumps into the void owes no explanation to those who stand and watch.
Civilization owes to the Islamic world some of its most important tools and achievements...the Muslim genius has added much to the culture of all peoples.
Humanity owes the child the best it has to give.
He is your friend, your partner, your defender, your dog.
You are his life, his love, his leader. He will be yours, faithful and true, to the last beat of his heart. You owe it to him to be worthy of such devotion. Our dogs will love and admire the meanest of us, and feed our colossal vanity with their uncritical homage.
We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity - romantic love and gunpowder.
Life does not owe you anything, because life has already given you everything.
You don’t owe prettiness to anyone.
Not to your boyfriend/spouse/partner, not to your co-workers, especially not to random men on the street. You don’t owe it to your mother, you don’t owe it to your children, you don’t owe it to civilization in general. Prettiness is not a rent you pay for occupying a space marked ‘female’.
I think using animals for food is an ethical thing to do, but we've got to do it right. We've got to give those animals a decent life, and we've got to give them a painless death. We owe the animal respect.
My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother.