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Quotes About Dependence

Dependence is not patriotism. A man does not love his mother if he hangs about her to the point of burdening her with a weak, feckless son.
~ Maria Montessori
Dependence is misery. Independence is happiness.
~ Swami Vivekananda
The effective leader recognizes that she is more dependent on her people than they are on her. Walk softly.
~ Brian Tracy
We profoundly regret the suffering this has caused our fans, our business partners and the thousands of people who depend on our industry for their livelihoods.
~ Gary Bettman
If you play the very subtle jazz tunes with acoustic pianos, acoustic bass and it's a dead standard, you are going to play very differently. It depends on the music.
~ Lee Ritenour
Water and air, the two essential fluids on which all life depends, have become global garbage cans.
~ Jacques-Yves Cousteau
We can do nothing ourselves; God must do it. To speak to Him thus is easier by nature for woman than for man because a natural desire lives in her to give herself completely to someone.
~ Edith Stein
We are dependent on the power of God to convert us and give faith in Jesus Christ and the new nature.
~ Jonathan Edwards
In fighting nature, man can win every battle except the last. If he should win that too, he will perish, like an embryo cutting its own umbilical cord.
~ Thor Heyerdahl
We depend on nature. Now, nature's depending on us.
~ Ian Somerhalder
Things derive their being and nature by mutual dependence and are nothing in themselves.
~ Akkineni Nagarjuna
Thus nature has no love for solitude, and always leans, as it were, on some support; and the sweetest support is found in the most intimate friendship.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
Everything that depends on the action of nature is by nature as good as it can be.
~ Aristotle
Ultimately, the human being is in the mercy of nature.
~ Dalai Lama
Having rationally endeavored to control nature, is he not now becoming the slave of the objects which he makes?
~ Pope Paul VI
We have lost sight of the dependence we have on nature in economics
~ Tony Juniper
We understand that we must make peace with nature - that our lives depend on it.
~ Sylvia Earle
As expected, you get his machine. Someday, even the "call of nature" will be answered by a machine.
~ Tom Robbins
He had drawn a derogatory statement from George. He felt safe now.
~ John Steinbeck
Men have two greatest fears: the first fear is the fear of being needed, and the second fear is the fear of not being needed.
~ C. JoyBell C.
A bird will only eat from a hand it trusts.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
..So neither he who plants nor he who waters is anything, but only God, who makes things grow. 1 Corinthians 3:7
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
...a man's blood soon runs cold where there is no one around to warm it up.
~ Anonymous, Go Ask Alice
Human beings wear clothing and walk upright, but when you take that away, we're nothing but monkeys.
~ Osamu Tezuka, Ode to Kirihito