Quotes About Freedom

Poetry must have something in it that is barbaric, vast and wild.

I am struck by the wild character of this land and, as the Kazak herders often do, I have the urge to sing.

When I got to New York, I immediately ran like a wild child to Central Park to touch the trees. I am like an animal about trees. I must be near them.

I now walk into the wild.

Back in medieval times, Victorian repression hadn't come in yet. People were bawdy and wild and more in touch with their true natures. If you look at the Bosch paintings or Bruegel, you see, when people are dancing, they're totally cutting loose.

I had no shortage of wild times in my youth.

The inner artist is not the voice of reason. The inner artist can have wild and impossible ideas... The inner artist is not the voice of comfort.

Before my marriage, I was really wild, and I was very open about it. My wife knows about it. From the age of 19 to 30, I was this mad, wild person. I just wanted to have a good time, not get serious with anyone. I didn't allow relationships to happen, and I made it clear to whoever I was with.

There's always going to be the market for people who are known to have led wild and crazy lives.

I think Lincoln had a unique parenting style. He let his kids run free and wild.

Sendak's 1963 classic 'Where The Wild Things Are' has long been a favorite of mine because of the creative imagery, fantastic adventures and, most of all, because of how this timeless story shows us that children need to be free to roam, explore and invent in order to understand their place in the world that surrounds them.

What I remember the most really was just running wild there. Barefooted, swimming in dirty lakes, selling fruit, picking mango trees, hoping not to get caught because they don't take kindly to thieves in Africa.

In other words, I wouldn't like to be an actor if I could only be real. I like to get wild, behaviorally wild, and it's crazy to think of any form where it's just one way.

There was definitely a wild side to me that couldn't run free growing up in England.

I think couldn't not make a song called 'Wild Boy' and not be a wild boy.

Then as I got older, I always gravitated towards the hard stuff, Born To Be Wild, then Black Sabbath.

I was raised a Roman Catholic and had to go to the eight o'clock Mass every morning and have communion and wear a tie, kind of like a restricted life style. Then in the '60s, we got wild and let it go and started looking in other places to see where God really was, and I came back to the Christian thing.

I was a sloppy kid, wanted to be just wild.

My friends and I were wild and we liked to joy-ride.

For me writing is that place where I can escape; it's where I let my thoughts run wild.

I had a bad time in school in the first grade. Because I had been a rather lonely child on a farm, but I was free and wild and to be shut up in a classroom - there were 40 children on those days in the classroom, and it was quite a shock.

It's beautiful being out in the wild.

The world of the flapper - live free, wild and young - that energy is intoxicating. It's nice to inject that into the more controlled 'Downton' way of living.

Every child in America fantasizes about running wild in the White House for a few minutes.