Owe

Famous quotes containing the word owe:

    To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth.
    Voltaire [François Marie Arouet] (1694–1778)

    The Galilean is not a favourite of mine. So far from owing him any thanks for his favour, I cannot avoid confessing that I owe a secret grudge to his carpentership.
    Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822)

    I owe everything to a system that made me learn by heart till I wept. As a result I have thousands of lines of poetry by heart. I owe everything to this.
    George Steiner (b. 1929)