Quotes About Freedom

I'm free to give my love, but you're not the one I'm thinking of.

For me the dream is the freedom to make all the crazy ideas I have in my head into movies. I truly love directing and I think it is a privilege to have this as an occupation.

It takes more than wings to release one from the bonds of kinship.

Everyone has the right to be who they are

it is an undeniable fact that, in organizing, petitioning, and speaking out to free the slaves, American women learned how to free themselves.

Who knows what women can be when they are finally free to become themselves?

She was, after all, an American woman, an irreversible product of a culture that stops just short of giving her a separate identity. He was, after all, an American man whose respect for individuality and freedom of choice are his nation's pride.

It seemed to me that a great many fences had been put up all over the world, in the long course of history, that were not necessary. Fences round nations, fences round property. They were supposed to be symbols of security, but they were cheating symbols. They had a precisely opposite effect from that which was intended. They did not prevent crime, they incited it; they led not to peace but to war. A world without fences would be a better world.

There is something dead about a lawn which has never been shadowed by the swift silhouette of a dancing kitten.

Ride em, cowgirl,' he said. And she did.

What's the use of having a motorcycle if you can't go tearing around staying out late?" Ralph asked reasonably.

Ramona wished she could run, run, run out of that classroom as she had the day before and never come back.

She felt good from making a lot of noise, she felt good from the hard work from walking so far in her tin can stilts, she felt good from calling a grown-up pieface and from the triumph of singing backwards from ninety-nine to one. She felt good from being out after dark with the rain on her face and the streetlights shining down on her.

Never mind the danger, never mind what his mother thought. This was living. This was what he wanted to do. On and on and on.

I grew up before there were strict leash laws

Even if all I did was stay away... it's still the best thing I ever did in my life.

I wanted to quit and to do this forever, sleep in a bed and in a tent, see what was over the next hill and never see a hill again. All of this all at once, every moment, on the trail or off.

There is something about the momentum of travel that makes you want to just keep moving, to never stop.

To my surprise, I felt a certain springy keenness. I was ready to hike. I had waited months for this day, after all, even if it had been mostly with foreboding. I wanted to see what was out there. All over America today people would be dragging themselves to work, stuck in traffic jams, wreathed in exhaust smoke. I was going for a walk in the woods. I was more than ready for this.

Italians are entirely without any commitment to order. They live their lives in a kind of pandemonium, which I find very attractive.

You have no engagements, commitments, obligations, or duties; no special ambitions and only the smallest, least complicated of wants; you exist in a tranquil tedium, serenely beyond the reach of exasperation, "far removed from the seats of strife," as the early explorer and botanist William Bartram put it. All that is required of you is a willingness to trudge.

A filmmaker named Robert Goldstein was imprisoned for showing the British in a bad light in a movie about the American War of Independence.

It seemed such an extraordinary notion—that I could set off from home and walk 1,800 miles through woods to Georgia, or turn the other way and clamber over the rough and stony White Mountains to the fabled prow of Mount Katahdin, floating in forest 450 miles to the north in a wilderness few have seen. A little voice in my head said: "Sounds neat! Let's do it!

Traveling is more fun—hell, life is more fun—if you can treat it as a series of impulses.