Quotes About Self-sufficiency

I think one thing that kids who grow up on farms really have going for them is they have exposure to death and birth in a totally different way. I think it takes away a little bit of the mystery and a little bit of the fear, and I do wish I had that. And I wish I was able to grow my own food.

A person who requires others to fill in happiness in their lives or solely depends on others to full-fill their needs is a sign of a weak person.

At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in every conflict and every perplexity: that one is alone. That isn't as bad as it may first appear; and again it is the best thing in life that each should have everything in himself; his fate, his future, his whole expanse and world.

The basis of good manners is self-reliance.

Don't ask for guarantees. And don't look to be saved in any one thing, person, machine, or library. Do your own bit of saving, and if you drown, at least die knowing you were heading for shore.

Never count on anybody for too much.

I don't care what other people are doing.

I'm my own person, and am trying to carve out a career on my own.

I was not someone who participated in other people's castles.

A cat only has itself.

In the summer, 80 per cent of what I eat comes from my allotment. I grow everything from beetroots and leeks to apples and plums.

I grew up in rural Arkansas, and I'm afraid that begging is not part of our characteristics.

I ain't going to chase someone around. I ain't going to talk about someone that ain't talking about me.

I'm not Cinderella.

My whole thing is I'm not into civilization as a whole.

I would want people to be their own superheroes, save their own days, know that nobody else is gonna do it for you. You have to pick yourself up out of your dark moment; you gotta be your own source of light, just like I was for me.

Actually going to the supermarket to get my own groceries was a revelation. I'd never had to fill the fridge before, do my laundry, put petrol in my car. It was scary - but there was a kind of joy about it, too.

I have few friends. I can count them on one hand. I go by myself to the cleaners and the supermarket and I live alone with my dogs.

I don't need adult supervision.

The Negroes are facing the alternative of rising in the sphere of production to supply their proportion of the manufacturers and merchants or of going down to the graves of paupers.

I want to create my own living space and grow my own food instead of paying someone to supply those for me.

I have long said that America needs to have a self-sufficient pharmaceutical supply chain to ensure we have safe and accessible access to our medications, and I am proud to be taking action on this issue as a Member of Congress.

The only way to support a revolution is to make your own.

He who can not support himself, can not take his own decision.