Quotes About Self-sufficiency

I wanted to pursue my own thing - I had desires, ideas I wanted to accomplish, and I needed to be on my own for that.

Put paying your dues and all that puts so much into being a success. You have an understanding of what it's about, being on your own for three or four years and living day to day on $3, or living in an apartment with no electricity.

I built my first flat. I had to, I was going to run out of money badly.

I live by myself. I come in the door, I can throw my stuff on the floor. I can leave the dishes.

When I first came into the league, I followed my parents for everything. Now, I'm really doing stuff on my own.

I don't want followers.

I never found anyone who could look after me as well as I could look after myself.

The world can only be free when men are content in themselves and each draws from his own fountain.

Never sell, never franchise.

I can live without bread, but I can't live without freedom.

Why would I want a place of my own? Then I would have to things worry about, like doing laundry and having food in the fridge.

I've got a bread maker, so sometimes I make my own. That's what's lovely about not working full-time: I can bake bread.

My mother always says people should be able to take care of themselves, even if they're rich and important.

I lack nothing. I only needed myself.

when you've been in this world for thirty years and had to make your way on your own, as has been my lot, you get hardened to surprises and don't take them too seriously.

my cold, hardly disguised, indestructible, childishly helpless to the point of being ridiculous, brutishly self-satisfied indifference, the indifference of a self-sufficient but coldly imaginative child, I have never found anywhere else; to be sure, it was here too the only protection against a nervous breakdown brought on by fear and a sense of guilt. All that occupied my mind was concern for myself, and this in various ways.

You don't need a pack of wild horses to learn how to make a sandwich.

Laura Ingalls Wilder's 'Little House' series is a national treasure, beloved by generations. But what I love most is the peek it provides into the planting, harvesting, hunting, and preparing of the foods that America's settler families ate in the late 1800s.

Humans are the big thing that cause damage in life - in war or whatever - and if I can get away from that and into a wilderness situation, I'm OK. You can more or less live on your own merit.

I think Mr. Wilson will have to be the rest of the way alone.

We were far from being the kind of band that threw TVs out of hotel windows. In fact, we carried our own toolbox with us so that if anything got broken, we could nail it back together and not be charged for it.

I'm not a Luddite, but I'm outside more than I'm on my computer. We have a micro-farm - it's a step up from a garden. We have a pretty extensive vineyard. We grow about 60 percent of our own food, make our own wine, have chickens for eggs.

We had our wheat. We made our own olive oil. We made our wine. We had chickens, ducks; we had sheep, cows, milk. So I was raised in a very simple situation but understanding really food from the ground... the essence of food and the flavors. And those memories I took with me, and I think that they lingered on.

The first time I had sat down to a meal I had grown on my own, along with a bottle of wine that we had made, I burst into tears. To be in touch and be in tune with that is an extraordinary gift.