Quotes about mine
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F. Scott Fitzgerald photo
Toni Morrison photo
Suzanne Collins photo

“." And now, you are forever mine.”

Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo

Source: Magic Bites

Mark Strand photo

“Ink runs from the corners of my mouth.
There is no happiness like mine.
I have been eating poetry.”

Mark Strand (1934–2014) Canadian-American poet, essayist, translator

Source: Selected Poems

Melissa de la Cruz photo
Nicholas Sparks photo
Nicholas Sparks photo
Jenny Han photo

“The future is unclear. But it’s still mine.”

Jenny Han (1980) American writer

Source: It's Not Summer Without You

Richelle Mead photo
Julio Cortázar photo
Margaret Atwood photo
David Bowie photo
Haruki Murakami photo
Graham Greene photo
Marcus Tullius Cicero photo

“All that's mine I carry with me.”
Omnia mea mecum porto.

Marcus Tullius Cicero (-106–-43 BC) Roman philosopher and statesman

Tudo que é meu eu carrego comigo.

Anthony Trollope photo

“Don't let love interfere with your appetite. It never does with mine.”

Source: Barchester Towers (1857), Ch. 38

Frank Miller photo
Sylvia Day photo
Sylvia Day photo
Richelle Mead photo
Suzanne Collins photo
Cassandra Clare photo
Yehuda Amichai photo

“Punch any of mine, and I’ll break your arm off and beat you to death with it.”

Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo

Source: Magic Breaks

Joss Whedon photo
Susan Elizabeth Phillips photo

“If I could put my brain in her body, the world would be mine for the taking.”

Susan Elizabeth Phillips (1948) American writer

Source: Match Me If You Can

“I'll call you mine.”

Maya Banks (1964) Author

Sweet Persuasion

Henry Fielding photo
Sarah Dessen photo
Jane Austen photo
Billy Joel photo
James Baldwin photo
Emily Brontë photo
Tom Robbins photo
John Milton photo
Diana Gabaldon photo
Richard Siken photo
Thomas Hardy photo
Karen Marie Moning photo
Franz Kafka photo
John Irving photo
A.E. Housman photo

“Well, check this out. Mine is bigger.”

Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo

Source: Magic Bleeds

Anne Lamott photo
Jonathan Safran Foer photo
Charles Bukowski photo

“Mine,… Mine is what she is.”

Source: Silver Borne

Thomas Jefferson photo

“He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me.”

Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826) 3rd President of the United States of America

1810s
Source: Selected Writings
Context: It is agreed by those who have seriously considered the subject, that no individual has, of natural right, a separate property in an acre of land, for instance. By an universal law, indeed, whatever, whether fixed or movable, belongs to all men equally and in common, is the property for the moment of him who occupies it, but when he relinquishes the occupation, the property goes with it. Stable ownership is the gift of social law, and is given late in the progress of society. It would be curious then, if an idea, the fugitive fermentation of an individual brain, could, of natural right, be claimed in exclusive and stable property. If nature has made any one thing less susceptible than all others of exclusive property, it is the action of the thinking power called an idea, which an individual may exclusively possess as long as he keeps it to himself; but the moment it is divulged, it forces itself into the possession of every one, and the receiver cannot dispossess himself of it. Its peculiar character, too, is that no one possesses the less, because every other possesses the whole of it. He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me.

Letter to Isaac McPherson http://press-pubs.uchicago.edu/founders/documents/a1_8_8s12.html (13 August 1813) ME 13:333.
The sentence He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me. is sometimes paraphrased as "Knowledge is like a candle. Even as it lights a new candle, the strength of the original flame is not diminished."

Robert Burton photo
Bret Easton Ellis photo
Meg Cabot photo
L. Frank Baum photo

“If your heads were stuffed with straw, like mine, you would probably all live in the beautiful places, and then Kansas would have no people at all. It is fortunate for Kansas that you have brains.”

Source: The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900)
Context: The Scarecrow listened carefully, and said, "I cannot understand why you should wish to leave this beautiful country and go back to the dry, gray place you call Kansas."
"That is because you have no brains" answered the girl. "No matter how dreary and gray our homes are, we people of flesh and blood would rather live there than in any other country, be it ever so beautiful. There is no place like home."
The Scarecrow sighed.
"Of course I cannot understand it," he said. "If your heads were stuffed with straw, like mine, you would probably all live in the beautiful places, and then Kansas would have no people at all. It is fortunate for Kansas that you have brains."

Kim Harrison photo

“I cannot stay," he lied for me, eyes averted. "I'm only going to be here for a time, then leave you." His gaze met mine. "And I will cry when I go, because I could love you forever.”

Kim Harrison (1966) Pseudonym

Variant: I'm only going to be here for a time, then leave you." His gaze met mine. "And I will cry when I go, because I could love you forever.
Source: Black Magic Sanction

Terry Goodkind photo

“Once you teach me something, it's mine to use.”

Source: Wizard's First Rule

Paulo Coelho photo

“You're mine, Savannah.”

Playing to Win

Umberto Eco photo
David Levithan photo
Alethea Kontis photo
Dave Barry photo
John Keats photo
Meg Cabot photo
Charles Baudelaire photo
Sarah Dessen photo
Stephen King photo

“If,' Roland said. 'An old teacher of mine used to call it the only word a thousand letters long.”

Stephen King (1947) American author

Source: Wolves of the Calla

Cassandra Clare photo
Alberto Manguel photo
Joseph Conrad photo
Charles Bukowski photo

“each man's hell is in a different place:
mine is just up and behind
my ruined face.”

Charles Bukowski (1920–1994) American writer

Variant: each man's hell is in a different
place: mine is just up and
behind
my ruined
face.
--from Let's Make a Deal
Source: You Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense

Philippa Gregory photo
James Frey photo
James Thurber photo

“We all have faults, mine is being wicked.”

James Thurber (1894–1961) American cartoonist, author, journalist, playwright
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley photo
Cassandra Clare photo
Roald Dahl photo

“We all have our moments of brilliance and glory, and this was mine.”

Source: Boy: Tales of Childhood

P.G. Wodehouse photo
John F. Kennedy photo
Jodi Picoult photo
Denis Diderot photo
Brian K. Vaughan photo
Bob Dylan photo

“Beauty walks a razor's edge, someday I'll make it mine.”

Bob Dylan (1941) American singer-songwriter, musician, author, and artist

Song lyrics, Blood on the Tracks (1975), Shelter from the Storm

Richelle Mead photo

“I shot up, now as angry and frusterated as him. I had a feeling if i stayed, we'd both snap. In and undertone, I murmured,"this isnt over. i won't give up on you."
" I've given up on you,"he said back, voice also soft. "Love fades. Mine has.”

Variant: Rose. Please stop. Please stay away."
[... ]
In an undertone, I murmured, "This isn't over. I won't give up on you."
"I've given up on you," he said back, voice also soft. "Love fades. Mine has.
Source: Spirit Bound