Quotes About Freedom

Faith as assensus is "relatively impotent, relatively powerless. You can believe all the right things and still be in bondage.

We are all here for some special reason. Stop being a prisoner of your past. Become the architect of your future.

It had been so many years since Charlotte had experienced the sensation of being held in someone's arms. But tonight, between the music and the moon and the unaccountable black magic of the Southern air, she was embraced in the spirit of everything that was good in this world. And she felt free.

Never be a prisoner of your past. Become the architect of you future. You will never be the same.

Fundamentalists are to Christianity what paint-by-numbers is to art.

I love my country too, and its hopes for freedom and justice. But the boundaries of what I honor are bigger than the republic. Let us pledge reciprocity with the living world.

it's not exactly liberty if they force you to say it, is it?

A bay is a noun only if water is dead. When bay is a noun, it is defined by humans, trapped between its shores and contained by the word. But the verb wiikwegamaa—to be a bay—releases the water from bondage and lets it live.

celebrate my freedom rather than mourn my loss.

It is the fundamental unfairness of parenthood that if we do our jobs well, the deepest bond we are given will walk out the door with a wave over the shoulder. We get good training along the way. We learn to say "Have a great time, sweetie" while we are longing to pull them back to safety. And against all the evolutionary imperatives of protecting our gene pool, we give them car keys. And freedom. It's our job. And I wanted to be a good mother.

The very last adler leans away from the thread of the trail, as if to set me free.

You could smell ripe strawberries before you saw them, the fragrance mingling with the smell of sun on damp ground. It was the smell of June, the last day of school, when we were set free, and the Strawberry Moon, ode'mini-giizis.

Like the young of every species they escape the restrictions of their elders and seek out the freedom of the wide-open spaces.

Seagulls... slim yachts of the element.

"Keep clear of the dupes that talk democracyAnd the dogs that talk revolution,Drunk with talk, liars and believers.I believe in my tusks.Long live freedom and damn the ideologies,"Said the gamey black-maned wild boarTusking the turf on Mal Paso Mountain.

Keep clear of the dupes that talk democracy and the dogs that talk revolution, drunk with talk, liars and believers. I believe in my tusks. Long live freedom and damn the ideologies," said the gamey black-maned wild boar tusking the turf on Mal Paso Mountain.

to Maxfield to get away from the crap I'd put up with all my life in lousy schools. I wasn't going to let a couple

Just living is not enough... One must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower. —Hans Christian Andersen

Our children are not our possessions, Nora. They're loaned to us to raise and to be set free. From the time he could look up, he was determined to fly high and fast.

A very important part of creating a new life was independence. She did not want to be accountable to anyone but herself.

I have no intention of being reckless," she said. "I just don't want to waste away in a lab or library while life goes on around me.

I don't get the big deal myself. If you can die for your country at eighteen, why not have a beer?

originally walked away from material possessions because I felt the weight of them dragging me down. Now I don't own anything I can't afford to lose because I don't want to die one day trying to protect something I never should've cared about in the first place.

Not to mention there are at least seven locks between you and the outside world. First lock is on your cell door. Get by