Quotes about Borrowed

Ian Mcewan

He saw that no one owned anything really. It's all rented, or borrowed. Our possessions will outlast us, we'll desert them in the end.

Empedocles

A borrowed light, circular in form, it revolves about the earth, as if following the track of a chariot.

Greece claims him as well since the Greek culture was dominant throughout the Mediterranean at the time. While he was wrong about light being able to completely circle the earth, note that his view of the Earth is spherical. Most thinkers had rejected the flat earth even 400 years before Christ. It was the Church that solidified the flat earth concept.

Ian Mcewan

No one knows anything, really. It's all rented, or borrowed.

Sonny Bono

Don't cling to fame. You're just borrowing it. It's like money. You're going to die, and somebody else is going to get it.

Liev Schreiber

I think that everything I've ever done at some point is part of someone else's legacy.

Benjamin Franklin

He that displays too often his wife and his wallet is in danger of having both of them borrowed.

Steven Soderbergh

In the land of ideas, you are always renting.

Samuel Rutherford

Let your children be as so many flowers, borrowed from God. If the flowers die or wither, thank God for a summer loan of them.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Is all literature eavesdropping, and all art Chinese imitation? our life a custom, and our body borrowed, like a beggar’s dinner, from a hundred charities?

Engelbert Humperdinck

Elvis stole his sideburns from me.

Borrowed Quotes