Quotes about mine
A collection of quotes on the topic of mine, mining, likeness, doing.
Quotes about mine
Michael Jackson (1958–2009) American singer, songwriter and dancer
HIStory: Past, Present & Future, Book I (1995)
“He's more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.”
Emily Brontë book Wuthering Heights
Variant: Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same
Source: Wuthering Heights
“I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine.”
Jane Austen book Pride and Prejudice
Source: Pride and Prejudice
“The present is theirs; the future, for which I really worked, is mine.”
Nikola Tesla (1856–1943) Serbian American inventor
Galileo Galilei (1564–1642) Italian mathematician, physicist, philosopher and astronomer
Author, Third Day. Change of Position<!--p.153 [190]-->
Dialogues and Mathematical Demonstrations Concerning Two New Sciences (1638)
Context: It has been observed that missiles and projectiles describe a curved path of some sort; however no one has pointed out the fact that this path is a parabola. But this and other facts, not few in number or less worth knowing, I have succeeded in proving; and what I consider more important, there have been opened up to this vast and most excellent science, of which my work is merely the beginning, ways and means by which other minds more acute than mine will explore its remote corners.
Emily Brontë book Wuthering Heights
Source: Wuthering Heights
Context: I gave him my heart, and he took and pinched it to death; and flung it back to me. People feel with their hearts, Ellen, and since he has destroyed mine, I have not power to feel for him.
Nikola Tesla (1856–1943) Serbian American inventor
On patent controversies regarding the invention of Radio and other things, as quoted in "A Visit to Nikola Tesla" by Dragislav L. Petković in Politika (April 1927); as quoted in Tesla, Master of Lightning (1999) by Margaret Cheney, Robert Uth, and Jim Glenn, p. 73 ISBN 0760710058 </small> ; also in Tesla: Man Out of Time (2001) by Margaret Cheney, p. 230 <small> ISBN 0743215362
“Your butt is mine
Gonna tell you right
Just show your face
In broad daylight”
Michael Jackson (1958–2009) American singer, songwriter and dancer
Bad (1987)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–1791) Austrian Romantic composer
Letter to Leopold Mozart (Mannheim, 2 February 1778), from The letters of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, 1769-1791, translated, from the collection of Ludwig Nohl, by Lady [Grace] Wallace (Oxford University Press, 1865, digitized 2006) vol. I, # 91 (p. 164) http://books.google.com/books?vid=0SGwLiCNxu7qZ5ch&id=KEgBAAAAQAAJ&printsec=titlepage&dq=%22The+letters+of+Wolfgang+Amadeus+Mozart,+1769-1791%22&hl=en#PRA1-PA164,M1
Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936) English short-story writer, poet, and novelist
Prelude, Stanza 1.
Departmental Ditties and other Verses (1886)
Elvis Presley (1935–1977) American singer and actor
You'll Be Gone, written by Elvis Presley, Red West and Charlie Hodge (1961)
Song lyrics
Fernando Pessoa (1888–1935) Portuguese poet, writer, literary critic, translator, publisher and philosopher
Se, depois de eu morrer, quiserem escrever a minha biografia,
Não há nada mais simples.
Tem só duas datas—a da minha nascença e a da minha morte.
Entre uma e outra coisa todos os dias são meus.
Alberto Caeiro (heteronym), "Se, depois de eu morrer" (8 November 1915), trans. Jonathan Griffin.
Source: Poems of Fernando Pessoa
“If you tremble with indignation at every injustice, then you are a comrade of mine.”
Ernesto Che Guevara (1928–1967) Argentine Marxist revolutionary
As quoted in The Quotable Rebel : Political Quotations for Dangerous Times (2005) by Teishan Latner, p. 112
Variant: If you tremble indignation at every injustice then you are a comrade of mine.
“The sunflower is mine, in a way.”
Vincent Van Gogh (1853–1890) Dutch post-Impressionist painter (1853-1890)
Charles Manson (1934–2017) American criminal and musician
Interview https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9g-U2-cAUMM
“Opinions are like orgasms… mine matters most and I really don’t care if you have one.”
Sylvia Plath (1932–1963) American poet, novelist and short story writer
“If guns cause crime, all of mine are defective.”
Ted Nugent (1948) American rock musician
Source: God, Guns & Rock'N'Roll
“Maybe my passion is nothing special, but at least it's mine.”
Tove Jansson (1914–2001) Finnish children's writer and illustrator
Source: Travelling Light
Hubert Selby Jr. Requiem for a Dream
Source: Requiem for a Dream
“I didn't lose my mind,
it was mine to give away”
Robbie Williams (1974) British singer and entertainer
“It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important.”
Arthur Conan Doyle book The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes
Source: The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes
“I will fight for your right to be weird- just as I know you will fight for mine.”
Hunter S. Thompson (1937–2005) American journalist and author
Joseph Louis Lagrange (1736–1813) Italian mathematician and mathematical physicist
Letter to d'Alembert (1781) cited in R. Laubenbacher, D. Pengelly: Mathematical Expeditions: Chronicles by the Explorers (1999) Springer, pp. 233–234.
