On My Own Quotes

I don't really read children's books or deal with children's books, so I don't have any relationship with them other than my own.

All my life I believed I became an athlete through my own determination, but it's impossible to think that being descended from slaves hasn't left an imprint through the generations.

I have become my own father.

A notion for a story is for me a confluence of real events, historical perhaps, or from my own memory to create an exciting fusion.

I have a great family, good friends, a nice girlfriend, my own house. I have got everything how I want it to be.

I've always been fortunate in that I've been able to put myself in my own zone and relax. It comes naturally. I'm lucky to be that way

My own daughter is a big fan of the 'Twilight' stories, the books.

I've found in my own life, if you try to struggle against what the universe is telling you, you set yourself up for more of a battle.

I am sure as I grow older I will understand more about my own feelings and how to put them in a song.

Usually as an artist I would write relatively within my own playing boundaries.

My spirit life very much depends on my work. My work very much depends on my spirit life. And I pray every day, as part of my own ritual, to a god I believe in, not a god somebody else believes in.

For among other things he had been counseled to bring me to love knowledge and duty by my own choice, without forcing my will, and to educate my soul entirely through gentleness and freedom.

I set forth notions that are human and my own, simply as human notions considered in themselves, not as determined and decreed by heavenly ordinance.

And one might therefore say of me that in this book I have only made up a bunch of other people's flowers, and that of my own I have only provided the string that ties them together.

I have here only made a nosegay of culled flowers, and have brought nothing of my own but the thread that tied them together.

I give my opinion not as being good, but as being my own.

I have gathered a posy of other men’s flowers and only the thread that bonds them is my own.

Might I have had my own will, I would not have married Wisdom herself, if she would have had me.

I knew one hundred little things about Noah Shaw but when he kissed me I couldn't remember my own name.

I know what makes me happy. I pick the clothes that make me happy - sometimes people like them, sometimes they don't. I try to listen to my own internal guide.

I had always been kind of obsessed with making a home of my own and was always drawing rooms that I wanted to live in, down to pictures on the wall and the faces that would be in the photographs.

The down side these days is thinking that, “I can do this all on my own”. Yes, you can do this on your own but you’ll be a much happier human being if you do it with other human beings.

I never knew my father, and I'd hate to repeat that kind of cycle with my own children, because I'd also want to be there for them no matter what.

I think what I bring to the table overall is a sense of my own individuality, especially in the urban-male spectrum of what is here and now.

I wanted to make an unashamed pop record. I became obsessed with Disney soundtracks from the '50s, so I decided to make my own.

I'm not even a household name in my own household

The fact that I'd gone through my own transition as governor of Indiana and had been informed by that experience, I think was an asset.

If anxiety is the major force of our contemporary condition, a lot of poetry - including my own, mostly - sort of tries to escape that, fly off into magical thinking or bewilderment or whatever.

Every day, I wake up and I'm like, "Oh, I'm the star of my own show that has my name in it and I get to write it and hire actors that I've loved for such a long time!" It's amazing!

I know it was harder for me taking care of my dad during his cancer than it was going through my own. You feel more helpless as a caregiver.

I have a hard time really claiming my place as a songwriter or as doing anything of import really because I feel like I'm tooting my own horn in a way.

I have a very hard time with confrontation in my own life, and I end up being way too nice.

I try to consider people's perspectives and not just my own.

I am every age, up to my own.

My own father didn't talk a lot about feelings or emotions.

I don't use any fance quill pens or pads, because I can't read my own handwriting. I just use whatever computer is laying around, and start writing.

I type a 101 words a minute. But it's in my own language.

When it comes to the economy, my highest priority as President will be worrying about your job, not saving my own.

It's sometimes too easy to point fingers when circumstances dramatically go awry, but as an addict, I'm ultimately responsible for my own decisions, no matter how benign or tragic the consequences.

When I do have time to work on music, I'm kind of selfish, and would rather work on my own stuff than someone else's.

I am a great football player. I had my own club when I was 14 years old. Football is in my blood, and I have been a fan of Fulham for the last 30 years.

I was, in my own eyes, a veritable James Bond — only younger, darker, and possibly better paid.

I try to put my own history in my work.

Whenever there's a role that scares me, I get panicked and nervous. I know that greatness might come because I'm going to get out of my own element and comfort zone.

It's very difficult to look at it in a kind of a free manner, what reality is. That was my first struggle, to see it as it is, rather than tainted by my own previous thoughts.

I may be indigent in name, position, and in appearance, but in my own mind I am an unrivaled goddess -

I don't think I am a citizen of the world; I am very much a citizen of my own country. But my own country is closely related to other parts of the world and influenced by what happens there.

I wanted to travel with my dad to be close to him again. Having babies and raising my own family took so much of my time, I didn't have a chance to be with him very often.

There are too many people around keeping me grounded to go off the rails. I'm my own person.

I push my own limits every day, every moment - in the studio, on the stage and beyond so it's truly a genuine fit.