Neil Armstrong (1930–2012) American astronaut; first person to walk on the moon
First On The Moon : A Voyage with Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins, Edwin E Aldrin, Jr. (1970) edited by Gene Farmer and Dora Jane Hamblin, p. 113, states of this: "Like many a quote which gets printed once and therefore enshrined in the libraries of all newspapers and magazines, this particular one was erroneous. Neil recalled having heard the quote, and he even recalled having repeated it once. He did not subscribe to its thesis, however, and he only quoted it so that he could disagree with it."
Misattributed
Benito Mussolini (1883–1945) Duce and President of the Council of Ministers of Italy. Leader of the National Fascist Party and subsequen…
As quoted in Talks with Mussolini, Emil Ludwig, Boston, MA, Little, Brown and Company (1933), pp. 153-154, Interview took place between March 23 and April 4, 1932
1930s
Taylor Swift (1989) American singer-songwriter
Everything Has Changed, written by Taylor Swift and Ed Sheeran.
Song lyrics, Red (2012)
John Green book The Fault in Our Stars
A desert blessing, an ocean curse. What else? She is so beautiful. You don’t get tired of looking at her. You never worry if she is smarter than you: You know she is. She is funny without ever being mean. I love her. I am so lucky to love her, Van Houten. You don’t get to choose if you get hurt in this world, old man, but you do have some say in who hurts you. I like my choices. I hope she likes hers."
Augustus "Gus" Waters, p. 310-313
The Fault in Our Stars (2012)
In a Market Dimly Lit.
Brother, Sister (2006)
Joaquin Phoenix (1974) American actor, music video director, producer, musician, and social activist
" Fake leather please! http://www.dnaindia.com/entertainment/report_fake-leather-please_1064075". Interview for Daily News and Analysis. November 14, 2006.
John Trudell (1946–2015) Native American rights activist, musician, poet
Columbus Day Speech, San Francisco (1992)
Johnny Cash (1932–2003) American singer-songwriter
From "Ragged Old Flag" on The Great Lost Performance
James Brown (1933–2006) American singer, songwriter, musician, and recording artist
"Being James Brown," Rolling Stone Magazine, 2006-06-12.
Jennifer Aniston (1969) television and film actress from the United States
Interview for Vogue magazine (December 2008)
Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–1895) English biologist and comparative anatomist
1860s, On a Piece of Chalk (1868)
“Brahms' Variations are better than mine, but mine were written before his.”
Franz Liszt (1811–1886) Hungarian romantic composer and virtuoso pianist
As quoted in Arthur Friedheim and Alexander Siloti, Remembering Franz Liszt (1961) p. 138.
Zeno of Elea (-490–-425 BC) ancient Greek philosopher, mostly known for his eponym paradoxes
As quoted in Parmenides by Plato, a portrayal of a discussion which begins between Socrates and Zeno, and then primarily Parmenides; as translated by Benjamin Jowett, Parmenides (1871)
My writing is an answer to the partisans of the many and it returns their attack with interest, with a view to showing that the hypothesis of the many, if examined sufficiently in detail, leads to even more ridiculous results than the hypothesis of the One.
As translated in A History of Philosophy, Vol. I : Greece and Rome (1953) by Frederick Charles Copleston.
Context: The truth is, that these writings of mine were meant to protect the arguments of Parmenides against those who make fun of him and seek to show the many ridiculous and contradictory results which they suppose to follow from the affirmation of the one. My answer is addressed to the partisans of the many, whose attack I return with interest by retorting upon them that their hypothesis of the being of many, if carried out, appears to be still more ridiculous than the hypothesis of the being of one. Zeal for my master led me to write the book in the days of my youth, but some one stole the copy; and therefore I had no choice whether it should be published or not; the motive, however, of writing, was not the ambition of an elder man, but the pugnacity of a young one.
Benjamin Disraeli (1804–1881) British Conservative politician, writer, aristocrat and Prime Minister
Source: Speech in the House of Lords on the agricultural depression (29 April 1879), reported in The Times (30 April 1879), p. 8
Rachel Scott (1981–1999) American murder victim
Source: "May 4, 98" https://66.media.tumblr.com/7f99426ff633f0e174ad13f215dc6b85/tumblr_phql76LS101v18yoxo1_1280.png (4 May 1998)
“Sorry I didn't save the world, my friend
I was too busy buildin' mine again
I choose me, I'm sorry”
Kendrick Lamar (1987) American rapper, songwriter and record producer from California
Mirror
Song lyrics, Mr. Morale & the Big Steppers (2022)
“I think we have different value systems." —Arthur
"Well mine's better." —Ford”
Douglas Adams book Mostly Harmless
Source: Mostly Harmless
Mark Twain (1835–1910) American author and humorist
“Osteopathy” (1901), in Mark Twain's Speeches, p. 253 http://books.google.com/books?id=jmhaAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA253&dq=%22Whose+property+is+my+body%22 <br class="br">Source: Letters from the Earth: Uncensored Writings
Bertrand Russell (1872–1970) logician, one of the first analytic philosophers and political activist
“Truth sits upon the lips of dying men,
And falsehood, while I lived, was far from mine.”
Matthew Arnold Sohrab and Rustum
"Sohrab and Rustum" (1853), lines 656-657